The Vietnam War started on November 1, 1955. 9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the Vietnam Era. Those that went into the war zone suffered, not only from wounds but also from a variety of jungle diseases and malnutrition. One of the few sources of clean water came from water purification tanks at Vietnamese refugee camps.Preventive medicine teams worked to control rodent and insect infestations, spray for malarial mosquitoes, and purify unclean water.
Navy medical personnel were able to stabilize and treat most casualties and perform minor surgery, but the more serious cases were medevaced to other treatment facilities in Japan or in the continental United States. A five-story, concrete building, located on Tran Hung Dao, was the Navy’s only hospital. From the day it opened, it began to receive American combat casualties directly from the field. In 1964, the Navy assigned Lieutenant Commander Bobbi Hovis, one of the first Navy nurses to volunteer for service in Vietnam, to Saigon. With her commanding officer and fellow nurses, Hovis helped set up Station Hospital Saigon. As she settled into the daily routine of providing medical care to U.S. military personnel, the security situation in South Vietnam’s capital changed dramatically.
Diseases accounted for a good deal of the hospital’s day-to-day work. Malaria was endemic and everyone had to take precaution. Infectious hepatitis was not uncommon, and all personnel had to receive immune globulin
He feels Yanagi’s pain through the connection but he does not draw attention to it. To be in the heat of a powerplay game such as the one boiling over in Konoha right now is a moment of extreme delicacy and ruthlessness; attachments are withheld, persons numbed down. The rampant mentality is this: eliminate those who are likely to get in one’s way, even if they are friends, or valuable allies. Nobody who lived through the Warring States Era would be unfamiliar with this tenet: do what must be done. And if Tobirama was forced to choose among the Yamanaka twins, he would keep Yanagi alive, simply because she is now the more valuable of the two, even though Yanagi herself and most definitely, not Osamu, would admit it. For to dabble in politics is to know who has value, worth and utility, and who do not.
During the Civil War nurses served in the Confederate and Union hospitals. Other than working in the hospital taking care of wounded soldiers they also served near the front line of the battle and on the battlefield. After the war had begun Simon Cameron, Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln, gained so much respect for the women nurses that he appointed Dorothea Dix as “Superintendent of Women Nurses for the Union Army.” Although, Dorothea Dix did not have the proper education prior to her new role as superintendent, she however, had obtained organizational skills by work in a “prison and asylum taking care of the mentally ill.” Dorothea Dix took the the role of superintendent of Union nurses very serious. Dix set quite a few rules and regulations for women who volunteered as nurses. “Dix wanted a minimum age of thirty for her volunteers and she demanded they are plain looking women.” Dorothea Dix was indeed a hard working woman who wanted to strive for the best.
These early nurses were quickly educated on the rigors of war and the primitive accommodations. Hundreds of women lasted little more than a month and for those that did last the work became gratifying and their Christian mission. At the bloodiest moments of the war, nurses braved heat of moment and offered selflessly to treat injured. These ladies
negligently cared for and the hospital itself had a lack of basic essentials ( McDonald,L
Nurses within the South did find it hard to remain objective when faced with the task of treating an enemy soldier. Cumming, clearly noted this conflict when she discovered that there were two Union prisoners of war assigned to her ward:
In the history of the United States, few years could be viewed as being more important than 1968. While there were years in American history of great significance, 1968 has the distinction of being a year in which civil unrest, social progress, and the state of change were the norm, and featured events that affected not only America, but the world as a whole. With the condition of America at the time, society was going through changes that would go on to have massive impact on how the world would progress, with some of these events having effects years afterwards.
Cellular telephones, Pepsi Max, and Pacemakers- all of these were invented in Jerald Brenhofer’s lifetime1. From the invention of cellphones that allowed him to talk with his expanding family as it spread beyond his physical reach to Boston and Chicago, to his favorite soda, Brenhofer lived a rich life, full of his favorite things and people. Born in 1942, in the throes of World War II and the lingering aftershocks of the Great Depression, the movement of social and technological change that Brenhofer experienced was more than a quantitative list of advancements and historical events, but the melding of the two into a continual and formative span of life.
