THIS STAEMENT MEANS THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT WAR FROM TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES; ON ONE HAND, PEOPLE ARE DYING BECAUSE THEY CAN GET WOUNDED FROM THE TIP OF THIER TOES TO THE CORE OF THEIR BRAINS. ON THE OTHER HAND, WHEN YO STARE OUT AT TRACER ROUNDS UNWINDING THROUGH THE DARK THAT IS LIKE BRILLIANT RED RIBBONS. " YOU ADMIRE THE FLUID SYMMETRIES OF THE TROOPS ON THE MOVE, THE HARMONIES OF THE SOUND AND SHAPE NAD PROPORTION, THE GREAT SHEETS OF THE METAL-FIRE STREAMING DOWN FROM THE GUNSHIP, TEH ILLUMINATION ROUND, THE WHITE PHOSPOROUS, THE PURPLE ORANGE GLOW OF NAPALM, THE ROCKET'S RED GLARE....

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We moved our patrols out from the LZ and captured intelligence from deserters of the NVA and were cut off from the rest of A- Company (www.nvo.org/vv98/other/010031.htm, 2001.). ... B-Company had moved through the jungle and contact was made with the NVA forces. ... The insertion of C and D Companies were completed, they secured the LZ perimeter as A-Company moved up to the ridge to reinforce B-Company. ... JFK cautious from the Bay of Pigs fiasco was hesitant to make any moves without a consensus. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prol...

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The American people believed that Dwight Eisenhower would be an outstanding President. ... Eisenhower wanted to develop the interstates because he knew that Hitler used the Audubons System in Germany to quickly move the Nazi troops. Eisenhower knew that if America needed to move their military troops rapidly they would need interstate highways systems. ... In this speech, Eisenhower says, "So my country's purpose is to help us to move out of the dark chamber of horrors into the light, to find a way by which the minds of men, the souls of men everywhere, can move forward towards peace...

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During his time as dictator he moved the Soviet Union to a world power, while starving and arresting his own people. ... His second job was to hire and fire people for Administrative tasks. As a smart politician he would only hired people who where loyal to him and had the same views and fire the people who he didn't like. ... This smart move also helped him defeat his biggest threat and the foremost candidate for Lenin's position Leon Trotsky. ... Stalin made a few appalling moves the help prevent the German troops. ...

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Throughout history, many political, economic and social conditions have been developed causing a change in the course of history for nations and people. ... This setting created a border between the two sides, which caused the two sides to move further away from each other and turn more hostile against each other. Many of the people living in East Germany were unhappy with the conditions there. ... Over 160 people who tried to escape were killed at the Berlin Wall, and another 200 were injured. As the years went by, the leaders of East Berlin's communist Party decided to allow some peopl...

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Stalin wanted the Russian border to move west into Europe. He argued that Poland's border could then move westwards into Germany. ... When Germany surrendered American troops began to move to the Pacific and Soviet superiority in Europe was overwhelming. ... This time it was said in public, where all the people of the world could hear it. ... However speeches had more than just that kind of effect they changed peoples attitudes the American and Soviet military may have begun to think that they should be ready for war with each other. ...

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They affected many people emotionally and physically. ... A quarter of the working force or 13 million people were unemployed in 1932, and this was only the beginning (Encarta Encyclopedia). ... It opened many doors for other people to follow. ... Although Lewis and Clark did not find this route, the expedition succeeded in making peaceful contact with Native Americans and uncovering a wealth of knowledge about the peoples, geography, plants, and animals of the western United States (Encarta Encyclopedia). ... Truman opposed Stalin's policy and moved to unite Europe under American...

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" Truman felt that if he hadn't made such a bold move on Japan, even more troops and civilians would have died, but the war on Japan had already been nearly over. ... To some scientists, the fact that they were working on creating a weapon to kill other people was probably horrifying. ... Hundreds of thousands of innocent people died, only to end a war that was already over....

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Once the audience separates the Hitler loyalists from the people whose positions are products of their situation, sympathy is created. ... Suddenly, the camera stops and the lieutenant moves out of the frame. ... The camera slowly begins to move inward. ...

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John Irving was trying to tell people to think, or even rethink, about their stance on faith. ... The relationship bears many similarities to that of God and his people. ... This occurrence is very symbolic of Jesus giving his life to save the sinful people that comprise Christianity. ... Those that are against the war love the people that are being sent away to fight and they don't want to see them get hurt. ... I do not think it moved the way John Irving intended it to, but it moved me all the same. ...

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Tim O'Brien's-The Things They Carried Eating Them Away For young people, the Vietnam War is a thing of the past and they can Only learn about it from second hand sources. In Tim O'Brien's the Things They Carried, it becomes very apparent that the Vietnam Conflict has proved to be one that many of the participants have not Been able move away from, while getting on with their lives. ... The war becomes his whole life, and he feels as though he is to far distant from the town people for them to understand. ... They talk of experiences and hardships, then ...

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The Rise of Independent Nations In Indochina Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. All of these nations came into existence during a turbulent era around fifty years ago. They are the three nations, which make up the region commonly known as, Indochina. Before those countries were founded, the entire ...

