Although the battle was over, there were more than 5,000 NVA/ Vietcong dead in Hue, and about 90 captured. ... Among the civilians of Hue, there were 5,800 listed as dead or missing, most of whom had been killed by communist and buried in mass graves in the inner city. ... Army had 74 dead and about 500 seriously wounded. ...
By telling stories about the dead the American soldiers in the Vietnam War is trying to make death less real, as if they were alive. ... Therefore, a well-told story can actually allow the dead to continue to survive. ... The characters in this story are at the first combatants in the Vietnam War, thus blinded by killing that soon starts to obscure any prior ideas held about what is moralistic .In the end of the story Cross seems haunted by guilt and loaded by carrying Lavender's dead soul and carrying the weight of irresponsibility. ...
As the wounded and dead lay upon the ground, the strike movement initiated to protest the American military invasion of Cambodia immediately increased. ... Two of the dead, Jeffery Miller and Allison Krause, had actively participated in the rally. ...
The first was when Caputo was ordered to leave dead bodies in the middle of the road so everyone could get used to seeing them... As the colonel had ordered, the headquarters troops marched past the trailer to look at the dead Viet Cong the sun burned down, and the bodies began to smell in the heat," (173-174). ... I could not understand why someone would want dead bodies lying around for people to look at. ...
The battle resulted with forty enemy dead and fifty American soldiers were wounded or killed (p. 170). ... Hunt reported that in fact their were seventy-two enemy dead and in the morning after he flew in the press so he could brief them at the site of his "great battle" (p,. 171). ...
A bullet went through Sandra Scheuer's throat as she was walking to class.3 The university was closed immediately and the city of Keny was placed under a 5:00 curfew with all entrances to the city blocked off.4 There are so many different descriptions of shooting circumstances, but one thing for sure is that none of the students who were shot dead stood less than 100 meters away from the Guardsmen. ... New York major John Lindsey ordered flags at New York City Hall to be flown at half mast to honor the 4 dead.6 On the morning of May 8, hundreds of young people gathered at Federal Hal in L...
As the film continues, and Willard is recruited to Vietnam to embark out on his top-secret mission to terminate Kurtz, the films rich sound mixing continues to stand forth keep the viewer dead center of the action and detail in every single scene. ...
But many protested after the invasion of Cambodia. 250,000 took to the streets of Washington between 14th and 16th of November with 40,000 people carry candles past the White House each saying the name of a dead soldier. In May 1970, four students were shot dead by the National Guard at Kent state University after they had been in anti-war rallies. ...
We WON the war? The Vietnam War lasted through six presidents, 50,000 dead American Soldiers and 25 years of battle. In 1945 Vietnamese nationalist declared independence from France. In 1954 France surrenders 10,000. Vietnam splits, North and South. American's thought that Vietnam was thought to ...
One of the Australians had taken a souvenir off one of the dead bodies of the Viet Cong. ... The commanders were saying "if he's dead and Vietnamese, he's VC" (74) The battalions went on never-ending search and destroy missions to flush out the Viet Cong and their accomplices. ...
Media: The Puppeteer of the Public's Perception Ever watch Bugs Bunny and the Looney Toon gang? Of course. Remember the episodes depicting Bugs and the gang in Word War I or World War II garb and situations? Bugs was always the red-blooded American hero and those Germans were depicted as despicable...
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietn...
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. This was the normal lifestyle of Caputo's time, war. Caputo knew nothing about the everyday lifestyles we lead today. His life ...
Many social changes that were addressed in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. The '60s was a decade of social and political upheaval. In spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, John F. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontie...
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietn...
Vietnam, the heart and soul of teenage rebellion to the government for creating a draft that sent over the creative and intelligent youth, was a war that deemed to get rid of the political idea, communism, which spread as quick as the napalm that blazed over the serene green landscapes. The narrator...
The Vietnam War was between the of 1957-1975. In these eighteen years, men and women served and fought in the war. Even though men took most of the acknowledgment in this war, women played a tremendous role as well. Their remembrance was not as well-known as the men who served in the war. Almos...
Rivalry of Culture Fear; the strife between the capitalist and communist governments resulted in this. The belief that freedom and the American way of life and capitalism would cease to exist and die under a communist takeover. There were specific and deliberate decisions that the U.S. made d...
Have you ever wondered what would happen to the state of popular music should a war ever break out? It's hard to determine exactly what roads popular culture will travel down in the best of times, under the most pleasant of circumstances. Forecasting such a metamorphosis under dire circums...
Imagine sitting on the rooftop, with the moon beaming above you. You shift your eyes from one side to the other, searching for unsuspecting victims. Your eagerness drives you to sit impatiently, but you know you cannot budge from your spot. Even the slightest footstep could give away your positio...
Vietnam War To many, the Vietnam War symbolizes controversy, myth and question in America. There are many events that made Americans wonder what reasons we had for putting our troops and families in Vietnam. Up till that point, many other Americans had never questioned the acts of t...
Try to picture for just a moment what the United States would be like if during our civil war, a pro-slavery, but otherwise uninvolved, country had started aiding the southern confederates but in the process destroyed our country's villages, land, and people. Imagine that this hypothetical country had not been asked by the South for assistance, but simply interfered because the morals in their land disagreed with the idea of freeing slaves. This purely metaphorical circumstance is almost parallel to the very real events involving America in Vietnam from 1956-1975. The longest war in Ameri...
