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For example, in “A Time to Say No”, Michael Ferber is able to express why many Americans choose to defy the draft (197-199). However, while these individuals have their ethical reasons for not joining the army, they are unable to give eye-witness accounts to the atrocities preventing them from going. When Herr tells fellow journalist Sean Flynn “about the colonel who had threatened to court-martial a spec 4 for refusing to cut out the heart of a dead Viet Cong and feed it to a dog”, readers have a greater idea of the sacrifices that soldiers must make while on tour and why people would avoid the draft (204). While there were many other correspondents also covering from the ground in Vietnam, Herr’s tale is different because it becomes in the form of memoirs, not as a news report or magazine article covering factual information surrounding the war. Herr is not only able to cover the war from the journalistic standpoint, but is also able to add color and a behind-the-scenes view to his commentary. For instance, Herr describes Colonel David Lownds by saying, “His professed ignorance of Dien Bien Phu drove correspondents crazy, but it was a dodge. Lownds knew very well about Dien Bien Phu and what happened there, knew more about it than most of the interviewers” (144). With members of the military actively trying to control media perception, it becomes easy to see how the war quickly became distorted in the eyes of the American public. Through Herr’s unique insight, Dispatches ultimately becomes an important tool in understanding the realities of the Vietnam

In the work, And Keep Moving On, Mark Grimsley presents a study on the Virginia Campaign that is both pleasant in readability and substantial in material. While numerous historians and enthusiast have covered the Civil War, Grimsley’s work offers clear and distinct coverage that assists the reader in identifying the political backdrop to the conflict and a play-by-play report of military tactics. He remains fair to both Grant and Lee as he takes the scholar through Battles such as Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and The Wilderness. As this is one book in a collection, Great Campaigns of the Civil War, dedicated to the war as a whole, Grimsley’s focus remains set to a short period of six weeks beginning in May of 1864.

They hear a bugle call and are ordered to march to Gettysburg as quickly as possible. News spread that George McClellan is back in charge of the Union

The second attitude expressed by the citizens of Richmond was optimism about the Confederacy beating the Union and being a recognized nation. The Daily Richmond Enquirer had multiple articles about the stance of the European nations on Confederate recognition. The Confederate home front was very optimistic that European nations would recognize the Confederacy quickly. The home front knew that if the Confederacy was recognized as a nation by the European powers, then the Union would also be forced to recognize them as well. They also knew

When Pearly Harbor was attacked, America’s isolation had ended and they were thrust into a war that they did not want to be in once again. As war began to progress American men were needed for war. Many began registering, however the U.S needed more men. This lead to President Roosevelt declaring the first peacetime draft, which required men eighteen to sixty-four to be registered in war. Deuteronomy 20:4 says “For the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory”. The American military soon began to boom with more and more men registered in the military, roughly ten million soldiers had entered the war through the draft. America now faced a big task of raising and training a credible

Hurst wrote about Civil War battles he was in and mentions the propaganda he witnessed over a four-year span. He remarked how outlandish the Southern newspapers were. It is unusual for a general, who is amongst the chaos of the war, to notice something seemingly trivial. “We are daily in receipt of newspapers of Augusta and Savannah, and of the rural districts, which our foragers bring in; and we laugh ourselves to tears sometimes at their ‘last ditch’ literature. Half-scared to death, and yet boastful and defiant, they exhibit a rich combination of the coward and the braggart” (Hurst, 2012, p. 159). While being in the middle of the war, Hurst had a unique viewpoint that most other journalists missed, ignored, or failed to write about. It is unusual to look at the Civil War as a propagandist war, yet multiple current sources allude to that. Hurst’s realization was quite telling; now historians whom examined the press after the war are able to see the blatant transparency. “To modern readers, the acerbic tone of the era’s reporting seems more akin to partisan propaganda than objective journalism” (Davis & Robertson, 2009, p. 35). This further reiterates what Hurst picked up on and shows how both the North and South journalists wrote in a propagandist tone.

For as long as man has walked upright on this earth war and death has been a normal part of life, from the Romans watching gladiators fight to their death, all the way to the Salem witch trials it seems to be human nature to have a fascination with such disasters. The Civil war was no different, for diplomacy and propaganda would be equally as vital as the bombs and bullets in determining which side arose victorious. The outcome that ensued was Civil War propaganda on a colossal scale. Propaganda is one of the most widely exploited and effective political tactics still used to this day. These articles and illustrations purpose is to alter the audiences opinion about a certain topic, while most were meant to be used as entertainment a fraction of what was produced was used either for the Confederates or the Unions own agenda.

