Why Is The Vietnam War So Significant?

The vietnam war was and still is a painful memory to most people in America which had and still has monumental significance today. Socially at the time the vietnam war was divisive and caused protests and marches.Also economically it was just too much money in the wrong place.My third reason for why the war was so significant historically is vietnam syndrome a non medical yet political term referring to Americas aversion to overseas conflict due to the vietnam war.My final reason for the vietnam’s historical significance is politically with the drop in trust domestically. When i talk about significance i need to use a scale and for that i am going to use “Partington's 5 criteria for historical significance”.The scale itself is made from
58,220 Us soldier were killed in Vietnam a massive amount this being greatly significant at the time and quantively . furthermore many who went to fight were drafted meaning they had no choice on whether or not they were going to go fight ontop of being conscripted to fight in this war there were a lot of people who were fighting in Vietnam who had never heard of it, and, according to William Cobb Jr, who fought in Vietnam after dropping out of college, speaking in 2014 at Utah Valley University who said that he thought ‘a lot of people I went to school with wouldn’t even be able to find it on a map. Socially this is a factor of profundity, so many men were drafted to a place they did not know in a war some did not even want to fight this quantitatively and profundity significant the vietnam war caused social divide in the us population.At the time between those who went to fight and their families and those who believed the war was wrong.The evidence of the divide between the american society at the time can be seen through the protests mostly conducted by students and civil rights campaigners themself.One of the most prominent anti war protests occurred in October 21, 1967, as many 100,000 protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial; around 30,000 of them continued in a march on the Pentagon this led to many being arrested.Furthermore on top of this large scale protest one of the most famous of all protests was done by the famous boxer Muhammad ali who resisted the draft and got severely punished getting his title and passport strippped. Socially the vietnam war was significant although not as significant as other things still very significant it cost a very significant amount of lives and ruined a lot more with long term mental illness that led to by 2014 100,000 vietnam veterans had killed themselves as according to alpha