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

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

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...

between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...

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...

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...

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

national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...

elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...

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...

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...