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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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

put the machine in his place. But the machine has not always been kind to man. In fact, labor unions came into being almost as so...

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

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

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...

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

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...

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...

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

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...

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