Most general books and texts on the Vietnam War (including Moss' Vietnam, An American Ordeal, Fourth Edition) gloss over, if not skip entirely, the role of women in Vietnam. ... Unlike the men who served in the U.S. military during the war, all women in Vietnam were volunteers since they were not subject to the draft. In a war that became less and less popular as the years went by, American women still were motivated to join the effort in Vietnam. ... Some of these women traveled in and out of Vietnam at various intervals during the war, while others had a more permanent presence in th...

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Mia Lynn confronted this exact challenge when she entered a contest to design the Vietnam Veteran Memorial. ... Non-representational art such as Mia Lynn's Vietnam Veteran Memorial, is not straightforward and too the point. ... Looking at a statue of a soldier or an American flag, you think patriotism, war but to view a slab of granite disappearing into the earth, you must put yourself in the place of a Vietnam soldier and decipher why this memorial symbolizes Vietnam, abstract but effective. ... Without that extra thought that the audience goes through, it represents every war, every s...

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"Homecoming", by Bruce Dawe, illustrates and recounts the tragedies of the Vietnam War in an even-tempered, but negative tone. ... Despite having made the ultimate sacrifice of going to war, the fact the most attention they are presented with is from a dog accentuates the global concept of war as dehumanizing. ... This meaning is however used ironically by subtly contrasting the traditional implications of the word, with the shocking reality of dead soldiers flown home from Vietnam. ... They are quite unlucky having never received the recognition they deserved at the end of the war. By using ...

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Almost the entire nation supports the war on terrorism and the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, but how many of those supporters are willing to fight in this war if called upon? ... The draft first came to America during World War I. ... The military draft was also used during the campaigns in Korea and Vietnam. ... And because he believes that the war on terrorism is a different type of war, a different type of draft is needed. ... The government doesn't have the authority to virtually put a gun to my head and force me to go to war. ...

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