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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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

the two powers for years to come (Elbaum, 2004). In April, Peng Zhen was purged and in the months coming, Mao and the PLA took s...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

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...

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 ...

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

American involvement in Vietnam has had a long and complex history. The question of why the US was...

Introduction The Vietnam War was a very chaotic time. Many argue that the war was never a war that could have been won by the Uni...