This is a damn interesting article in the International Herald Tribune about the Hmong soldiers that fought on the American side during the Vietnam war, and their situation as of today, over 30 years past. They are still being hunted like fugitives in the jungles of Laos, and are pleading for help from the Americans, which is still an open question.

A little bit from wikipedia will tell us a bit more about the Hmong’s efforts:

"In the early 1960s, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began to recruit the indigenous Hmong people in Laos to join fighting the Vietnam War, named as a Special Guerrilla Unit [...] Over 80% of the Hmong men in Laos were recruited by the CIA to join fighting for the U.S. Secret War in Laos. The CIA used the Special Guerrilla Unit as the counter attack unit to block the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the main military supply route from the north to the south. Hmong soldiers put their lives at risk in the frontline fighting for the United States to block the supply line and to rescue downed American pilots [...] more than 40,000 Hmong were killed in the frontline, countless men were missing in action, thousands more were injured and disabled."

No wars are just “over”, It’s not like a football game. Or binary.