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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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

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

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...

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...

a force generated by a small group of people who are passionate in their beliefs. Through this groups passion and efforts, changes...

end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

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

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

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

to set the record straight. There were stories coming out claiming how bad American troops were in Vietnam. This infuriated me. ...

This paper discusses how the Vietnam War fighting and wartime atrocities represented Geneva Convention violations in eight pages. ...

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

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...

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

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

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