Cook Reaction to Howard Zinn's Writing about Vietnam Zinn gives a complete overview of what happened. ... While reading this some of my thoughts of the entire Vietnam War changed. ... I think that one of the biggest problems our country had during the Vietnam War was the extreme lack of public support. ... They would rather go to jail then be put in the situations of the Vietnam War. ... If I was alive during the time of the Vietnam War I believe I would have been willing to go to war, until it got out of hand. ...

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Usually all Hollywood films adopt two main approaches in depicting the Vietnam War. ... Another perspective on Vietnam War is given by Bubba. ... Jenny, though she is not taking part in the Vietnam War sequence, represents completely different opinion towards the war. ... The Vietnam War is just another event or period of time for him. ... So there are four views of Vietnam War for audience to choose from. ...

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Reaction to Howard Zinn's Writing about Vietnam Zinn gives a complete overview of what happened. ... While reading this some of my thoughts of the entire Vietnam War changed. ... I think that one of the biggest problems our country had during the Vietnam War was the extreme lack of public support. ... They would rather go to jail then be put in the situations of the Vietnam War. ... If I was alive during the time of the Vietnam War I believe I would have been willing to go to war, until it got out of hand. ...

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Both pieces depict young men as they lose their innocence in the Vietnam War facing the inhumane acts that comes along with war. ... Thus far, this is shown as the young men go into the Vietnam War sheltered and not really being revealed to immorality in the world. ... Although as the war persisted and Richie gets a real taste of war, he is faced with the inhumane acts that come along with war, such as the cruelty and senseless lives lost from both opposition of the VCs and the American soldiers. ... Whereas in "The Man I Killed" O'Brien narrates his experience in the Vietnam Wa...

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He did not what lied ahead of him in the Vietnam Conflict, but he would soon find out. ... In the marines he became a lieutenant and was put in command of the second platoon in Vietnam. ... He decided that he would make the deal and he was sent home from Vietnam. ... Caputo's story of Vietnam tells us a lot about the confusion and turmoil our soldiers experienced in the war. ... The American experience in Vietnam was not a good one at all. ...

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In the era surrounding the Vietnam War there was a lot of controversy about African Americans. Both locally and in the war. During this time, African Americans were separated in their opinions of the war. ... Another base of desire for blacks to join the war effort in Vietnam was that they were, for the first time, treated as equals. ... Of course not all African Americans were eager to go to war. ...

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The name "Warrior Angels" was given by Lieutenant Carroll to American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. ... This book showed me that the Vietnam War was a horrible and questionable war. ... This book showed me what the Vietnam War could do to a person. ... The Vietnam War screwed up soldiers" heads and it was not even for a worthwhile cause. ... The Vietnam War should never have even occurred. ...

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Seneca, a Roman philosopher and dramatist, expresses that "Worse than war is the fear of war." ... In the Vietnam War, many young men were forced to leave their wives and families to fight for a questionable cause. ... Another burning question that is on everyone's mind concerns the purpose of the Vietnam War--why are the soldiers even there? They march "without purpose" (80) and wrestle with the "ambiguities of Vietnam" (81). This uncertainty of why the soldiers are in Vietnam causes feelings of doubt in their sense of well-being. ...

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Others felt that the war in Vietnam was unjust. ... This is the first war that America did not win and many felt ashamed of what we did to the people of Vietnam. ... The government lied to the American people about Vietnam. ... Vietnam has made the public question our leaders. ... Another consequence of Vietnam is the draft. ...

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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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The Vietnam war drastically altered the soldier's American Dreams due to the great abundance of evil which was celebrated throughout the war. The novel The Things they Carried, the movie "Platoon," as well as an actual story from a Vietnam Veteran each, in their own ways, allude to the powerful ability that the Vietnam war possessed to change a soldier's thoughts on life. "How to Tell a True War Story," is an indictment of the war as an honorable pursuit but naturally far from honorable. O'Brien states that "A true war story is never moral. ... This rather lengthy quote is expre...

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In "The Things They Carried", Tim O"Brien wrote about the feelings and experiences of young soldiers in the Vietnam War. ... These tangibles greatly weigh down the soldiers, which in turn makes the Vietnam War even more difficult physically to endure. ... This shows how uneasy he is on the Vietnam battlefield, and O"Brien uses him as a tool to show the way that most of the young men feel in this time. ... War is always physically draining, Vietnam being described as one of the most miserable. ... If a person is unaffected by killing, they war would be more easily bearable for him. ...

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A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo was an interesting story about one man's reflection upon and story of the Vietnam War. ... I chose it because I knew little of the Vietnam War, and thought it would be educational yet interesting for me to read. I also choose it because it was actually written by someone who was in the war. ... In the beginning of the book I could not quite understand his thirst for war and fighting. ... It gave me a better understanding not only of the Vietnam War, but also of the events that take place during a war, and the feelings and actions the soldiers" experience....

