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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 ...

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

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...

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...

up in court. This paper considers two cases in which students are involved. Discussion The first case is Safford Unified School D...

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

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

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...

It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...

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...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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