Tom cruise earned his first Academy Award nomination for, “Born on the 4th of July”. His spectacular performance of Ron Kovic, a young Vietnam veteran returning home sums up the Vietnam era. The moves flashes to Vietnam where Kovic experience the atrocities of war before he is wounded and shipped to a VA hospital to recover. The condition of the VA hospital are despicable, rats, broken equipment, and drug use. Most of the people who work there are apathetic, overworked, understaffed, and black. When he begins yelling about Vietnam, one of the orderly tells him there are bigger thing in the world like civil right. He then returns home where is he is further tormented by his guilt after visiting his high school sweet heart at college and eventually,
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Our legislature backed an oppressive leader by giving him the weapons and training he needed to set up his regime. Then, an alleged attack on our navy escalated us into full scale military action. The facts of the supposed attacks are still disputed but, if the Vietnamese were first to fire it would easy to understand why. Our leaders would not tolerate another nation taking the actions that we did in Vietnam but America is a first world country, a super power, and now a moral compass for our planet. The needle of that compass should have been pointed at …show more content…
Four students were killed after the national guard after protesting the Cambodia invasion In Christopher J. BroadHurst’s informative and well written article, We didn’t fire a shot, We didn’t burn a building he states, “For many these actions were the culmination of their repeated protests against the war and a symbolic reminder to the U.S. government and campus administrations of their inherit rights.” Their rights…what about the right of the Vietnamese people to choose their own form of government? Many people were struggling for their “rights” at that time: African Americans and other minority groups were protesting for their rights for years before this incident. Women who had just been given the right to vote in 1919 were struggling for equal opportunity and equal pay, and they still are. Many gays were protesting even though public ridicule and death were huge possibilities. There was an antiwar movement before Kent State but, the government only listened when a bunch of middle and upper class white kids got
Our legislature backed an oppressive leader by giving him the weapons and training he needed to set up his regime. Then, an alleged attack on our navy escalated us into full scale military action. The facts of the supposed attacks are still disputed but, if the Vietnamese were first to fire it would easy to understand why. Our leaders would not tolerate another nation taking the actions that we did in Vietnam but America is a first world country, a super power, and now a moral compass for our planet. The needle of that compass should have been pointed at …show more content…
Four students were killed after the national guard after protesting the Cambodia invasion In Christopher J. BroadHurst’s informative and well written article, We didn’t fire a shot, We didn’t burn a building he states, “For many these actions were the culmination of their repeated protests against the war and a symbolic reminder to the U.S. government and campus administrations of their inherit rights.” Their rights…what about the right of the Vietnamese people to choose their own form of government? Many people were struggling for their “rights” at that time: African Americans and other minority groups were protesting for their rights for years before this incident. Women who had just been given the right to vote in 1919 were struggling for equal opportunity and equal pay, and they still are. Many gays were protesting even though public ridicule and death were huge possibilities. There was an antiwar movement before Kent State but, the government only listened when a bunch of middle and upper class white kids got