YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reality of the Unwinnable Vietnam War
Essays 91 - 120
early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...
to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...
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...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
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...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...
esoteric ideas as war. Being that there "isnt any Martian word for war" (Heinlein 223), Smiths inability to relate to mankinds th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...
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...
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)....
used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...
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...
readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...
"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...