Compare And Contrast A Letter Home And Waiting For Dan

In the stories called "Waiting for Dan" and "A Letter Home" will both be talking about the 60's and 70's and what happened and at that time. What people fought over where freedom and there life. That most people didn't really have a life there were treated like slaves. The white people had more power than the black people in the 60's and 70's. That the blacks did the there best for freedom and they put in all that work and they got an answer and that answer was freedom and a real life. The two similar things with the stories “Waiting For Dan” and “A Letter Home” are what is happening in setting. That in “Waiting For Dan” the father leaves his family to go on the bus that was called “Freedom Ride”. This bus was filled with people that wanted to changed everything about who they are because they wanted everyone to be equal in the world. That there is always a time of darkness and that is what happened. “All of this is because my husband is now sitting in a prison in Mississippi.”(2) It shows what was happening and what they did to people that were not white.
There were fights and riots they did this so they can make their soldiers leave the Vietnam War because most of them are dying and they are fighting for no reason. So people fought for that and when the soldiers in the Vietnam War were very disappointed of what was happening back in American because they were fighting the war for no reason and people were fighting over that and killing each other. “No one can explain why 1,000 soldiers were needed to keep “peace” at a small university,and their presence made everyone jumpy.”(1) That in the story “Waiting For Dan” they did the same thing but they blew up the buses and killing and injured a lot of