YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Arnold Isaacs Vietnam Shadows
Essays 301 - 330
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
and parcel of continuing education. In grade school, students learn about history and geography, but it is only when they grow up ...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...
in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...
Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...
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...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...
Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...
Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...
used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...
both within the army and in the ethnic and other armed groups pitted against it" (Spaeth PG). "ASEAN and its dialogue part...
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)....
In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...
at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...
This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...
soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...
to set the record straight. There were stories coming out claiming how bad American troops were in Vietnam. This infuriated me. ...
against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...
In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...
to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...