Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. ... This war was a war that they fought in their minds and in their hearts. ... The veterans of World War II spent weeks or in extreme cases even months with their respective units returning on ships, or planes from all over the world. ... One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. ... In World War II and almost every other war in United States military history, our military was ...

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Moreover, the book also depicts the differences between the Vietnam War and other wars such as the World Wars, the Revolutionary war, and Civil War in the history of America. For instance, the Vietnam War is the most costly war ever fought in American history; more than the world wars and the civil war in which American soldiers fought. ... For example, when American soldiers returned from the Second World War, there was a feeling of pride and triumph among the troops, but this is not the case with the Vietnam War. ... The new levels of brutality that the young men had to face were new to the...

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Meanwhile, Willard finds himself on the Nung River during the chaos of the Vietnam War. ... His whole persona summed up the commercialism the war in Vietnam seemed to be escalated by. What was the war being fought for except for the notion to end a Communist threat to the United States' Imperialistic power? ... (Wilmington 287-88) Thus, everything returns to the point made that "the horror" is a boundless underlying theme in the world as well as these two examined texts. ... The fog is a symbolic gesture throughout both texts, so it comes as no surprise that it was utilized in...

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Richard Milhouse Nixon had it within his grasp to be the greatest post-World War II president, he was extremely intelligent, had a driving ambition, and was a political consummate. ... Francis' father, Richard's Grandfather, Samuel Brady Nixon, was only fifteen when his father, George, died in the Civil War. ... Nixon exploited the fact that the Cold War rivalry between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. was just beginning and that anti-communist sentiment was high. ... Since the debate took place on a model of a U.S. kitchen, in front of cameras broadcasted all over the world it was aptly named ...

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