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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

This research paper pertains to two ancient world leaders, Qin Shuhuangdi, First Emperor to China, and Ramses II, Pharaoh of Egypt...

defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...

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

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...

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...

under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...

In five pages this essay considers women's pivotal role in the Vietnam War and its impact. Four sources are cited in the bibliogr...

machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...

who were interviewing members of Charlie Company. Simpson had taken part in the massacre at My Lai in March 1968; his subsequent l...

States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...

do with war strategy-which was a total failure of U.S. leadership. In the end, the bombing campaigns served to decimate land and v...

In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...

7,000 men a month virtually indefinitely. Political cadres won support from, or at least neutralized, the Southern peasantry. Weak...

the U.S. Army off for two years with bows and arrows. (60) These lessons from history were largely ignored. American involvement...

bags of whatever soldiers werent forever-missing P.O.W.s. I have learned from the readings that the war, in retrospect, was a terr...

This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...

In a paper consisting of five pages the effects of the Cold War in America are considered and include the atomic bombing of Hirosh...

In a paper that consists of five pages the changes that followed the Second World War in terms of economic, military, and diplomat...

that followed (RCAH). While the United States was very much involved in the conflict, purportedly to keep peace in the world by ta...