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had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...