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Harry Truman is to be admired for many things; for example, when he left the White House, he moved back into the same house he had lived in when he and Bess were first married: "But when Harry Truman left the White House in 1953, he returned to the same rambling, slightly ramshackle, two-and-a-half-story Victorian that he and Bess had lived in since their marriage thirty-four years earlier" (pg 19). ... Throughout the book you come to find that Truman had some people that he was not very fond of. ... President Nixon was believed to be one of two people in politics that Harry Truman truly hated...

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However, people back in the United States saw this as expansion of the war. This controversy was settled in 1973 when it was found out that the United States secretly bombed Communist targets in Cambodia in 1969 and again in 1970; Even though Nixon had said that "neither the United States nor South Vietnam has moved against those enemy sanctuaries because we did not wish to violate the territory of a neutral nation."3 To keep these raids secret, the Pentagon sent false reports to a Senate committee, but Nixon said in 1973 that Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia's chief of state, ag...

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Prompt and Utter Destruction Since the end of World War II, the world has developed in many ways and has moved on from the destruction of the past. ... Many people are still stuck on the significant question, "Why was the bomb dropped?... "he could never have explained his reasoning in a way that satisfied the American people.... If he hadn't gone through with it, he'd face resentment from many people in America for the extreme costs of the country to build the bombs, and from the family members of the troops that had already died in the last few days of the war. ...

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A key part to the telegram was that communism may be attractive to war torn Europe as their markets had collapsed and people were living in unsustainable conditions. ... In response, Truman commenced the Berlin Airlift which consisted of hundred of thousands of supply drops into West Berlin to sustain the city's people while under their blockade. ... By doing this, Stalin could not make any military move on one NATO member country without having the other ten countries declaring war with the soviets as well. ...

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In the late 1950's there were 8,000 to 10,000 people from East Germany left and each day they would move further into the west. The people were from East Berlin, and the government of East Germany knew that they couldn't loose all of these people. Their economy was suffering already, and with the loss of so many people the economy would be hopeless. Many of the people that left were skilled trades men. ... It stunned people from both East and West Germany. ...

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With this, they got into bikes and moved around much more efficiently than the Americans. ... The Government of America, noticed how people felt about this war, and started to make instant plans for the withdraw. ...

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Perestroika implemented more profit motives for the people and the private ownership in agriculture. ... With the fostering of private businesses, 5 million people were employed. ... When he came to power, people had low morale and incentive and were afraid to speak up. ... Gorbachev wanted to eliminate these feelings and made actual moves for that such as for example, he allowed to 100 people who were opposed to Gorbachev's policies, to form the "Democratic Club" where people from any city could have an open discussion on political affaires. He supported the individual freedom by giving ...

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The East German people elected Konrad Adenuer leader of the Christian Democratic Republic. ... Russia moved entire German factories from Germany to Russia. ... This was the only existence in history of the world that a wall was erected to keep an entire people confined to one place, rather than to keep someone out. ... About 350 people were killed trying to cross the border. ... While millions sat in front of their televisions and watched people in Berlin dance together on top of the wall and embrace each other on the street and destroy the ugly barrier. ...

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All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people marched on Washington Avenue (Wells, 25). ... It was a broad coalition of over one hundred antiwar groups and drew in people from all over the United States (Wells, 334). ... It was hard for the soldiers in Vietnam to find ways to move beyond protests and symbolic acts, to deeds that would actually have a more serious effect on stopping the war. ... Although many people view the antiwar protests as being violent and out of control, there were also many non- violent peace movements. ... He ...

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All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people marched on Washington Avenue (Wells, 25). ... It was a broad coalition of over one hundred antiwar groups and drew in people from all over the United States (Wells, 334). ... It was hard for the soldiers in Vietnam to find ways to move beyond protests and symbolic acts, to deeds that would actually have a more serious effect on stopping the war. ... Although many people view the antiwar protests as being violent and out of control, there were also many non- violent peace movements. ... He ...

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He killed many thousands innocent people and exiled hundreds more. ... Killing or exiling thousands of millions of people for simple mistakes. ... One of the best moves Stalin mad was making a Neutrality Pact with Japan, which in turn kept it from fighting a two front war. ... The victory of Grand Alliance would have not been achieved without the patriotism of the people of USSR, which is why many people consider Stalin "the man who won the War." ... Even though he was wicked, he was the only ruler at the time who the people thought of when he died. ...

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The work was under to hard conditions, the people had nothing they could believe on and so the take hold of alcohol. ... The people in the Soviet Union where angered and discontented with their life and so they oftener became criminals. ... Another problem was the bad harvest seasons in the last 1970s, where nearly all the harvest production suffered and not enough food left over for the Soviet people. ... During the last decades the employment in this sector was increasing instead of decreasing, it showed that the Soviet Union couldn't move forward with the new technology and couldn'...

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Not many people would stay in hotels during times of war. ... After the war, your son/daughter want to marry one of the people that killed your own. ... Also Michael was a Marine dive bomber, who was one of the people that bombed Japan. ... After that they moved to the states when Michael Dulina Sr. retired from the Air Force. ... Chieko and her family have had a long journey through the war, and through life's trials, but now she can rest easy with her family and the people she loves....

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