Department of Veterans Affairs, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder affects over 31 percent of Vietnam veterans and 11 percent of veterans from the war in Afghanistan. Soldiers in the war are not only fighting for their country, but for their lives. ... In the beginning of this short story, Timhead shoots and kills a 12 year old boy during a firefight. ... Back in those times, it was hard enough to be black man in America, so being a black man in the war was another challenge he had to encounter. ... The Things They Carried showed how the soldiers looked to each other for comfort in the traumatic s...

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Major occurrences during this era are Civil Rights Movement in 1954, Vietnam War in 1955, and the Watergate Scandal in the 1970s. ... In the poem "Facing It" by American author Yusef Komunyakaa, the author uses metaphor, imagery, and symbolism in order to express to his audience the close experience of making his journey to the Vietnam War Veteran's Memorial in Washington, DC. ... Once more, these names summon memories from the war, remembrances of war aircrafts hovering in the sky. ... Yet Komunyakaa finds a link he shares with this veteran, as "He's lost his right ar...

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King then moved his focus to other arenas such as voicing his opinions against the Vietnam war, poor people's campaigns, and affirming black identity. ... People become so caught up in King's philosophies on love and nonviolence that they do not recognize that he opposed the Vietnam War, was harassed by the FBI, who alleged he had ties to the Communist party, or the different phases of his life were his thinking evolved. ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929. Throughout his life, King was known best as a Civil Rights Leader. King was born into a family of Baptist Ministers. King grew up in a time when the opportunities for education and experience were not available to children in poorer urban and rural areas. He was fortunate to have these opportunities. ...

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Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971. ... He goes on the record for saying that "The high homicide rates that characterize the United States really have a geographical origin in the white, rural pre-Civil War South" (Booknotes, 1989). ... Also in the beginning stages of this chapter the whites began to become enraged due to the fact that blacks were given the right to vote and there were more blacks in the population the...

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At the beginning I began to look for information on the internet and in various libraries. ... Nothing indicated that anything would change. 1.2 The beginning (1954 - 1963) King's life as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement began in 1955 with the Bus Boycott. Its beginning was not actually a planned action, but rather a coincidence. ... On November 13, 1956, one year after its beginning, the Montgomery Bus Boycott finally ended. ...

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After the Civil War and the Emancipation Declaration which abolished slavery, everything at first seemed to change. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ...

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