Characterism In The Boys Of67 : Charlie Company's War In Vietnam

In the middle 1960s, every male in America had to register for Selective Service Draft at age 18. He would then be eligible for the draft and could be inducted into the Army for a period of two years. If you were a college student, you could receive a deferment and would be able to finish college without the fear of being drafted. However, once finished with college, a students name would be put to the very top of the draft list and could be deployed at anytime. The anti-war movement was about young men being drafted and then sent into war that most Americans did not believe threatened the security of the US. The Vietnam War was America’s rebellious war, a war without popular support

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.

In Kyle Longley’s, The Morenci Marines, nine young Morenci boys took the call to duty, not knowing that only three will return from the warzone of Vietnam. These boys, some of who were Native American, Mexican American, and Caucasian, joined the fight in Vietnam despite their social, racial, and economic differences. Although the nine men are from a small mining town in Morenci, Arizona, the Vietnam War was, in the words of Mike Cranford, “a lower middle class war,” that was fueled by small towns all around the United States (Longley, 246). Many of these men felt the call to battle and the will to fight, which was engrained in their heritage and gave these men the right to be Americans. Small town America, mostly lower class, was looked upon to aid the war effort with countless men, where as the rest of the nation, the upper to middle class college educated students, were protesting the war and they believed that it was unjust.

The Things They Carried is a story based on the experiences of young American soldiers fighting during the Vietnam War. The story begins giving you insight into the thoughts of the soldiers, describing to you what they humped along with them through their walk in the deep jungle of Vietnam. Some of those things were necessities P-38 can openers, pocket knives, heat tabs, wristwatches, dog tags, mosquito repellent, chewing-gum, candy, cigarettes, salt tablets (81) and some were objects to give them hope. Throughout the story you follow a young platoon of men on their journey through the jungle never knowing which day could be the last day of their lives. The author, Tim O’Brien, using very accurate description and detail gives us

Throughout history, the United States has only drafted soldiers in two wars, World War 2 and Vietnam. Thousands of teenagers who had just turned 18 were selected to go fight over seas in Vietnam. Soldiers only had eight weeks to prepare before getting deployed into enemy territory. The young soldiers that were drafted were assigned to infantry positions. The horrifying eyewitness accounts the soldiers watched lead to psychological changes in their behavior for the rest of their lives.

Lieutenant Calley grew up in Columbus, George near Fort Benning. “Columbus is a staunchly conservative town of nearly 180,000 people, where a huge billboard proclaims JESUS IS LORD. With landmarks like Arsenal Place and newsstand offerings like the Bayonet and Army Times, it sometimes suggests a military theme park” (Unger). After Calley finished high school he decided to go to college but ended up doing poorly. He moved through several jobs unsuccessfully eventually enlisting in the military. With his firm conservative background, it is no surprise that as the Vietnam War grew and he was unsuccessful in all his other endeavors that he would enlist. He went to basic training at Fort Benning then “after which he was transferred to Fort Lewis, Washington where he trained as a clerk-typist” (Biography). Calley applied to Officer Candidate School, was accepted and completed it in 1967.

Men’s and women’s health and healthcare have been plagued by serious issues in the United States for generations. The articles Men at War: Vietnam and Agent Orange by Cynthia R. Daniels, Masculinities and Men’s Health: Moving toward Post-Superman Era Prevention by Don Sabo, Health Care Reform-A Woman’s Issue by Catherine DeLorey, and Why the Precautionary Principle? A Meditation of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and the Breasts of Mothers by Sandra Steingraber, all center around different issues in healthcare. All the articles focus on the problems of healthcare and how it should be reformed, but two take on the topic of women’s health, while the other two focus their articles on men’s healthcare.

Before the Vietnam War, Americans were naive about the ideas of war. They believed the soldiers were heroes who fought in a glorious and just war, not evildoers who committed acts of inhumanity. Americans were infatuated by the false impression of war they had. This speaks on a greater scale of the level shock they received from learning the true atrocities of the Vietnam War. Young soldiers were not exempt from this realization. In Platoon, Chris Taylor represents this mentality and its deterioration as he faces the grim reality of war.

The lack of patriotism involved in the Vietnam war compared to the world wars making him an abnormality which is explored through his conversation with King and he asks Chris “How the fuck you get over here man, you look like you educated”-King,Platoon hinting at the issue of rich Americans using doctors to avoid service and draft dodgers illuminating the fact that the Vietnam war was primarily being fought by the poor who were forced in through the various drafts “they come from the end of the line, most of 'em, small towns you never heard of”-Chris, Platoon. The position of fresh recruits in the military class structure is the early focal point of the story as it deals with the issue of isolationism that many recruits

An Airman with the 341st Logistics Readiness Squadron made use of his instincts and basic military training skills to rescue a motorist who was pinned underneath a vehicle after an incident April 22.

It’s the high school brand new graduates who don’t see a future working in the world. They see the army as an opportunity. The author demonstrates the young and inexperienced soldiers clearly. The author also shows what it means to have brother hood. The soldiers rely on each other to make it out of Vietnam alive.

Like all cultural products, films have always been implicated in ideology. This was never truer than the period in America between the beginning of WWII in 1937 and the end of the Cold War in 1991. During this time (in 1947) the HUAC or House Committee on Un American Activities held a hearing lasting nine days to uncover those with Nazi ties within the United States. After the committee blacklisted several producers, writers and directors, the state intervened saying that Hollywood was directly responsible as a producer of ideology for domestic and foreign consumption. It was this complicity that essentially silenced the war.

The morning sun was rising over the hilltops to the east of Shochoh with the valley that surrounds it. Just another normal hot day starting in the region as guards made another walk around the encampment to make sure all were safe and secure. The valley was starting to heat up while Eliab and Shammah were walking guard stopped and looking at the Philistines camped across on the other side of the valley from them.

In the third chapter of this documentary we get a closer look at the unfortunate situation in Vietnam. They brought in Gabrielle Union a very well-known actress to highlight the oppression of woman and lack of education in Vietnam. Once again, we see Nick make a value assumption as he talking about trend of girls in Vietnam dropping out of school at a lower grade then their male counterparts. He says this is “because of this Asian son preference”. I do understand that they throw some logical points behind this rational statement but at the same time he is making a massive assumption when he makes a stamen about the values of all the people in Vietnam. I am convinced that not everyone in Vietnam values boys over girls, it’s just not probable.

Situated on the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is the eastern most country bordered by China to the north, Laos and Cambodia to the west, the Gulf of Tonkin and the South China Sea to the east, and the Gulf of Thailand to the south. Prior to the conquest of Indochina by the French, Vietnam was ruled by the Chinese for more than eight centuries. However, after several years of resistance the Vietnamese overthrew the Chinese kingdom in their country and thus became independent. In spite of gaining freedom, the Vietnamese rulers continued to uphold the Chinese system of governance, policy making and also its culture. In fact, most of the Vietnamese were largely influenced by the Chinese culture and religion, mainly Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.