The book I read was titled Here There are Tigers‚ The Secret Air War in Laos‚ 1968-69. It was written by Reginald Hawthorn and is his personal experience as a Major in the Air Force. I wanted to know an Air Force pilot’s perspective since I read about so much bombing going on during the Vietnam War. He was an FAC (Forward Air Controller) and flew an O-2 single prop airplane during Vietnam from 1968-1969. Major Reginald Hathorn was an instructor at Laughlin Air Force Base when he got the call on Friday
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Ends the Vietnam War The Cold War was a dark time period. Richard Nixon‚ the 37th president of the United States‚ had two wars on his hands. The first war was the fight to defeat the communists‚ and the second war was in Vietnam. The Vietnam War was a difficult war to win because it was against the communists‚ but Nixon found a way to end it. With the help of HUAC he was able to hunt down the communist. A major person he brought down was Alger Hiss. Richard Nixon ended the Vietnam War because
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The Vietnam War‚ a war that costed thousands upon thousands of lives‚ but could we have avoided it all? Could this bloody war have never happened? Congress was wrong in approving the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution‚ for without it millions of lives would have been saved. The Constitution addresses declaring and waging war by saying‚ “Congress shall of the power to declare war”. The constitution gives the right to declare war to Congress‚ so the President is not allowed to declare war unless Congress allows
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In order to understand war one needs to understand the perspective of both sides of the war. The Vietnam War divided the people of the United States into two different groups. The doves were the people who didn’t want the war. They viewed the war as a waste of money on the part of the United States. The doves thought the Vietnam War was a civil war and the people of Vietnam should be solving their disputes without our help. They organized many protests about the war. The doves argued that the
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The Pequot war‚ a war that was imposing that it impacted history. It was a grave war as it had lasted for 38 years and ended in 1675. Some say that this battle between the Native Americans and the Europeans in 1636 ended in the Pequot suffering due to a mysterious death of John Oldham changed America and is now what it is today. After battling over clash of trade‚ land‚ and how the puritans were living‚ they have decided to take action.. This dreadful action was what led to the almost complete devastation
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Wars have been fought since the beginnings of humanity to settle disputes‚ and the core concepts of warfare has not changed for thousands of years. Unfortunately‚ all wars come with a devastating cost the world must pay - the loss of many lives‚ the destruction of environment‚ and a deep wound in society which would take years to stitch back to unity. Between 1955 and 1975‚ the United States participated in the Vietnam War in order to prevent the spreading of Communism by the Vietcong from North
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spinning out of control. He also expressed that he had a plan for ending the war in Vietnam. In the end‚ Nixon’s promises to end the war and restore the nation won him the presidency. On Election Day‚ Nixon defeated Humphrey by more than 100 electoral votes however‚ he won the popular voice by a slim margin of 43% to 42%. After taking office‚ President Nixon is striving to end the nation’s involvement in the Vietnam War. However‚ the final years will yield more bloodshed and turmoil‚ as well as a
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After the Civil war‚ there was a time called the Reconstruction Period. This was a time where both the North and the South resituated after the war. In the North‚ not much changed after the war. Though while their industry progressed‚ they had lost thousands of men during the war. Also‚ very little property in the North was damaged so returning soldiers could go back to their farms or jobs. On the other hand‚ the South had lost many of their men and their slaves. Though the slaves were filled with
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Vietnam War was the wrong war American fought in. It was the first war in America’s history that ended in defeat for both the military and it’s people. Lives were wasted on all sides. This not include the billions of dollar spent on the war that ended in failure. What the Vietnam War did for the first time in our history was dividing our nation into two extreme views about a war. The Vietnam War was so senseless that our nation should not have entered it in the first place. So many lives were wasted
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Vietnam independence was achieved through conflict‚ since western powers responded to anticolonial movements by declaring war two times: 1946 and 1965. During World War II‚ France lost control of Vietnam because the country was defeated by Germany (722). Due to the France defeat‚ Vietnam had a weak internal government‚ which resulted in the invasion of Japanese’s forces into French Indochina (725). In 1946‚ France declared war against the Communist Party of Vietnam‚ led by Ho Chi Minh‚ who was
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