declared war and entered WWI. The propaganda from “Wake Up, America!” and “Let’s All Be American’s Now” pushed the people into wanting to go to war. Wilson’s message to congress pushed congress to declare war, and “Returning Soldiers” gave the people one of many reasons to fight. Ideas of nationalism rose in people, but not always in the correct way. The Schenck Case was a Supreme Court case against Charles Schenck, who printed fifteen thousand copies of a pamphlet against the draft that was happening. In this pamphlet, it said that Americans should fight against the draft. Nationalism came from the decision to fight in the war, or not to fight in the war. It said the draft would ruin the country, and it was against democracy, and freedom of choice. By not being drafted, it said that the people must use their rights to not be drafted into war, because war was not meant to be fought by the U.S. This was taken to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Opinion said that he could think this way, but he was not allowed to speak it and try to convince anyone else of these ideas. This argument in the U.S. if people should be drafted and if they should be able to criticize the war continued. “The Military Representative” was a criticism of the difficulty of exemption in the military in Britain. It tells about three men, one with a wooden leg, one dead, and one who was ninety-one. These men were all trying to be exempted from the military, and while the chairman said they were free to leave, they were not allowed because a military representative would not allow

In this book, Smith takes a raw and personal perspective, sharing anecdotes and stories that simply are not present in newspaper dispatches about the war. Smith makes his case very solid and appealing because he always backs up his judgments and conclusions with personal stories of

O’Brien’s provocative statements about the draft, combined with Chen’s assessment of the definition of exile in the novel, reveals a disconnect between the idealized hero of soldiers in the American imagination with the reality of those who joined the draft. The public being largely uneducated and indifferent about the causes of the Vietnam War at the time, people largely joined the war solely to avoid the prejudice placed on people who actively refused to participate. O 'Brien reveals through this example that when faced with societal pressure, people are capable of participating in horrific activities such as a gruesome, bloody war that they would never otherwise agree to.

“To arms! Your Country calls!” was that slogan that echoed through the streets of every American city in the spring of 1861. On April 12, Confederate forces fired shots against the Union held Fort Sumter. Seven states declared secession from the Union before the battle, and four more seceded after. The American Civil War had begun, and the urge to fight swept over the divided country’s young men like wildfire. From all walks of life, men “charged by emotional oratory” (Robertson Jr. 20), joined ranks to live the romanticized life of a soldier, and assumed the war would be over in 90 days or less. However, what most found, if not an early death, was that the war would drag on for four years. Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands “citizen soldiers” met their country's call to defend their way of life, typically in state volunteer militias, and this required organization in the federal army to ensure efficient distribution of manpower.

In chapter one, Beat! Beat! Drums!, of Randall Fuller’s From Battlefields Rising, (2011), the author demonstrates the affect in which literature had on the nation before and after the outbreak of war so that the reader will realize how large of a role literature had in the citizens perception of war. Fuller uses excerpts of writings form authors such as Emerson and Whitman to show how writers romanticized America’s potential for greatness after the conflict between North and South was resolved; and to show how after the war began everyone realized its truly violent and deadly nature. Fuller does this in order for the reader to understand that literary works were a profound part of the culture surrounding the war before and after it began. I

Around the time Joseph enlisted in the army, President Richard Nixon began working on establishing the All-Volunteer Armed Force (AVF), which would rely on volunteers to make up the armed forces and end conscription. Many worried that the AVF would result in an unskilled, mediocre army or that few men would volunteer because the Vietnam War was an unpopular war (Warner). However, these qualms were proven wrong (Warner). In fact, the All-Volunteer Armed Force has been so successful that contemporary America continues this practice. For this reason, there has been a rise of military propaganda. In addition to that, many Americans are attracted to joining the forces because of the GI Bill (Bailey).

When Joseph’s friends who had served as soldiers came back to home, they shared their thrilling adventures with him. Some of these veterans voluntarily enlisted while others were drafted. According to statistics, “2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers [whereas] 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were drafted” (“Statistics about the Vietnam War”). Within the decade in between the end of World War II (1939-1945) and the beginning of the Vietnam War (1955-1975), there was a dramatic shift in men’s willingness to go to war, presumably due to the GI Bill that was implemented towards the end of World War II. However, regardless of how his friends ended up in the army, they all shared similar positive experiences with Joseph. Some of them had fought in Vietnam; others had traveled to U.S. military bases in countries such as Germany and Japan. Captivated by their war stories, Joseph decided that joining the army would be his ticket out of the cold, dreary city of Utica, New York.

Now-a-days people read the newspaper on the internet, rather than on just reading an actual newspaper. On November 5, 1997, Minnehaha County may add a public defender office to help people who cannot afford a regular lawyer. (Olson 2D). That same day, the sheriff and police departments will divide $200,000 in grands for equipment. The equipment was were going to enhance the technology of the departments (Kibiger 2D). One of the bigger stories that day was First Premier Bank being accused of misusing trust money to develop a business that was worth millions (Swenson 1A).