One of the many results of America pulling out of Vietnam, due to US public opinion created by the MSM, is something I've always had a hard time realizing and our media TOTALLY ignored it. The slaughter of S Vietnamese... it's as if they didn't ever exist at all. Hundreds of thousands just slaughtered. And... after all they had been through... the vets knew it and could do nothing. They were being sent home... to a sometimes hostile reception by spitting nitwits who would eventually become college professors. Ah..America.
I don't know how old you are but putting the blame for US public's anti-war sentiment on the media is only barely accurate. Any 18 yo HS senior in 1967-1972 knew kids just a year or two older who were maimed or killed before reaching twenty. Their mothers all knew mothers who lost sons in VN. And both groups knew that even a little money or influence kept you safe. The poor and the working class (America was a country full of Blue Collar workers then) were paying the price in a big way while the middle and wealthy classes were able to avoid most of the loss. The truth about America during that war is that if you were unlucky enough to have a brother/son/yourself sent to fight or eligible to be drafted then the war consumed your family. If you did not, then the war barely made it to your screen. A mother burying her 19 year old son and looking at two more coming up didn't need Peter Jennings to tell her something was seriously wrong.