Just as in the U.S., most people living in Vietnam today were born
after 1975. That year marked the end of the devastating two-decade war
that ravaged that land and its population. But the people and government
of today's modernized nation of Vietnam maintain a strong commitment
across generations to caring for the war's survivors.
According to Pham Minh Huan, Vice Minister of Vietnam's Ministry of
Labor - Invalids (Disabled) and Social Affairs (MOLISA), the country
spends 25 percent of its national budget providing pensions and social
services to the nine million people who are veterans or are the
children, wives, husbands and parents of those killed or injured in
combat during the country's long war for national liberation. The nine
million comprises nearly ten percent of the country's 95 million
population.
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