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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...

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

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

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

either his parents or his country, and as he grew he took those values and opinions as his own. Having been born into a loving Ca...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

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...

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...

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...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...