official end of the Vietnam War‚ Mayor Edward Koch of New York City appointed a task force of twenty-seven leading citizens of the city to develop a framework for a fitting memorial to Vietnam War veterans. The memorial was to be a glass-block structure etched with excerpts of letters sent to and from servicemen during the Vietnam War. Due to the overwhelming response to the commission’s request for letters‚ Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam came to be. Consisting of 208 letters‚ poems‚ and journal
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Letters Home From Vietnam Review The powerful emotions triggered through watching this film can be acknowledged without question. What I found the most interesting was the use of real news footage from that time period that aired on major news networks‚ swaying people’s opinions about our justification for being in Vietnam. Being able to view that gave me a 1st hand look into soldiers’ opinions of the war as well as protests and how they differed then. The actors reading the leaders with pure emotion
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as well as fictional novels‚ the Vietnam War was considered to be a war unlike any other. Many soldiers faced untold brutal challenges‚ and often wondered who the enemy really was. In many depicted pieces of literature such as Fallen Angels the fictional stories cannot begin to compare to the real traumatic ones. Research has shown that the traumatic circumstances have caused soldiers mental stress. Research shows the brutality that the soldiers of the Vietnam War went through‚ the novel Fallen
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you ever suffered from hunger? Have you ever experienced severe poverty? Today I’m going to tell you about the miserable story of one child living in developing country. It is about the special letter I received from a child who I’ve been supporting. As you see‚ this letter is just a simple drawing of a flower. Just a flower with small leaves on it. The flower is colored with red crayon and the leaves are painted untidily with green. But there’s no more than a flower. The letter is mostly filled with
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Dear Mom and Dad‚ Hey! I miss you all so much. Every day I think about you guys and the rest of the family! I’m sorry that I haven’t written to you all in a long time! A lot has been going in the past few weeks. The war out here in Vietnam is mostly what I expected. Our enemy‚ the Viet Cong‚ wants to spread communism throughout South Vietnam. In order to do so‚ they need to beat us. The Viet Cong knew that they had to engage in guerrilla warfare‚ which is a style of fighting that relies on the element
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America in Vietnam: The War at Home There were several administrations and policies leading up to the war in Vietnam. Under President Truman the United States developed a policy of containment during the Cold War in an attempt to contain communism in the Soviet Union. During President Eisenhower’s administration the foreign policy of containment was expanded to a military strategy of deterrence. The United States believed in what they called the Domino Theory‚ wherein if Vietnam was to fall entirely
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justify their actions and regain a sense of themself when seeking to dissolve their guilt in war. Why do soldiers attempt to morally comprehend the conduct they are forced to participate in? In Edelman’s text Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam the readers are instantaneously thrown into letters depicting how soldiers struggle with their humanity after the abhorrent acts of war they are conscripted to partake in. Seeing this‚ the readers are forced to see the emotional sides of the soldiers and cannot
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Summary of Dear America‚ “So Far from Home” “So Far from Home” starts with Mary Driscoll at home in Ireland where her family and neighborhood are poor and hungry. Mary got a letter from her aunt‚ with a ship ticket in it. It meant she could come to America. Her aunt had been there for six years. Aunt Nora earned enough money so Mary’s big sister Kate to come‚ first. Then they earned enough money for Mary to come. They are trying to get the whole family over to start a new life. Mary’s mom thought
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Topic 1: My Holiday Dear Mary‚ Thank you for your letter. I have just returned home from my holiday in Nha Trang. It is a great city by the sea and my trip was lovely. I went to Nha Trang with my very best friends and we stayed for seven days in Golden Sea Hotel. In the morning‚ we got up at 8:00 o’clock‚ had breakfast and went to the beach. About 2.00 pm‚ we had lunch in the hotel’s restaurant.Every day after lunch‚ we travelled to a various of places near Nha Trang‚ such as Vinpearl Land‚
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O’Brien and the documentary “Dear America: Letters Home to Vietnam” the central feelings of fear and trepidation were prominent. As a reader‚ or viewer‚ I was able to take the feelings of the soldiers during the Vietnam War and translate it in a way to relate it to my own life. During Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and the documentary “Dear America: Letters Home to Vietnam”‚ I experienced many different emotions that were brought on by the situations presented. From the very beginning of the
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