Short Essay: The War In Vietnam

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1965
1965 the war in Vietnam continues to worsen as whatever the Americans do including major bombing of North Vietnam they continue to lose more men , at the same time the Anti-War movement grows and on November 13th 35,000 march on Washington as a protest against the war. There is also civil unrest with rioting, looting and arson in Los Angeles. This was also the first year mandated health warnings appeared on cigarette packets and smoking became a no no. The latest craze in kids toys was the Super Ball and The Skate Board. Fashions also changed as women's skirts got shorter men's hair grew longer as the The miniskirt makes its appearance. The word Hypertext is created to describe linking in early computer systems and computer networking. The St Louis Arch is completed and The Beatles release 4 new albums including "Help".
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Then in the song it says “ still marchen” over and over. This is because it seems like the war was never working so the handsome American boys keep “marchen and marchen”. It talks about how “it's a long hard road” and it was killing people and for as long as they fought it had to have been traumatizing. The men in the war had gone through so much that it was a long hard “road”.

Everything these young american boys did was to get our freedom. Thousands of men never came back fighting for our freedom. Many of the men were so brave for fighting in the long hard war. To many people it was an honor to be able to fight for your country. Many men wanted to join the war so bad that they would lie about age and say they were 18, the song speaks of things like this. There were not really any

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