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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

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

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

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

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 ...

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...

and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...

President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...

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 ...

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...

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...