The Vietnam war is a black eye in American history. Most soldiers were drapted into the war. Most of the soliders did not believe in the war. However, most Soldiers only had one chance to prove themselves to the platoon leader only one thin line between staying alive or dying. Surviving the Vietnam war was the main focus of the soldiers fighting amongst each other. Some soilders left the battle field with memories, but some soldiers memories faded away. Memories is what united the soldiers after the war was taken place. Focus, survival of war and memories are ways that Vietnam became reunited after the war.During the 1960s, Vietnam was attacked by Northern vietnam because of ho chimia wanted a onified communit Vietnam and other etc. The war took place in south east asia. The troops fought in the jongle of vietnam. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross was the platoon leader, but jimmy never focuses on the war. Jimmy was so focused on Martha and lost control over the most important thing that occurred in the war. Focus, is to connect all your attention on a specific subject and item. Therefore, Protecting his men should have been his main priority. “Lieutenant Jimmy Cross got off track so easily, he “moved to the tunnel, leaned down, and examined the darkness- then suddenly, without willing it, he was thinking about Martha” (O’Brien, Tim, (1986), pg. 398). Losing focus during the war was possible when it came to Jimmy. Jimmy was also a trainer in the army. Jimmy tought the troops strategies
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.
The Vietnam War is widely regarded as the lowest point in the history of U.S. foreign affairs. It mercilessly dragged an unwilling country on a fatal ride for twenty years, all while receiving low approval ratings and high funding. The Vietnam conflict served as an optimum environment for the virus of controversy. No one has more experience with controversy than Heinz Alfred Kissinger. He is the ultimate pragmatist, as embodying his philosophy of realpolitik, a diplomatic ideology based on utilitarianism rather than international ethical standards. When one’s political calling card downplays the role of ethics in diplomacy, that individual is bound to garner a high profile reputation. Kissinger himself has lamented the national predicament during this conflict—squeezed between the ultimate rock, his duty to keep peace, and hard place, his duty to act with the approval of the American people. This predicament was rooted in an omnipresent opposition to Communism, as was America’s role in the entire Cold War. Cold War politics were politics of fear. That fear drove competition, which bred a certain variety of leader – a logical, calculating politician with regard for nothing but his country’s success. To avoid an uncontrollable spread of Communism through the westernized world, some moral casualties were strewn about the wayside. However, the American public had no trouble rolling up their collective sleeves to back this forward-thinking activist. In more recent years, some
The Vietnam War was certainly controversial. There were many protests that erupted across college campuses and throughout numerous town and cities. Many individuals viewed the war as unnecessary and unwinnable. The draft was also very widely criticized and seen as a negative point in the war. The draft was forcing young college students to go fight in dangerous territory. The most controversial aspect of the Vietnam War is certainly that it was deemed unwinnable by the US government, but they still chose to remain in Vietnam and fight. Why was the Vietnam War unwinnable though? Was it actually unwinnable or did the US government
War may seem like a heroic ideal, but the mountain is very steep. George Washington had us settle at Valley Forge in December 1777. Washington had mostly six and nine-month men that are debating to not reenlist. Reenlisting means to stay at Valley Forge and fight in the war, but I am considering to not reenlist. I will not reenlist due to the amount of deaths, lack of money, and the amount of exposure to the harsh elements.
For many, the Vietnam War was unwinnable, I agree with this statement to a large extent. The Vietnam War began on the 1st of November 1955 to the 30th of April 1975. The war killed 521 men and wounded over 3,000 during the 10 long years. The harsh conditions, fighting on enemy soil and the media played a significant role in the failure of preventing the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong taking over Vietnam and turning it into a communist country with fear it could lead to a domino effect.
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.
At the conclusion of chapter three, Paul tells the story of the day before his deployment. In the story, Paul reveals that he and his friends had jumped Himmelstoss and then beaten him up as retribution for all the torture they had been put through. Paul happily explains all the pain that they inflicted on Himmelstoss from Tjaden whipping him to Haie hitting Himmelstoss repeatedly in the face. Personally, I believe that the attack was justified because you should always treat people with respect and dignity or they will treat you without what you believe you deserve. Himmelstoss’s failure to show decency to his subordinates led to Himmelstoss being attacked, so, in a way, Himmelstoss
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.
The war in Vietnam was a liberative exertion with respect to the Vietnamese, from provincial enslavement by western forces like France. Further division among the Vietnamese on political lines saw the heightening of the Cold War with the north accepting backing from comrade associates and the south from the US and other non-socialist nations. The US was vigorously included in the Vietnam War considering the expansive number of assets and troopers conveyed in the war-torn nation. Both sides of the Cold War were included to guarantee that neither benefitted from the political division of the nation to influence it to their side. The US was especially worried about the spread of socialism toward the south, in this way the war served to contain
The Vietnam War, similar to the past wars broke down, had an enduring financial legacy because of the expanded levels of government consumption which was financed by expansions in tax collection from 1968 to 1970. The victory in spending plan deficiencies was driven by both military and non-military expenses in mix with an expansionary financial arrangement that prompted quickly rising swelling in the mid-1970s. Figure six demonstrates the expansion in government spending which crested in 1968. Utilization stayed steady and speculation stayed level. The slight fall in government spending after 1969 and up to 1973 can be credited to falling military use that exceeded the expansions in non-military consumption. Utilization was contrarily
Before the story began, Charlie Wilcox started his adventure at the age of fourteen by being shipped off to England, by a boy with the name of Clint, who tormented Charlie for years before he left for war. In England, Charlie fought many battles, along with his best friend Jim where they made many friends, but died in the war. Now, Charlie and Jim return to their homeland, where their friends and family awaits.
The Vietnam War wasn’t a war that the Americans needed to get involved in because at first it was a war between South and North Vietnam. The Fighting in Vietnam spanned the period 1940-1975. The Americans only got involved in order to help stop the communist North Vietnamese from taking over South Vietnam, America wanted to stop spread of communism. To do the United States military firmly believed in air power, launching major bombing offensives that would leave so devastation behind that craters were formed at the sites where the bombs landed. Since the Vietcong didn’t have technology like the united states they fought a guerrilla war, ambushing US patrols, setting booby traps and landmines, and planting bombs in towns. They mingled in with the peasants, wearing ordinary clothes. The Americans couldn't identify who the enemy was, the mistake the U.S made was underestimated the resists of the Vietcong’s.
The Vietnam War was a 20 year war that changed the ways of how the American military operates. It was the Cold War’s largest war and it was the most notorious. American and Soviet Union armies avoided direct military confrontation, in fear of creating an all-consuming nuclear war. Vietnam had been divided into two halves, and the seed of this war was the communists wanting to take over and have the two Vietnam’s become a communist country. Large attacks on cities had become a turning point, causing the militaries to take action. This war changed the lives of many Americans and Vietnamese forever.
Since the Vietnam War was fought in Southeast Asia, it is difficult for many Americans to imagine what the people of South Vietnam experienced during the Vietnam War. To better understand, the American people had to rely on eye-witness accounts, film clips, and photographs. One photograph in particular captures the horror of the Vietnam War. It is the image of Phan Phuc, a naked, nine-year- old, South Vietnamese girl, taken on June 8, 1972, by Nick Ut. The photograph shows the horrors of napalm, the emotionless soldiers, and photo-journalists, and children suffering.