The war experience in Vietnam followed the same patterns as what one would expect from any war. As with American soldiers during World War Two who went into Europe with every intention of helping to save the world from Nazism, soldiers going to Vietnam, went with high morale and the idea that they were “chosen” by God to play “cop to the Communists’ robber”. The extreme confidence of American soldiers to not only easily defeat their Vietnamese enemies but of their military prowess would be sunken drastically as they spent their first few months in Vietnam and as the war dragged on. The unshakeable patriotism and optimism would turn into cynicism and anger at the government for putting them in the position that they were in and at their enemies
