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

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

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

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

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

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

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...

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 ...

national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...

In five pages the Howitzer's role in contemporary warfare dating back to the Vietnam War is examined in an evolution that includes...

fierce protection of ancestral land was nothing new to the people trapped in between warring factions. The names given geographic...

A 5 page overview the fictional tale of the Vietnam War by James Webb. The young protaganist is a Marine hero. 1 source....

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...

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...

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

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