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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...

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...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...

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

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

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

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

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

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

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...