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

money gaining the favor of the general public. He had only one true political rival, Nicias, who had secured a treaty of peace fo...

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

to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

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

and serious nature - was interpreted as threatening to the Soviets ears and caused an unexpected attitude backlash for Reagans pro...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

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

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

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...

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

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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