John McCain‚ a current senator of Arizona ‚ the 2008 Republican presidential candidate‚ and a former lieutenant commander Navy flier during Vietnam‚ was taken by the North Vietnamese in 1967 (McCain‚ Kelly). McCain was a young father and husband at the time‚ and the torture McCain experienced made him wonder if he would ever see his family again. McCain suffered from starvation and three broken limbs. The North Vietnamese often used McCain’s injuries as an advantage to create ultimatums against
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just how bad and long this war would drag on. Many questions are still unanswered today. Why did America participate in this war? Why were our soldiers treated with such disrespect and unwanted love? The many lives that were lost‚ including our troops‚ cannot be brought back. This history cannot be change. But if we could go back in time. Would United States choose the same decision? Many things have gone wrong in this war. And this so call "war"‚ is the fight of Vietnam war. One of the many things
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The Vietnam War lasted from November 1955 through to April 1975. During this time almost 1.5 million people were killed including both soldiers and civilians. Towards the end of the 1960s the public began to be less approving of the war at hand starting many Anti-War Movements‚ which many popular musicians of the time joined as a voice of the masses. The Beatles were one of the many musicians who joined the protest against the Vietnam War. They formed in Liverpool‚ England‚ during 1960 voicing
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When Questioned‚ "Why do you not like talking about the war and things that happened back then?" Telly Robbins‚ a Vietnam veteran answered "I don’t want my kids or wife to know of the things I had once did‚ I don’t want them to think of me as a monster. I also do not want to relive things that happened". While he explained his feelings‚ fear and sadness could be heard mixed in with his voice‚ this sadness was egregious‚ even though it was almost ephemeral and could not be noticed to the hoi polloi
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Platoon was a movie of the 1980’s that focused on the Veitnam war. Platoon was written as an anti-war film‚ showing a lot of the negitive aspects of the war. Platoon was a special film because of the 360 degree filming style that shows all angles of the war. The film was written and directed by Oliver Stone‚ who fought in Vietnam. He had a dream to make a movie about the war that is not fictional but how he actual remembered the movie. This movie has a sumwhat hard to fallow plot trying to emulate
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April 30‚ 1975 the date that goes into the history of South Vietnam and the minds of many South Vietnamese as well as many Vietnamese-Americans. Especially‚ war veterans like Senator John Mc. Cain‚ this day remind him of a most painful memory‚ bruised and bitter feelings. On that day‚ North Vietnamese communist troops triumphantly rode T-54 Soviet-made tanks in column on one main street of Saigon leading to the South Vietnamese Presidential Palace‚ called "Doc Lap" (Independence) Palace. The tanks
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gmade was that because of Vietnam war the economy will continue to get poor. Instead of America using its funds for energies in rehabilitation‚ they had excessive use of men and money to contribute to the war‚ only making matter worse. He is explaining that America were irresponsible by using their resources‚ time and energy. Instead of helping‚ they were causing the country to lose more money and men. Martin Luther King stated “So‚ I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor
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involvement in the Vietnam War was the event/action that caused Australian society to change. The Vietnam War was the major push or an impetus for change in Australia and gave the new counterculture great momentum that eventually helped the counterculture to challenge the government and contribute to change in Australia. The result was a dramatic change in Australia’s society‚ irrevocably changing the once conservative culture to today’s modern multi-cultural society. The Vietnam War was the spark that
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This investigation will seek to answer the question: “How did Operation Rolling Thunder result in the prolonging of the war during the period of Johnson Presidency.” This investigation will evaluate the reason for Operation Rolling Thunder in the prolonging of the war. Operation Rolling Thunder began in 1965 under the approval of President Lyndon B. Johnson‚ during the Vietnam War. I chose this question because‚ it is important to note how political agendas and policy influences the value of a military
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Why did the US lose the war in Vietnam? When the year 1973 came around‚ the most powerful economic and military force America‚ were being forced to come to terms with the fact that they had suffered defeat in their war in Vietnam. Despite the vast gulf in financial and military prowess which swung in favour of the Americans‚ 57‚000 of their troops1 had lost their lives or were missing in action2‚ in a defeat so unanimous that the American armed forces today‚ use Vietnam as their key example on how
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