History 122-005
March 30, 2016
Paper 3 In the book The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, he tells the reader about his experiences in the Vietnam War. First, Ninh shows how the Vietnam War impacted the Vietnamese soldiers and the traumatic experiences and emotion hardships they had to go through. Secondly, the Americans also had traumatic experiences like the Vietnamese soldiers but the American soldiers had different traumatic events that messed with there emotions. Finally, the Vietnamese soldiers and the American soldiers had something in common and to deal with the post traumatic stress by writing them out. The Vietnamese and American soldiers both had different traumatic experiences, but they shared a common way to cope with