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

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

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

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 ...

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

between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...

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 ...

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...

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

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...

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 ...

of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...

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

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

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

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...

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

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

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

This was a misplaced fear. Communism would fall on its own, and even if it did not, the idea that it would spread like a disease i...

serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...

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

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...