American Identity In Vietnam War

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I believe that people from other generations have a different American identity. Some things that could shape that is if the person has been in a war, a different race, or lastly if they are from a different country.
My first reason that people from other generations have an American identity is that if the person had been in a war. This could make Vietnam veterans have a different thought of American identity. This is logical because they had to fight a pointless war, and when they returned from the harsh, grueling jungle they were hated by the American people. They had to risk their lives to be hated on. So by that you could see that the Americans that weren’t in the Vietnam war have different views on American identity. I believe that those

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