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

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...

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...

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...

process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...

This was a misplaced fear. Communism would fall on its own, and even if it did not, the idea that it would spread like a disease i...

serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...

immediate collapse of the Bao Dai government at the end of the war Ho Chi Minh took the reins in Vietnam. He headed up a coalitio...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

or hurt is as bad as joining with the abusers. A great deal of the damage thats done in society is done by those who only stand a...

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...