Joker's Story For The Stars And Strips

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Watching this film told me a little bit more about American during the cold war. Military had to get anyone ready for war and some people couldn’t take the military training. They would get a signed what they were going to do the last day before getting shipped to Vietnam. The military wanted to cover up what’s really happening during the Vietnam. For example, Joker had to change up his story for the Stars and Strips. Stars and Strips was a journalism group made up of soldiers that would write about the war while in combat. They would be in with a group writing about the war as they fought and the also took photos too. The military needed everyone they can have because they don’t know what’s going to go on in Vietnam. They had to be ready for

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