This statement proves how the U.S. uses the war as a justification for wide spread destruction and repression. ... On page 894 he talks about how the United States can wash its hands clean of Vietnam, so that the U.S. doesn't have to admit that we have made a mistake, so that president Nixon won't be the first president to lose a war. ... Kerry quotes, "But we are here as veterans to say we think we are in the midst of the greatest disaster of all times now because they are still dying over there-- not just Americans, but Vietnamese--and we are rationalizing leaving that country so ...

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Philip Caputo spent his life acquiring the skills of killing, learning how to fieldstrip and assemble and M-14 rifle blindfolded, how to face death, and how to cause it. ... Caputo knew nothing about the everyday lifestyles we lead today. ... He began to despise the whole staff for sending the platoons out to die. ... When Caputo returned home he felt like many soldiers had died in vain. ... Also, I was surprised to find out how graphic and how much it went into detail. ...

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We know that "the letters from Martha, Jimmy Cross's love, weighed 10 ounces- (2), but we don't know how much Martha meant for Jimmy Cross, and even Cross doesn't even know until Ted Lavender gets shot, and Jimmy Cross has an epiphany, a revelation and realizes that the only way to deal with the war is to get rid of the objects relating him to home. ... This shows how much the objects count in the soldier's mentality towards the war, and how relieved one can be if all traces of the past are physically gone. ... They crawled into tunnels, walked point, and advanced under...

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"How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? ... Yes, how many ears must one man have, Before he can hear people cry? Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows, That too many people have died? ... Many people died in the war and brought grief to the nation for the demise of a large number of soldiers. ...

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Furthermore into how human rights were violated in Vietnam which made the war unjust was the use of Napalm. ... And unfortunately even U.S soldiers were affected or killed by this pesticide, and for those who were lucky enough to make it home alive from Vietnam most likely have died because the United States attempted to cover up Agent Orange denying the horrific effects it had on the human body such as cancer and did not offer any veterans treatment leaving them to die. ... This lead me to believe amount of soldiers and resources we lost in Vietnam was not worth the effort because we not on...

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What makes this book shines is how this absurdity is used, not as a goal, but the means to communicating Catch-22's messages. ... From the earliest points in the book we see Major Major's lighthearted and ridiculous situation show us the incompetence of this system. ... At the end, when the full scene is finally told, all we remember is Snowden as someone who died, fighting only because his number of missions was continuously raised. He dies painfully, since all the Morphine from the plane has been stolen and replaced with a cleanly lettered note signed by Milo. ... Later on, the si...

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"Truman: On July 24, I casually mentioned to Stalin that we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force. ... All he said was that he was glad to hear it, and hoped we would make 'good use of it against the Japanese'" (McKain, pg 171). ... Another 60,000 people had died from their injuries, and radiation. Over the following 5 years, 275,000 people had died as a direct result of the atomic bombs (Sullivan, pg 129). ... I made the only decision I ever knew how to make. ...

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Because of our government dropping the atomic bomb we have been able to make military advancements that would never have been fathomed before and we have been able to make political advancements that we otherwise wouldn't have been able to make. ... Had the United States decided to not use the atomic bomb there is a large chance that we would have had to invade Japan and if we did this we would have lost a much greater amount of lives. There is no way we would be able to tell exactly how many lives were saved just by the fact that we would no longer need to invade Japan but given Japan&...

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In 1953, Stalin died and he was success by Khrushchev. ... (MIA) Through this incident we can see how shaky the position of the communism rule in the Eastern bloc in the necessity of Khrushchev to seek for solution in a bargain. ... Once again, we can see how weak was the communist government in the Eastern bloc. Through the incidents of the East Germany, Poland, and Hungary, we could see how the Communists maintained their position through intimidation and terrorism. ... The peasants did not get enough food and many of them died of starvation. ...

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The belief that freedom and the American way of life and capitalism would cease to exist and die under a communist takeover. ... The American Society was affected by the Cold War in that the U.S. was trying to prove how great their life in this country was. ... In the wake of all this fear was a portrayal of communism in Science Fiction movies, namely "The Blob" and "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" "The Blob" displayed communism as a slow but unstoppable forced that devoured everything, much like we feared the Russians taking over Europe and then the United States. ... Joe McCarthy ...

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Although we held strategic and tactical superiority in the Caribbean, the Bay of Pigs was a disaster. ... We know that did not happen but what would have happened if we had invaded Cuba? ... We didn't realize they were copying us because we weren't aware that ours were lined up the same way. ... That decision shows how high the stakes were during the Cold War and how the decisions by innately fallible humans can affect the course of history. ... It also illustrates how little Kennedy a...

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With 35 years having passed between that auspicious day and this one, we are at a privileged position to look back and weigh the decisions of the last seven Presidents against the words Richard Nixon ratified in 1969. ... I seek to know how the United States has honored the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since the current President took the oath of office. ... The thought that not only will my enemies die, but my loved ones and I will die as well, was able to serve as the only necessary detractor. ... Moreover, President Bush's administration's nuclear weapons decisions and pol...

