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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...

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 ...

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...

in his introduction, "One of the paradoxes of a culture of fear is that serious problems remain widely ignored even though they gi...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...

reliability of a free market. The concept of Smiths "invisible hand" is that markets are always seeking equilibrium when it comes ...

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

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

Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...

many similarities, however, there are also many differences to take into consideration. English colonization of the so-called "N...

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

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

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...

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