Although, many of these men resented having to participate in an overseas war, and had little to no combat experience, they were all willing to become paratroopers in order to make their army experience a positive one. ... Ambrose is very persuasive when he includes a brief description of how the men celebrated Thanksgiving Day while in basic training. Describing two day long field exercises, and how the men crawled on the ground through pig guts ,dodging barbed wire and machine gun fire would give any reader the impression that basic training for the Easy Company was no walk in th...

• Word Count: 946
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Nine died, thirteen were wounded and seven were untouched. ... After three days of no contact during patrols, Hal Moore's 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry was ordered to make an assault in the Ia Drang Valley. ... JFK cautious from the Bay of Pigs fiasco was hesitant to make any moves without a consensus. ... By the time of Kennedy's death America would have 16,000 "advisors" in the country. ... The following day his successor Lyndon Johnson declared "I am not going to lose Vietnam. ...

• Word Count: 2373
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They all would come to the aid of the one threatened from an outside attack. ... They believed that more negotiations would eventually work. ... With the separation of -4- Germany, no one knew what would become of Germany or where it would be in the future. ... Korea would be a -5- divided country full of hostility for many years. ... The danger, some scientists believed, was that having a bomb this large would react with the nitrogen or hydrogen in the atmosphere and create a chain reaction. ...

• Word Count: 3726
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

When he tracked his old friend down, he asked if Bernard would help him remember things about the war. ... Wars would look good, and we would be sure to have more of them. ... He will strive to look back no more. ... He sees his birth and death and everything in between, all out of order, with no pattern to predict what will come next. ... In his own mind, Weary narrates the war stories he will one day tell. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School