South Vietnam

explains what each soldier carries, and the objects significance. The author conveys his messages throughout the story by using symbolistic objects such as the baggage the soldiers carry and the New Testament to portray the physiological effects of the Vietnam war. The soldiers carry many physical things on their backs, such as: knives, pictures, helmets, bibles, bandages, guns. There is no lack of tangible objects that the soldiers hold throughout the story; however, the intangible objects…

From an ethical and moral standpoint, the war in Vietnam was forceful and unworthy of American citizen involvement. If one deems a cause worth fighting for they have the right to fight, and if one deems a cause or a tactic of war unconventional, they have the right to fight against it. This young defendant and his ill knowledge about the subject followed others, burning their draft cards as a sign of nonconformity, not as a threat. He shall be seen as not guilty by the basic unalienable rights,…

“Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsening. Living through that time, we didn’t see that. We believed in our capacity to grow a great country. A just society.” Society today is just not what everyone thought it would be. While some people believe that main causes of the civil war was started by the greed of the united fruit company, they did not follow any of the laws of the declaration of independence. Where the war was between the…

worked on documents that showed the U.S’s actions during Vietnam the document had very secret and important information, he was an early supporter of the U.S.’s role in indochina but by the time he finished working he was against the U.S.’s involvement. He felt like he had to expose the U.S.’s actions so he leaked the papers. In 1971 he copied more than seven thousand pages of documents that revealed the government's actions during the Vietnam war. The documents exposed the government, the…

In the United States both the media and public opinion are entrenched in the overarching direction of American foreign policy. These two entities have a symbiotic relationship. The media shapes public opinion and vice versa. Either one can sway the other in the opposite direction. Historically, the media is either the primary cheerleader or main critic of foreign policy, or it has been both at different points in time depending on public opinion or outcome of the policy. A prime example…

Tim O'Brien, in his collection of stories "The Things They Carried" (1990), recounts his experiences of not only the events that took place around him, but the individuals involved in the war alongside him. O'Brien identifies physical items with emotional meanings that each of the men kept with them, especially letters and themselves. To emphasize the items, O'Brien inserts potentially pathos-driven reasons why they carry what they do. O'Brien suddenly begins his novel with the introduction of…

tray that the bacon was on had caught fire. My grandma had put the bacon back in the fridge though, and had found out later when she looked in the fridge that half of the fridge had melted. Opps! My grandpa was in the Vietnam War. Although he didn’t fight in it though. The Vietnam War started in 1954 and ended on April 30, 1975. The war costed over billions of dollars and many people lost their lives.…

The United States became involved in the Vietnam War (1955-1975), one of the most devastating conflicts during the Cold War, in order to prevent Vietnam from succumbing to communism. As the war drew to an end, the majority of Americans began to view the war as a “mistake.” Although the government spent “more than a billion dollars a month” on the war effort, “no end to the war seemed in sight” (Lunch, Sperlich 22, 30). Many prominent Vietnam War films were released shortly after the war came to…

compilation of many war stories about the soldiers in the Vietnam War. Tim O’Brien writes about his own personal experiences while in Vietnam and includes stories told by his comrades from the war. O’Brien served was overall against the Vietnam War, but once he received his draft notice he was assigned to the Third Platoon as an infantry foot soldier (Estrada, 2013). In his novel, he includes a Native American man named Kiowa, who lost his life in Vietnam. If Tim O’Brien had reacted to the…

American soldier of Vietnam was a victim of circumstances largely out of his control. Being a soldier in any war is nothing compared to video games. You face the death of your friends and are constantly struggling to stay alive and sane. Another part of being a soldier is following the orders your superior commands you to do. There is never time to argue or change the orders you are given, and if you fail to complete those orders you will face consequences. While in Vietnam, the soldiers faced…