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The full extent of his ruthlessness may never be known, but the actions we do know about are truly appalling. ... He married his first wife Yekaterina Svanidze, in 1904, but she unfortunately died in 1910, only after six years of marriage. ... They where designed to convince domestic and foreign people of the existence of a vast anti- Soviet conspiracy, and to strike fear into any Soviet how tried to disagree with Stalin. ... Somewhere between 21 and 28 million soviet civilians and soldiers died in the war. ...

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What you wear, how you wear it, and why you wear it, depends on time and place. ... The femininity and refinement was brought by Dior and his famous collection called "new look- that became a new style of 50's. ... It was a decade of thriving of a variety of the Houses of High Fashion, such as Gucci, Valentino, Dior, Chanel. ... Length, style, trousers or dress were the wearer's choice not only what to wear, but how to wear it and what with. The echo of that time we still experience today. ...

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However; during that time, Eisenhower was in Korea talking to soldiers and getting a first hand account of how the war was going. ... The North Korean casualties were estimated to be around 520,000 and about 900,000 Chinese soldiers died supporting the North Koreans. ... In the "Atoms for Peace Speech" Eisenhower stated that not many countries at the time knew how to make an atomic bomb. ... "We (the United States) never have, and never will, propose or suggest that the Soviet Union surrender what rightly belongs to it. We will never say that the people of the USSR are an enem...

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We Were Soldiers Once and Young was co-authored by Lt. ... Nine died, thirteen were wounded and seven were untouched. ... 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.). ... To properly understand how America's involvement in Vietnam came about one must look back into history a long ways. ... "We count on your great kindness to honor our appeal by your support whenever the opportunity arises," wrote Ho. ...

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As Americans, we all have a sense of loyalty and respect toward our county. ... That night, Kovic wrote in his diary how lucky he was to be in Vietnam fighting for America (198). ... His attitude quickly went from being willing to die for America to intentionally putting himself at physical risk. ... As Kovic lay in the marshes, of Vietnam the only thing he could think about was that he might die at that moment for nothing (222). ... It was in the hospital that Kovic got his first glimpse of how Vietnam veterans were treated. ...

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Before such a movement happened, life for women was not at all like how most people know it today. ... Families, in result, became tightly knit, with each member having a specific role, setting up stereotypes that we know today, with much accuracy. ... Their lyrics of the hit song "Somebody to Love- reflect this attitude: When the truth is found to be lies You know the joy within you dies Don't you want somebody to love? ... The rough, in-your-face rock from the Summer of Love died away to be replaced by mellower, softer rock, although the Vietnam conflict was still rising. ...

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The never-say-die Japanese showed no signs of surrendering any time soon. ... Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist that headed the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb recalled that "I don't think there was any time where we worked harder at the speed-up than in the period after the German surrender.". ... Mass suicide had been committed on Saipan, hundreds had died in suicidal kamikaze 'missions', and surrendering was an unthinkable option. ... For many who opposed the use of nuclear weaponry, they opposed it because of how inhumane it was. ...

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By the time he died Dransfield was something of a cult hero. ... Dransfield's poetry was written to evoke a response from these alternate life stylers and its purpose was to speak out a against a society obsessed with commercialism, the negative aspects of a rapidly changing society, the effects of the Vietnam war on society, the negatives of compulsory conscription and how the alternate way of life he so famously led was fast becoming a way out of dealing with and living with society in its then present state. ... It is however relevant to Dransfield's poetry that he took ...

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As a result, we are always seeking for new entertainment. ... We prefer to search the web or drive a fast car. The most important thing we are leaving behind is faith. ... In his dream he sees himself saving many Vietnamese children, and then he dies in the arms of a nun. ... He can not comprehend how, if he is the Son of God, he could have committed such a horrible accident. ...

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Through the essay you will see how our lives are similar but yet different. ... And again, my parents compared me to all my cousins, and how they got into the best colleges. ... He did not have the blond hair, blue eyes we were all so use to. He had black hair brown eyes, and for that he had water spilled all over him, which woke him up to how America still hasn't changed through the years... Being in college I thought that type of ignorance would die out, but there have been many incidents with cultural conflicts leading to brawls. ...

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This has unfortunately happened to others and me more times than we would have liked it to. Kurt Vonnegut writes in Hocus Pocus about how people are mechanistic creatures that are filled with ignorance. ... His father was using him for his own benefit rather than him taking into consideration that his son has a high chance of dying at war. ... That is how the riots came about which killed several African Americans. ... Their conversation is trying to show how ignorance is trapped within the societies rules and ethics. ...

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They were too old to see the need for change and died shortly after their election. ... Gorbachev was faced with this problem and had to look how to get out of this situation and to convince the Muslim population that they are secure in their own country. ... As we can see the political and economic system was at its low, reforms where extremely necessary to improve the whole system. ...

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President Truman decided that the U.S would evacuate the peninsula only if we were forced out by military necessity (Mathew B Ridgway 92). ... We could prevent Communists in the time. ... Macarthur had been thinking that "why don't we take other steps to punish the aggressor? Why don't we bomb Manchuria and China itself? Why don't we assist Chinese Nationalist troops to land on the mainland of China?" ...

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