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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 ...

prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...

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...

bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...

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...

well to take a broad perspective not only on the countrys recent economic development but also the constraints which might affect ...

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...

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

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...

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...

have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...

this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...

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

the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...

Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...

"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...

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

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...

two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

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

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

earth. It was this antagonistic attitude that only served to fuel Ho Chi Minhs desire to ward off foreign domination and American...