War is something that has divided everyone in every way since the dawn of time. Since Mesopotamia and its constant raging of battle, and up to the ongoing Yemeni civil war, either you’ve been for war or against it. It tends to be along the lines of if you’re raised in a god-loving home where your dad is the breadwinner, and your mom stays home to take care of you because that’s just “how it is” you might think war is always necessary and the lives that it costs are for a good cause. If you’re from a family where either your entire family or you personally are in a minority, you might be along the liberal side and therefore like to remain at peace, because war is senseless deaths and violence. And of course, there will be people from both sides
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Living in the north, and having her father fight for the NVA, she remembers hearing the word “communism” often. Her parents would say it, but never explain what it meant. But in truth, her parents didn’t know what it mean either. They were fighting for the reunification of their country, and independence they’ve been longing for since the French enslaved the nation. Hoa knew it was something that they had to do, fight for their freedom. But if America said they were the country of freedom, why were they trying to stop it? All they wanted was to live in a government where the leaders understand what the people want, not like the president put in place in the south by the name of …show more content…
And being a white male I’m not really in any minorities, but I think the Vietnam War was dumb. I just think war in general is dumb, but I couldn’t tell you how to stop it. Just the acts of malicious aggression committed during war which seem to be pardoned much more than they would be if it was a citizen committing it makes me angry. Maybe it’s because I’m a person with morals and compassion, but I don’t see how someone could just kill without being almost brainwashed. And like I said in our solution project for how to not send troops to Vietnam, I don’t think we should’ve gotten involved in the first place. It’s like instead of just letting the unstable southern government fall right away, and unifying the countries, we were trying to let it down slowly, but ended up dropping it from higher. Like said in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
- i. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
- ii. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of
Living in the north, and having her father fight for the NVA, she remembers hearing the word “communism” often. Her parents would say it, but never explain what it meant. But in truth, her parents didn’t know what it mean either. They were fighting for the reunification of their country, and independence they’ve been longing for since the French enslaved the nation. Hoa knew it was something that they had to do, fight for their freedom. But if America said they were the country of freedom, why were they trying to stop it? All they wanted was to live in a government where the leaders understand what the people want, not like the president put in place in the south by the name of …show more content…
And being a white male I’m not really in any minorities, but I think the Vietnam War was dumb. I just think war in general is dumb, but I couldn’t tell you how to stop it. Just the acts of malicious aggression committed during war which seem to be pardoned much more than they would be if it was a citizen committing it makes me angry. Maybe it’s because I’m a person with morals and compassion, but I don’t see how someone could just kill without being almost brainwashed. And like I said in our solution project for how to not send troops to Vietnam, I don’t think we should’ve gotten involved in the first place. It’s like instead of just letting the unstable southern government fall right away, and unifying the countries, we were trying to let it down slowly, but ended up dropping it from higher. Like said in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
- i. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
- ii. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of