Congress held meeting. Humphrey broke away from the stance that everyone took and stated, “Well, we have been carrying on some operations in that area, and we’ve been having some covert operations where we have been going in and knocking out roads and petroleum things, and so forth.” The statement from Humphrey went against what the administration tried to do in the meeting, “President Johnson, Robert McNamara, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk were all trying to convince Congress and the American public that the North Vietnamese attacks were unprovoked…” The Gulf of Tonkin started to become something of a mess because of the fact that Humphrey talked about the war plans. American officials who knew of the actual events of those two nights
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More and more sources came out denouncing the authenticity of the events that happened in the Gulf of Tonkin. The people of the United States could see that the events portrayed in Life Magazine and Time Magazine were pumped up to portray a sense of urgency and patriotism for the American people to respond to. One could see just how the public would react to new sources coming out about the events, because protests and anti-war movement were already gaining ground in the United States. Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin incident both had affects on the American people. The United States saw the images of Pearl Harbor and came together with a heightened sense of unity and patriotism for the country. Where as, the Gulf of Tonkin only a select few people knew what happened, and even the people who were there that night and had no clue of the events and what surrounded it. This led the American people to have less unity and patriotic feelings for the U.S. while in Vietnam. The people of the United started to learn how the events played out and they became frustrated and untrusting against the way in which America entered the Vietnam …show more content…
Other non-white peoples of the United States joined in the fight for freedom, but their experiences differed. Mexican-American soldiers, during World War II, did not face segregation within the military, and they placed themselves in the same ranks as white soldiers. Latino soldiers fought on the front lines in integrated units that allowed them greater access to heroism and glory. Also, over 45,000 Native American soldiers served in the United States military. The most prominent of this group were the Navajo Code Talkers. Code Talkers worked within the Marine Corps to transfer messages for troop movement, artillery strikes, and enemy movement, and they used the Navajo language to keep the message encrypted. As African American soldiers started to see the overt racism within the ranks they asked themselves questions, “Right away we said, what are we doing this for?” Questions of race and status started to become clear as African American soldiers took a back seat to the white soldier of America. The white soldier, during WWII, became noticed as the face of the American military, “The White combat soldier was both the face of the war and of masculine-appropriate behaviors.” Not only were the African American soldiers being segregated for their induction into the
More and more sources came out denouncing the authenticity of the events that happened in the Gulf of Tonkin. The people of the United States could see that the events portrayed in Life Magazine and Time Magazine were pumped up to portray a sense of urgency and patriotism for the American people to respond to. One could see just how the public would react to new sources coming out about the events, because protests and anti-war movement were already gaining ground in the United States. Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin incident both had affects on the American people. The United States saw the images of Pearl Harbor and came together with a heightened sense of unity and patriotism for the country. Where as, the Gulf of Tonkin only a select few people knew what happened, and even the people who were there that night and had no clue of the events and what surrounded it. This led the American people to have less unity and patriotic feelings for the U.S. while in Vietnam. The people of the United started to learn how the events played out and they became frustrated and untrusting against the way in which America entered the Vietnam …show more content…
Other non-white peoples of the United States joined in the fight for freedom, but their experiences differed. Mexican-American soldiers, during World War II, did not face segregation within the military, and they placed themselves in the same ranks as white soldiers. Latino soldiers fought on the front lines in integrated units that allowed them greater access to heroism and glory. Also, over 45,000 Native American soldiers served in the United States military. The most prominent of this group were the Navajo Code Talkers. Code Talkers worked within the Marine Corps to transfer messages for troop movement, artillery strikes, and enemy movement, and they used the Navajo language to keep the message encrypted. As African American soldiers started to see the overt racism within the ranks they asked themselves questions, “Right away we said, what are we doing this for?” Questions of race and status started to become clear as African American soldiers took a back seat to the white soldier of America. The white soldier, during WWII, became noticed as the face of the American military, “The White combat soldier was both the face of the war and of masculine-appropriate behaviors.” Not only were the African American soldiers being segregated for their induction into the