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had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...

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...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...

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...

end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

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...

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...

eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...

together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...

U.S. Army as well as civilian agencies support the South Vietnamese (1998). His analysis is intricate and political, suggesting th...

President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...

to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...