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could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...

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

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...

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

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

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 ...

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

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...

In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...

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...

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...

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

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