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claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...

played on only a few decades ago. More automation, faster communications and a global outlook have increased the need for leaders ...

strongly established. This would leave no room for the evolution of a strong nation that would survive. Poma notes, "Boys got thei...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

probably resulted in more long-term and far-reaching socio-political and socio-cultural consequences than any other war in history...

the market; that is, they stop opening them when there are so many that they cant draw enough customers to stay in business. The s...

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

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

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...

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

a militia. The brilliance of this man is exemplified in such simple matters as this, but his activity is based on character as wel...

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...

in the sixties all the way back to that earlier decade noting: "The 1920s marked...

and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...