regarding the war in 1970 titled Black Angels. Myths Myths play a central role in the historiography of the Vietnam War, and have become a part of the culture of the United States. Much like the general historiography of the war, discussion of myth has focused on U.S. experiences, but changing myths of war have also played a role in Vietnamese and Australian historiography. Recent scholarship has focused on "myth-busting", attacking the previous orthodox and revisionist schools of American historiography of the Vietnam War. This scholarship challenges myths about American society and soldiery in the Vietnam War. Kuzmarov in The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs challenges the popular and Hollywood narrative that US soldiers were heavy drug users, in particular the notion that the My Lai massacre was caused by drug use. According to Kuzmarov, Richard Nixon is primarily responsible for creating the drug myth. Michael Allen in Until The Last Man Comes Home also accuses Nixon of myth making, by exploiting the plight of the League of Wives of American Prisoners in Vietnam and the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia to allow the government to appear caring as the war was increasingly considered lost. Allen's analysis ties the position of potential missing or prisoner Americans into post-war politics and recent presidential elections, including the Swift boat controversy in US electoral politics. Commemoration On 25 May 2012, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation of the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. On 10 November 2017, President Donald Trump issued an additional proclamation commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. See also History of Cambodia History of Laos History of Vietnam List of conflicts in Asia Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War U.S. news media and the Vietnam War Third Indochina War Sino-Vietnamese War The Vietnam War (TV series) Soviet–Afghan War Annotations References The references for this article are grouped in three sections. Citations: references for the in-line, numbered superscript references contained within the article. Main sources: the main works used to build the content of the article, but not referenced as in-line citations. Additional sources: additional works used to build the article Citations Works cited Main sources Central Intelligence Agency. "Laos". The World Factbook. Materials related to war resistance and peace activism movements during the Vietnam War. Foreign Relations