The Moment the War Comes Home After landing troops on the battlefield of South Vietnam with huge amounts of war expenses, Washington D.C. incessantly acclaimed for a liberal democracy in this small Asian country. ... As the massacre is looked back upon, there are several key events that set the tragic day. ... The announcement on April 30, 1970, of President Richard Nixon that US troops would cross the Vietnam border into Cambodia was the straw that broke the camel's back, ignited a wave of protest by students. 1 Schools closed! ... Many young men refused to go to Vietnam and applied f...

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The way I look at the situation is this: why wait for them to come to us? ... In doing so, we plan to (and will) install a "scratch our back; we'll scratch yours" system that will prove to be a win/win situation. ... With this set policy in mind, we must go after those responsible for acts of terrorism as well those who harbor and fund those responsible. ... Looking back on World War II, we sat and waited until the war was brought to us to help the world. ... The only way to ensure protection is to set policy for homeland security, and to go after those who seek to do us harm. ...

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I know that you're going to go away and be a soldier. ... With the possibilities that your loved one might come back as a completely different person, physically harmed or not come back at all, the pursuit of falling in love becomes awfully challenging. ... She lusts for these men that go off to war and sometimes come back with physical deficiencies or other times do not come back at all. ... Considering the amount of men that go off to war and come back to Barbara wounded, she finds it quite difficult to fall in love since they hardly return as the men that left. ... Men go to war as one...

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After three weeks of being away from home he decided to go back. ... o go. ... After about a week Bill got home sick and wanted to go back to the firmilier side of London. ... Towards the end of the day Bill was looking off into the distance and he saw his father, he had come back for the war. ... He ran to go get help and the fire men had come to get them both out. ...

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Former Spec. 5 Edward Sowders said, "I'm going back to the militaryit's a choice between that or Canada again, where we all stay underground.... If they wanted to leave and go to Canada then that's okay, but they can't come back though.... What have I done to Nixon so he comes here to bomb my country? ... "You let us go off to war saying yay team lets go fight Vietnam," said Sgt. William Marshall, "Now 1968 comes along and it's boo team come on homebut don't say nothing about it because we don't want to hear about it because it's upse...

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For those who came back with severe injuries the trauma was not over. They came back only to find that the mood of the British people had changed, indeed, there was to be no cheering for those who risked their lives fighting for it; they came back only to find that society would rather forget what happened during these years that society no longer cares. ... A reflection of how deeply this traumatic experience has affected Owen can be seen through is use of an enjambment to describe the boy's death: " the blood, Come gargling- This is used not only to develop the images Owen sees in his n...

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His poem "Harlem" questions what happens to dreams when they don't come true. ... Bennie wants to go to medical school to become a doctor. ... She also goes on to say, "But Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back-And didn't none of it happen" (Hansberry 45). ... Another person that comes into play is Walter, of course. ... Ruth comes to the conclusion that Walter needs something that she can't give him. ...

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After a while he leaves the hospital and walks back to the hotel in the rain. Henry has lost something of great value and realizes death is the end and, when it comes, there is nowhere to go. ... Hemingway uses rain in the scene when Henry leaves the train station to go back to war. ... This shows that Henry is maturing and realizes that he does not want to go back to the war. ... The dilemma for Henry is that he must go back to the war and leave the woman he loves. ...

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When he first enters the story Paul is very enthusiastic about going to the war. ... After this leave he is sent back to training and then back to the front. ... They where bandaged up and sent on a train back home. ... After a few more weeks Paul and Kropp parted, Paul going to war and Kropp going home. ... The people of those countries would listen when someone would come along and say that there was hope. ...

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However the Russians, were highly unlikely going to listen to such a polite message, especially as they refused to even acknowledge they had missiles in their in the first place! ... Both sides refused to back down, as a result, each side was preparing for war. ... The CIA constantly monitored the boats, and thankfully the boats slowed down and headed back for Russia. ... This was a very smart decision by Kennedy to send his brother, as if he had declared war, then one country was going to be wiped out, and it was probably going to be America, as the nuclear payload of Russia was enough to wip...

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Some of the out comes of the war were: Soviet forces surrendered to South Korea, North Korea became a "Soviet Client State," and South Korea was now backed up by the United States (education.1 Yahoo). ... To start it is imperative to realize that tension between South Korea and North Korea had been going on before Word War 2. ... Like the saying goes, there are two sided to each story. ... And after the war the U.S. came back confused. ... Truman goes on to say, "I have never seen such devastation. ...

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World War II ended on May 8th of 1945 in Europe, but those who survived found it difficult to go back to a normal life, as they did not even remember what that life had even been like, and some did not even find a reason to move on or a point to living itself. ... Even though Holocaust survivors and families did everything in trying to go on with their lives without being reminded of their past, traumatic memories would come flooding back along with many emotions. ... It causes pain to come back and many refuse to let that pain be felt (Barel, Schwartz, Kranenburg, and IJzendoorn, "Surviv...

