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to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...
have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...
the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...
ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...
eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...
together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...
as walking, so the theory is that he entered North America using the shortest and easiest route which would have been the land mas...
which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...
and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...
human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...
in the sixties all the way back to that earlier decade noting: "The 1920s marked...
a militia. The brilliance of this man is exemplified in such simple matters as this, but his activity is based on character as wel...
include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...
Or, in more general terms, how could the violence been ended in Vietnam? To speculate on how the violence could have ended or to...
They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...
lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...
bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...
but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...
of paper money, serves as banker for both the government and commercial banks, and acts as lender of last resort. The latter, in t...
readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...
Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...
Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...
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...