The second section of the book is called "The Officer in Charge of the Dead.... Caputo also describes soldiers showing off the dead bodies of their enemies that they defeated and were almost seen as trophies. ... The last section Caputo titled "In Death's Grey Land" and it is in this section when he gets reassigned to his rifle company. ...
The Vietnam War lasted through six presidents, 50,000 dead American Soldiers and 25 years of battle. ... March 8, 1965 3,500 marines land in Denang. ... The Viet Cong were rarely seen unless dead. The Viet Cong relied on booby traps, land mines. The Bouncing Betty was the most commonly used, all the land mines were homemade. ...
His medical profile is supposed to land him a desk job and he is not expecting to fight at all. ... Lieutenant Carroll was a part of him and part of him was dead with Carroll. ... He remembers how if the VC's weapon had worked, he would be dead and starts to cry. ...
Scruggs and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund lobbied Congress for a two acre plot of land in the Constitutional Garden located on The Mall in Washington D.C.. ... You use the landscape When I looked at the site I just knew I wanted something horizontal that took you in, that made you feel safe within the park, yet at the same time reminding you of the land. ... A flagpole, 60 feet in height and displays a flag 12 feet by 18 feet, and is flown 24 hours a day, seven days a week in honor of the dead listed on the wall (Stones and Mortar). ...
Try to picture for just a moment what the United States would be like if during our civil war, a pro-slavery, but otherwise uninvolved, country had started aiding the southern confederates but in the process destroyed our country's villages, land, and people. Imagine that this hypothetical country had not been asked by the South for assistance, but simply interfered because the morals in their land disagreed with the idea of freeing slaves. ... Many in the U.S. also believed in the Domino Theory: the idea that once one land became communist, the surrounding areas would follow suit. ...
Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated in. ... Vietnam began its mark on the world, when beginning in 1857, France attacked the land and later seized it as a colony. The Vietnam land was finalized to French control in 1883 with the signing of a Treaty of Protectorate, thus ending Vietnam's independence. The French colonial land remained under the country with little uprising for nearly fifty years. ... The war lasted 9 years and many Vietnamese...
The higher Vietnamese casualties (8000 dead and 15000 wounded) could not disguise that this was a very humiliating defeat for the French. ... Additionally, land reforms and redistribution regimes were successfully implemented to promote self-sufficiency from the south, revitalising a country facing impending famine to a country with the fastest growing economy in South-East Asia. ...
Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. We failed to accomplish the goals we created in the beginning. We wanted to help ensure that South Vietnam had a separate, independent, and noncommunist government. Not only were the Vietnamese affected but the American citizens her at home. ...