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Sun Tzu stated; "The art of war is of vital importance to the State. ... Many people began to worry if the Presidential office would reinstate the draft as did for the Vietnam War. ... It would fulfill the need of a nation military with sufficient numbers of recruits before, during, and after a time of war. Without this we run the risk of losing much more than just a war. ... I disagree with this fact, because all though technology has made vast advancements from what it was during the Vietnam War, you can never replace a pilots' or soldiers' intuition. ...

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This proves to be true in the Vietnam War. In the 1950s the United States began to send troops to Vietnam; throughout the following 25 years, the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in United States history. ... Many of the American soldiers didn't come home from Vietnam, and the ones who survived only survived because they learned to contend with the harshness of war. Walter Dean Myers wrote Fallen Angels, a novel that realistically recounts the day to day lives of a group of solders in the Vietnam War and the way they cope with reality of it; faced with the horro...

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In the short story, "The Things They Carried," Tim O"Brien writes about the soldiers of Vietnam and the self versus war or nature that all of them had to carry with them. ... These material things that they carried showed the reality of the war. Considering that the setting takes place in Vietnam and they are fighting a war, just the atmosphere alone gives the reader an idea of what the soldiers had to experience. When the reader thinks about the Vietnam War, he or she would think of death and destruction and all the terrible things that happen in a war. ...

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Three are the same that the war is bad. The first showing that no one knew why the war was going on not even the soldiers. ... To put the civil rights and the Vietnam war together is two very import things that tie into each other. ... The mane importance of the Vietnam war was this is the only war we lost completely. In Korea we compromised but in Vietnam we fought and lost and there was a great US casualty. ...

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Summary: The Things They Carried is a riveting book in which Vietnam War veteran Tim O"Brien abstractly writes of his experiences in the war. ... As Jimmy Cross continues to march with his men across Vietnam, he becomes more and more lost in his imaginary world where Martha is his wife. ... The only man he killed in Vietnam. ... One that forces him to revisit Vietnam, or, more specifically, the place where he killed the man, to finally achieve peace. ... Through fictionalization it seems the author was finally able to cope with what HE learned in Vietnam; the truth about life. ...

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WAR MAY NOT SEEM REAL REAL TO EVERYBODY BECAUSE THE TRUE MEANING OF WAR LIES INSIDE THE EYES OF THE SOLDIERS. ... WAR MAKES YOU A MAN; WAR MAKES YOU DEAD".BUT TO SUM IT ALL UP, THE TRUTHS ARE CONTRADICTORY. WAR IS GROTESQUE BUT CAN ALSO BE BEAUTIFUL. ... BOB KILEY, THE PROTAGONIST, MENTIONED THAT HE WROTE TO CURT LEMON'S SISTER ABOUT WHAT THEY'VE BENN THROUGH WHEY THEY WERE IN THE VIETNAM WAR. ... WAR IS TERROR. ...

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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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An author named Tim O"Brien wrote about some of the events that took place in the Vietnam War. In his short story, "The Things They Carried," O"Brien wrote a sort of autofiction about some of his accounts in the war. ... First of all, we know that he was a sergeant in the army after he was drafted into the Vietnam War while in his twenties. ... O"Brien was probably in Vietnam for one year, which was the amount of time required from a drafted soldier to serve before he could go home again. ... In his story, he talks about a platoon that is walking through the woods in Vietnam, carrying vari...

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After 4 months of training, he was sent to fight in Vietnam. ... "Born on The Fourth of July," shown the life of Ron Kovic a marine soldier who got paralyzed in the Vietnam War. ... Being in the wheelchair was a reminder of the life he had in the Vietnam. ... Meanwhile, his nephews were playing violent video game of war. ... However, it doesn't matter if a soldier success during the war. ...

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Women In Military Since World War II, women have slowly established their presence in war zones from Korea to Vietnam, Grenada and the Gulf, yet they still face opponents who argue against women in war. ... Thus, women must have equal place in the war as men. First of all, one of the reason why women must serve the front lines in the war is because women in the military are eager to serve their country to the fullest extent possible. ... Since, World War II, eighty to ninety percent of the casualties in conflicts have been civilians and the majority have been women...

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They are expected to make the right decisions even though they personally don't want anything to do with the war, they are simply expected to rise to the occasion. ... Some times these situations occur before they even enter the war, such as in Tim O"Brien's short story, "On the Rainy River". ... He felt that he was "too good for this war, too smart, too compassionate, too everything" (41). ... He made the "right" choice to go and fight in the Vietnam war. ...

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He served three years in Vietnam. ... They are ready to go to war to protect us. ... I don't particularly think that my Uncle Gary influenced our society in any way, but he was part of the whole, part of the US Army that fought in the Vietnam war. ... The sheer number of casualties from that war show us how many people were affected by this war. ... My life was changed forever by this war. ...

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