Narrative Essay: The Vietnam War

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

The Vietnam War started in 1945, resulting in almost 60,000 American deaths and nearly two million Vietnamese deaths, according to Mintze. Years after combat countless Vietnam veterans suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder in every aspect of their lives (Price). Posttraumatic stress disorder is an illness that can happen to anyone who has gone through a horrifying experience. It has been documented in all forms of literature and films the brutality of the war and the side effects it came with. The history of Vietnam is quite long and winding and leaves one to question its purpose (Mintze).

Vietnam was so significant to the United States partly as it would be the first war they would lose. It also had a tremendous financial impact on the country and the casualties were also more in the public eye than ever before due to the media. They learnt that: "a long war for limited objectives, with its steady stream of body bags, will not be supported by the American people" (Martino, 1996, p37). Some suggest that the US should have avoided any involvement in the war.

On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 1821 hours I, Officer Radswillas responded to a vehicle accident on Route 422 West. I found the vehicle on Route 422 in the area of mile marker 170.2 (west of the River Bridge but east of the Stowe Exit).

The two scout Humvee’s pulled to a screeching halt in front of Oceana’s BHC, two of the Marines jumped out and hustled into the clinic. Sergeant Cleo Taylor frantically looked for someone in authority, he approached one of the nurses, “Excuse me ma’am, we’re in from the field, Captain O’Hara sent us over to see your CO. Where can we find him?”

“The war in vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit.” Martin Luther King, Jr. once said. The Vietnam War was considered one of America’s greatest defeats of all time. Not only did the US failed to stop the spread of communism, but they also embarrassed this country as a whole with the outcome of this war. The overall outcome from this war will be remembered for years to come. In this essay, I will be talking about how the United States would have won the Vietnam war if the home front was for the war, if the the US was more familiar with the land, and the U.S.’s goal was not successful.

This is the end, i’m sorry I have to leave you. You have grown so much since the first time I had seen you. I will miss you. At that moment, I realized that I won’t get to see America grow even more than it already has... Ok, before I give away anything else, let’s go to this morning, before all of this happened. It was Friday, April 14, 1865, 7:08am when my wife Mary came into my bedroom and made me the usual breakfast in bed. She got me 1 egg and a cup of coffee. After I got out of bed I went to my office and worked for a while.

Main St. which is North on State Route 924 towards Ringtown. When following the Cavalier your AFFIANT observed the Cavalier drifting and weaving in the lane of travel. Your AFFIANT observed the Cavalier straddling the center lines and fog line. When drifting and straddling the lines your AFFIANT observed the Cavalier cross the fog line and the center diving

On 6Mar18 at 1114 hrs. I, Deputy Halbasch, was dispatched to Co Rd 18 near the lake access to Boulder Lake for a traffic accident.

On arrival at the scene, the sergeant (Z105) would be considering how he is going to contain the incident. The supervisor would assume the role of the PFC, announce to crews that he is the incident commander, PFC, by radio (OPM, s.1.12.3). The sergeant would relay by police radio the following; “I am Sergeant Nick Donald registered number 20813 and I am the incident commander. My callsign is Z105. The situation is this. A collision has occurred between a truck and a train at the level crossing on the Bruce Highway, Cardwell. The mission is to isolate and contain the incident to prevent escalation and ensure assistance is provided to the injured. Inner and outer cordons will be established. Standby, positions and tasking’s are to follow”.

"I'll go around this way" Trey pointed downhill and to the right. The ex-soldier walked back the way he came until trees blocked the raider's truck from sight. The slope was steep enough that he was forced to use the larger trees for handholds going down. At the bottom, he was forced to detour around an extensive, patch of stinging nettle. Patches of paint, belonging to the truck, were noticeable through the greenery struggling for some of the sunlight at the wood's edge.

This paper will be explaining the similarities, and differences, between the Vietnam War and the War in Afghanistan. There are many topics that bring these two wars together. However, I am only going to be talking about public support, policy objectives, military strategy, weapons, fighting spirit, links to home, and death totals. These topics have a lot of information about them, but there is too much to write about every little detail, so I will cover the broad overview of them. Each paragraph will be about one of the topics. There will also be a discussion about insurgencies and counter insurgency operations. These are two big topics in Vietnam and Afghanistan since almost all of the enemy in both wars were, and are, comprised of insurgents and different types of militia groups.

A few cars jostling on their axles as he glanced left, then right as he heard a slow almost teasing groaning and grinding noise, as if something was being compacted just around the corner. His hand reached for the simple Five-Seven standard issue pistol he kept on his person as he darted around the corner.

In the 1950's, the United States had begun to send troops to Vietnam and during the following 25-year period, the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in US history. Almost 3 million US men and women were sent thousands of miles to fight for what was a questionable cause. In total, it is estimated that over 2 million people on both sides were killed.

Standing up and stretching her arms until hearing a satisfying pop, clearly know that it was unhealthy for her, since her back was hurting a lot more nowadays. The female opened up her wardrobe, to see her clean uniform hanging on clothing rack. Unbuttoning