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It was a conflict that brought low men of noble and nefarious intentions alike. From Huy Fong to Hanoi to Ho Chin Minh City, the streets of this once peaceful and agrarian nation flowed red with the blood of countless casualties, each one a stark sacrifice to the forces of global politics that drove the conflict from President Kennedy's early forays into this jungle land. Hopeful of stopping a Soviet empire whose expansion threaten America's security to the escalation of LBJ, the carnage of the Nixon years and, finally, the humiliation of retreat under President Ford. The Vietnam War to find the historical memory of an entire generation. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Philip Really The Met, located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States and among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. There is also a much smaller second location at the Cloisters in upper Manhattan that features medieval art represented in the permanent collection are works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art.