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Vietnam War Immigration

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During the Vietnam War 195,000million-430,000million is the estimated amount of innocent civilians who died during the Vietnam War. The war affected the civilians in a number of different ways. From having to move to different countries in order to survive to mass murders in your backyard. The things these civilians faced during this time is unreal; something no one could even fathom. The Vietnam War started in 1954. It was between North Vietnam and the Vietcong (South Vietnamese communists) VS South Vietnam and America. More than 3 million people were killed including 58,000 Americans. The Vietnam War is one of the longest wars America has been a part of. It is also …show more content…

Over the years the population of Vietnamese immigrants in the US increased after the Vietnam War. There were three ways in all of immigrants that came to the US from Vietnam (Batalova, Hataipreuk). There were fewer than a thousand who actually fled successfully. The rest died from starvation, drowning, or pirates (American Relations). The first wave of migration started in 1975 due to the falling of Saigon (Batalova, Hataipreuk). A total of 125,000 refugees fled from Vietnam in hopes of finding a new place to live. They realized that Vietnam was not the place to be because they could no longer survive there. The first wave consisted mainly of political leaders, army officers, and skilled professionals (American Relations). They were considered targets due to their relationships with the government. They had to make sure that they got out alive before anything bad happened to them. The second and third wave of refugees were referred to as "boat people" due to the fact that boats were their only source of transportation they had. Unlike the first wave of refugees who were educated and rich, these were more the opposite; they came from poor rural areas. Even though the first wave had people who were more important to the government, that didn't mean that the regular civilians didn't have to worry about getting killed. No one was safe from the …show more content…

It is the only known injustice, of its kind, that U.S troops committed. There were a group of guys from the "Charlie Company" that were on a special mission that had them "search and destroy." When they were walking around the village they were ordered to kill everyone including children, women, and elders, no matter what. These U.S troops committed an act of dehumanization. For a while there was no one that knew about the massacre except for the ones who were in it. It wasn't until a year later in 1969, when a U.S soldier finally spoke out in an interview and explained what had happened (Trueman). No one knew about it because of some high ranked army officials who wanted to keep it a secret (History). If it wasn't for the soldier who spoke out, is there a chance the world would have

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