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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...

last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...

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

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

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...

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

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

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 ...

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...

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

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

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...

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

but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...

lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

Or, in more general terms, how could the violence been ended in Vietnam? To speculate on how the violence could have ended or to...

They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...

-- the Peoples Bank of China, which at one time was not only the financial institution of the country, but also served as the cent...

industry wide. Under NAFTA, North American resources, such as land, labor, capital and technology, would be utilized more effecti...

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

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

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

used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...

evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...

Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...

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...