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Also the work of women and the extra attention they are getting when it comes to the workplace is briefly mentioned. ... One page was dedicated to theatre productions going on. ... How advertisers go about getting that message across is slightly different toady from back then. ... Advertising back then was pretty shameless as well. ... It is just not as blatant today as it was back then. ...

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As a result, of these changes Gene comes to the conclusion that him and Finny are in a constant competition in which death, jealousy and the loss of a best friend result. ... When Gene and Finny get back from the beach, Gene gets his first F ever on a test. ... When Gene goes to visit Finny in his own home, Finny seems much more mature and seems like he has grown up. ... Brinks goes from being highly involved in class politics, to shunning his duty as a school politician. Leper goes off to war and comes back nearly insane. ...

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As a result, of these changes Gene comes to the conclusion that him and Finny are in a constant competition in which death, jealousy and the loss of a best friend result. ... When Gene and Finny get back from the beach, Gene gets his first F ever on a test. ... When Gene goes to visit Finny in his own home, Finny seems much more mature and seems like he has grown up. ... Brinks goes from being highly involved in class politics, to shunning his duty as a school politician. Leper goes off to war and comes back nearly insane. ...

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Philip Caputo's, the author of A Rumor of War, use of vivid language made the book come alive, as if it were a movie. ... After a while, Caputo goes back to being a Platoon leader, and the war involves much more action and enemy contact now. ... No one spoke and I felt it come back again, that old, familiar, cold, cramping fear Goddamn this war, he said, Goddamn this war," (248). ... He goes "whoring" along with the other men and he loses some of his close friends... I can only imagine how these men feel to this day when they look back on it. ...

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The story goes on about how she had lived through those times, near the end of the war, worrying about what the future held, and if she would ever get back to being that geisha again, and especially if she would ever see the Chairman again, in whom she had fantasized a lot about throughout the book. ... After having become the Chairman's mistress, she was no longer considered a geisha, and that was where the "freedom" comes in. ... The author goes into greater detail on the following page of how this "Older Sister" and "Younger Sister" arrangement worked. ... There are plenty of other ex...

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Soon however the mentality of the boys changes and they become hardened soldiers: At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. ... In Catch 22 Yossarian goes AWOL meaning he simply runs away. ... The catch 22 in the novel refers to that if someone is to be sent home they must be insane, an insane person would keep flying and want to go off to war, if someone says they don't want to go to war then they must be sane and therefore are forced to go off to war. ... Finally when he does get killed he seems happy and relieved, "his fa...

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This paper will explain the events of Pearl Harbor and how it had come about. It explains why and when the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor. ... Everyone from across the world still goes to see the memorial today. ... (Ships Present at Pearl Harbor, 1) The orders that the general had were to go ahead with the attack, but if he were to be spotted then he should abort the mission and head back to Japan. ... (Prange, 79) The first inkling of the Japanese attack did not come from the air, but from the water....

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"Baroque to Oriental: Pearls are Back."" ... Classic is back in fashion. ... She admits that the old stuff she has in her closet may never go out of fashion. What she doesn't know is that she could probably wear anything in her closet, and if she wore it with confidence, it would probably "come back in style."" ... This goes against the thought that a shocking new trend will just die out and never withstand. ...

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People were beginning to go back to work and make more substantial incomes so they could provide for their families. ... The innocent Japanese Americans were wrongly placed into these camps and the actions taken by the United States government put heavy burdens on the Japanese Americans for years to come. ... Japanese who chose to go back to the western part of the country had tough times regaining financial stability again. ... The problem was that there were fewer Japanese Americans in the east and many Japanese Americans wanted to live in the areas they had come from before the war. ... ...

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The three main individuals at this meeting were Churchill of Great Britain, Roosevelt of the United States and Stalin of the U.S.S.R, known back then, and now known as Russia. ... "FDR believed that the UN was the only device that could keep the United States from slipping back into isolationism after WWII"(1). ... My dad, having lived through a lot of these changes going on after the war, (communists taking over) has told me many stories about the oppression the communists brought to Romania after the war. ... Freedom is took for granted and the pain that a small country like that had to go t...

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Although, many events of this fantasy realm may have come from more recent twentieth-century history. ... When light appeared Sam rubbed his eyes: he thought his head was going queer. ... Sam looked back and found that Frodo had lagged again. ... 'Come, Mr. ... Go on!' ...

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The final, and perhaps most important of these struggles that Ross fights comes at the end of the book. ... Ross and her inability to come to terms with Robert Ross's entering into manhood. ... I know that you're going to go away and be a soldier. Well - you can go to hell. ... Back then Ross would have no idea of the impact that failure would play in his life. ...

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The team playing the defending champions wants to come out hyped up and with their "A-game" every time they are competing with them. ... The jobs were all given back to the men, and women were once again treated very delicately. They went back to their old ways of life when a woman's life wasn't supposed to be strenuous. ... The Red Scare started back a few years before the 1920s and went away relatively for awhile during World War II. ... It kept on going, however, due to the American communists, communist sympathizers, and citizens trying to achieve social justice. ...

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