YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Veteran of the Vietnam Wars Perspectives
Essays 121 - 150
to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...
Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...
a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...
could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...
war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...
Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...
up in court. This paper considers two cases in which students are involved. Discussion The first case is Safford Unified School D...
Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...
of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...
coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...
last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...
national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...
elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
U.S. Army as well as civilian agencies support the South Vietnamese (1998). His analysis is intricate and political, suggesting th...
end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...
Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...
the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...
readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...
two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....
to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...