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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...

the country based on more equality, not further separation (Lewin, 2002). Russia at this times was quite literally in "the thro...

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

much in love, and neither of them is going to stray from the marriage during their separation. Well also imagine that at the time ...

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

them with a spirit of determination and adventure. During the first few weeks, an excess of 20,000 men volunteered to serve and u...

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

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

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

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

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

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

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

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

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

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...

film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...

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...

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...

tanks as well, but the paper is too short. There are of course many other possibilities such as small arms, nuclear weapons, and...

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

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

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...

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

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