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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 ...

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

as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...

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...

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...

American involvement in Vietnam has had a long and complex history. The question of why the US was...

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

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

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

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...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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...

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...

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...

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

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

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

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

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

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

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

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

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

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