Reflective Essay: My First 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

I was well on my way out of Oklahoma. I had to leave my property to get away from the dust, and hopefully make it to California to start a better life. I was one of the 2.5 million people that went to California during the exodus. As I drove along a dirt road I had realized that my gas tank was empty. I had only a couple cents left which wouldn't be enough to fill my gas tank back up.

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.

It has been known that the Vietnam War affected many American soldiers who were involved in the war physically and psychologically. The Vietnam War was one of the most memorable wars in history. Many Americans’ lives lost for no objective at all. Chapter 10 informed us about how the Vietnam War started and what really happened during that time. It also gave us background information about Vietnam Veterans and nurses who were involved in the war and what they went through during the war. I had the opportunity to interview a Vietnam Veteran also.

After war hit, virtually everything was deteriorated. In a four-mile radius from where I stand, not a single architecture except for the government buildings and makeshift shops are still structurally sound. Families are forced to survive, father's craft shelters for their families out of the detritus that remains. Children, including ages of even six years, sleep deprived due to labor, desperately attempt to rest on empty, dented, bed frames. The only people that have real, formal shelters are the aristocrats that pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire a room in a government shelter and the government families.

I am William (Billy) Tu and it is June 3rd, 1963 in Vietnam, these summer days burn the skin like eggs on a skillet. I had to push through it though and it doesn’t help my squadmates continuously gave me shit for my enethisity due to my mother being Vietnamese and my father for marrying her, but if they ever knew her they would feel bad for talking about her that way, she is the nicest most kind hearted woman you would meet. I was tired of

We narrowly made it out of the airport. Hank almost got taken down because he got distracted. These infrasound weapons were devastating, but had a major drawback, one that almost cost my best friend his life.

“It’s been an honor serving with you my friends.” Commander Shepard says as the Teeth Monster devours the whole entire chopper in one bite.

They were everywhere we went. We ran down the dark alley. They were right behind us. We turned down another alley only to find a dead end. They were already walking towards us, blocking the only exit. We were surrounded. There was nothing we could do. We were out of ammunition and had no other weapons. I stood in front of the group ready to protect them at all costs.

So when he told me that the end of the war would be a peaceful and glorious time I believed him with all my heart. And so did everyone else. But as time has gone on I’ve learned that to only be halfway true.

Then I volunteered for Vietnam, at age twenty-two in 1963, nine months after I was first discharged. “ I join the war because I felt like it had previously served and made it out”. In 1966, the air war entered a new phase. Hanoi and Hai phong waited for the first time. Cries of exclamation and dissent really were worn out through the US and around the world. By the end of 1966, fighting had reached major proportions. Over 55,000 communist, 9,500 South Vietnamese, and 6,053 u.s. soldiers were killed in action.”

One day a boy name Matt got a game called Fortnite, but he fought it the ground and the front of the box destroy this at all cost, so he brought it home being stupid and start and second he start it play a light, and he disappeared. When Matt woke he was in a strange land where everything look weird, and Matt realizes he in the game. Matt knew how to play a bit he thought so he got on the bus a went to Tilted Towers, and fought a pump and bandages. Then the run from his life.

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.

The guild reported that we only had a few blocks left of Langley center before we had reclaimed the entire town. There may be a few stray houses on the outskirts, but overall it was all ours. This was exciting news, since if we controlled all of the town it was more likely it would remain ours. We could live almost normally, especially with the stable food supply that we had. The next morning, however, explosions riddled against part of the wall on the west side, and the Zed overran about six blocks before they were shut down. I can only think it was the same person who tried to sabotage the helicopter. The guild seems fairly confident that they’ll be able to salvage the damage, but our town rebuilding is going to take a little longer than originally anticipated. The helicopter was finished by the end of that week - It looks like luck has not completely left us. This allowed us to travel to the further places a little faster, not to mention having a birds eye view allowed us to scope the lay of the land and how many blocks

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.