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alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

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

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...

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

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...

American involvement in Vietnam has had a long and complex history. The question of why the US was...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

In six pages this research paper examines Dan Rather's journalistic memoir that describes his coverage of such events as President...

In ten pages this paper considers the life of controversial author and feminist Mary McCarthy in a discussion of Vietnam War, sexu...

that media during the 1960s and 1970s shifted toward "an oppositional relation to political authority" (68). Hallin uses as his ar...

In six pages this paper refers to Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America by Richard Slotkin in t...

This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...

In five pages this essay considers women's pivotal role in the Vietnam War and its impact. Four sources are cited in the bibliogr...

In five pages this paper discusses Warrior Dreams by Gibson and The End of the Victory Culture by Englehardt in a consideration of...

story "Fathering," one such child is depicted. Eng was most likely-- although not even definitely-- the daughter of an American V...

stayed and lived in the woods or changed their identities so they would not have to go home. Some returned drug addicts. Still oth...

machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...

who were interviewing members of Charlie Company. Simpson had taken part in the massacre at My Lai in March 1968; his subsequent l...

that followed (RCAH). While the United States was very much involved in the conflict, purportedly to keep peace in the world by ta...

States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...

do with war strategy-which was a total failure of U.S. leadership. In the end, the bombing campaigns served to decimate land and v...

In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...