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Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...

"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...

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

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

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

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...

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

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

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

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

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

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

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...

under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...

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...

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

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

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

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

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...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

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

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...