North Vietnam

This one event changed the mindset of the war. The Tet Offensive was the start of the down fall of the American forces in the Vietnam war because anti war riots sparked due to the lies from the media, the failure of leadership by the president, and the misrepresentation of the battle. To start off, many anti war riots broke out and rebellions in American held South Vietnam. Many of the American people did not want to enter a war where they were losing, it is common sense. In an article written…

and evil, and he does this by showing the psychological trauma the soldiers had endured, detailing the desensitization of the American soldiers, and the general harshness of the war. One of the ways that Tim O’Brien supports the argument that the Vietnam War was unjust is by depicting the cruelties and trauma that the troops had to endure. An example of a psychologically traumatizing event can be found whenever O’Brien describes a deep fear of his to find himself lost and alone in the unfamiliar…

Ngoc Vo is a sixty-nine year old woman. She was born in 1947 and she was the youngest of the family with three older brothers. They lived in a small village in the central part of Vietnam. When she was seventeen, her father married her off to a twenty one year old man in the village, his name was Binh Ngo. During the Vietnam War, her husband and brothers were all drafted to fight in the South Vietnamese Military. Ngoc was separated from her husband and family during the war and escaped the…

thoroughly,” “transverse,” in combination with element of any origin (Definition taken from http://www.dictionary.com/browse/trans-) Jim, according to the narrator of the short story entitled with the said name, is the saddest North American he has ever met. After the Vietnam War that both the narrator and Jim fought in, Jim dropped fighting, something that he was so accustomed to, to replace it with another: poetry. The man instead of continuing with bloodshed, did some soul-searching that…

interpretation of the events in Vietnam may stray from reality. This is the story of Tim O’Brien’s war and though he feels the need to validate each story, it is his personal interpretations that make his story…

day siege that was sparked when the North Vietnamese Army launched a mortar attack with an ensuing siege that was meant to overwhelm the American forces ten to one. The battle lasted until the 23rd of July 1970 with the evacuation of American forces and an air raid launched by Major General (Ret.) Ben Harrison. Ripcord was built by the historic 101st with two main objectives; the first was to establish offensive force for American troops to withdraw from Vietnam. The second was to ravage…

that are thought of on the subject of war is death. More specifically, death caused by other men. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the thoughts of individual American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War are reflected upon, explicitly on what they did and did not execute during the Vietnam War. One of the main themes O’Brien includes is that, “Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to,” (O’Brien 21). This essay will go into detail about the actions and consequences Tim…

other. If I was born at the same time in his home town of Virginia, we would have had a similar taste for life and nearly a carbon-copy of career choices. We would have both enlisted in the U.S. Marines and have been shipped off to the jungles of Vietnam. This would have been an unusual and petrifying experience for the both of us. We would have trudged through the mud, run patrols out in the rainy jungles and waist high rice fields, been harassed by the local populace, and routinely prayed to…

that had gained the support of the Northern sector of Vietnam, that had not taken kindly to the reforms, and political leadership of Diem, the United States Ambassador, Elbridge Durbrow (c. 1903 – 1997), expressed his concerns about the alarming rate of growth in support that the other side was gaining. The Viet Minh had been angered because of the cancelation of the elections that were called for by the Geneva Accords, and as a result, the North called for the support of their suppressed…

The book "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places" and the documentary Daughter from Da Nang both account the life of being born in Vietnam and the move the United States. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places was written by Le Ly Hayslips and Daughter from Da Nang was directed by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco. Even though their stories are similar and different they both can be compared to each other in a way to show how being away from your birth country can affect you. Both Heidi and Le Ly made…