Why Did The Vietnam War Shaped America?

I have always been interested in history and all of he great knowledge it has to offer for our current life. I like learning about how our ancestors did things in their days, and how their decisions helped shape our country today. I believe that the time of the Vietnam War shaped our country in many ways, and most of what happened was not for the better of our country. I chose this topic because it was a very controversial time in America, it was a big learning lesson for America. People look back at this time and they are ashamed to have lived through this, but it’s part of our history and we should be proud to be American’s no matter what happens.
America decided to get in and help the people from communism spreading to the area of Indochina to protect their freedom. We got ourselves into this war in November of 1955, and little did we know we would eventually spend hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of American soldiers would be killed because of this war. Most American’s that survived the war would forever be scarred for life, and they would never be able to live the same again after the horrible things they seen. America feels that they could be the all mighty savior
We were protecting the people of Vietnam’s freedom while the Viet Chong was trying to take over the rest of Vietnam along with other surrounding countries. America was doing good in this war but people back in the main land did not approve of this, because it is not our country so it is not our problem. While we were over their fighting back in the states we were struggling in trying to find a good president to get us out of this terrible war that we should not have been in to begin with. We got close to getting out of the war at peace, but things went terribly