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his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....

evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...

used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...

(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

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...

between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...

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...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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

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...

well to take a broad perspective not only on the countrys recent economic development but also the constraints which might affect ...

and their determination, along with European allies, to protect other Asian nations from communism. In 1950 we see the following a...

prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...

earth. It was this antagonistic attitude that only served to fuel Ho Chi Minhs desire to ward off foreign domination and American...

Infrastructure and its importance are discussed in an overview of Vietnam's economic history in seven pages. Eight sources are ci...

about under doi moi. On the...