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

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

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

"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...

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

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)....

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

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...

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

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

the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...

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

together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...

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

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