As a society, we are gradually losing faith in our political system. We live in a country casted by a shadowed of dark cloud, clouds of lie and arrogance. The Vietnam War, a war in which we are set up to believe is a war against communist, a war in which the United States felt they could have won, yet didn 't. We brainwash our children to believe that the Indians and the pilgrims enjoyed a festive celebration yet we don 't acknowledge that we wiped out almost their entire population and take over their land. The foundation of our political system is based on sovereignty and equality where every votes count yet we all know that the country wealthiest corporations and non-profit organizations influence the political system. Their money and domination control who is elected into office thus making the rest of the country unwilling to cast their vote. Under the constitution, we are programmed to trust and believe in our political system, that all man are created equal, yet history have proven endless counts of racism and hatred in our country. since the assembling of our Constitution, we have not strive far from the inequality and control that we have set out to change. The United State is still trapped in the past.
All the principals on the western front drew on large numbers of nurses to serve in military hospitals during World War I. Women played an essential role in helping and saving other’s lives. They often performed dangerous work and experienced the horror of the war first hand. There were thousands working as untrained midwives and nurses in everyday civilian life. As war approached, there was only three hundred experienced professionals. Nurses, in most cases, were not warmly welcomed. Throughout World War I, nurses and women faced many challenging battles with diseases and
The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial wars that was fought. Not only was North and South Vietnam involved, but also the United States and others. A common myth is that the Vietnam War was less intense than World War II. In the Vietnam War, those wounded or killed was more than 300% higher. With South Vietnam’s lost in this war, the country today, is a communist country. The Sorrow of War is a story of a North Vietnamese soldier, Kien, during and after the war. The story illustrates how Kien goes through his life living with PTSD and having flashbacks of the war and he becomes an author. The Sorrow of the War stayed mostly true to what happened in Vietnam War. Kien went through diseases, talked about the battles of the Vietnam War, and the effects of the war.
Arrowood, Janet. Vietnam . Edison, NJ: Hunter Publishing, 2009. eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 1 Oct. 2015.
I would consider these conflict war, but we are fighting small "countries". We are not fighting super powers, that have a large military capabilities. As long as we avoid stepping on Russia's toes while fighting in the middle east, it will not cause WWIII. American's imperialistic ideas seem to do more harm than good, but as long as we are fighting "nobodies", we will not have a world war. We must be careful as we take actions in Syria as Russia has interest there. Other than that, there is no major threat.
The Vietnam War is a very interesting topic. Even today, it’s legacy still goes on. The Vietnam War has greatly impacted not only Vietnam, but also the rest of the world — the West in particular.
Interviewed in Paris where he was residing, Bui Tin (a former colonel in the North Vietnamese Army) told Stephen Young, a Minnesota attorney and human rights activist: “…Gen. (Vo Nguyen) Giap (commander of the North Vietnamese Army) believed that guerrilla warfare was important but not sufficient for victory. Regular military divisions with artillery and armour would be needed. The Chinese believed in fighting only with guerrillas but we had a different approach…” (See (15) below on the Communist conquest of China in 1948—49)
Vietnam resembles the shape of a seahorse that stretches southeast into the Pacific Ocean; Vietnam is known as to as the “balcony of the Pacific.” By way of its water transportation links that were developed prior to rail and road networks, Vietnamese migration pressed southward (Nam Tien) along the coast. (Taus-Bolstad, 2006) Distinct regions meant that trade was more than a means to establish national unity within a dispersed settler society. (Taus-Bolstad, 2006) A geographical division of resources meant the North controlled most of the raw materials while the South served as the breadbasket. (Taus-Bolstad, 2006) The two-decade partition during the Cold War forced both the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN) in the North and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) in the South to rely on outside sources of assistance. This continued after reunification in 1975 until the effects from the market reforms (doi moi), which were implemented in 1986, spread throughout the economy. Vietnam’s capital Hanoi distinguished its millennium anniversary in 2010, making it one of the oldest capitals in Southeast Asia. (Staff, 2009) It grew into the capital of Vietnam under the first emperor of the Ly Dynasty (1009–1225) who named it Thang Long (Rising Dragon). The city went several other name changes before finally becoming Hanoi, “the city amid waters,” owing to its location on the Red River Delta. In the 19th century when the country unified under the Nguyen Dynasty, the