The Vietnam Veterans

and frail, and the family risked starvation and poverty. What happened? The answer was simple, Agent Orange. During the Vietnam War, new chemicals called defoliants were being used as a tactic for military purposes. One of the most common defoliants used was called Agent Orange. These defoliants were used as harmful chemical herbicides to denature the trees and the land of Vietnam and Laos from 1961 to 1972. Agent Orange had a large impact environmentally and medically creating a burden that…

Confronting Sorrow The Vietnam War created a lasting memory for all the people who valiantly fought for both sides. The loss of human life has cost many war veterans their sanity after the war. The Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington D.C. was created in 1982, and stands as a testament, honoring the many who served and lost their lives. This memorial has the tendency to evoke many powerful emotions that can be extremely hard to suppress, which happens to be the case for Yusef Komunyakaa, an…

The Vietnam War lasted many years and saw a great impact on the world, to those that fought in it and those that lived through it, however, many question whether or not America’s involvement was necessary. The United States of America’s decision to become involved in the First Indochina War between the French and the Vietnamese was a mistake. Their involvement in the war was a mistake because the US risked a lot in a war that had nothing to do with them and Vietnam veterans were mistreated by…

even though nurses who served in Vietnam were not formal combatants they still experienced the same trauma adjusting back to civilian life, long after the war ended. She began the book in the present day, as she still was tormented by night sweats and flashbacks. “Vietnam was the worst time of my life, yet it was also, in many ways, the most important and most intense” (Van Devanter 14). Van Devanter’s memoir is divided into three sections: before Vietnam, during Vietnam and after her service…

During the Vietnam War, the opposing oppositions sides, the north and south, gathered allies to aid them in their conquest. The South of Vietnam associated with Australia, South Korea and United States. Whilst the north sided with the Soviet Union and China. There were many other communist that supported the north and non-communist allies that supported the south wasn’t as big of a part. The war started in 1954 and lasted a brutal 19 years commencing in late April 1975, but Australia didn’t…

permanent resting places. (https://memorials.com/blog/why-memorials-are-important) The Vietnam Veterans Wall Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial…

returning Veterans of war to experience symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Spending years overseas fighting in a war can cause the person to have trouble when they return to their homes. In order to help with the PTSD that veterans face after coming back from war, reintegration programs are needed. With programs to help combat PTSD in the returning Veterans it will be easier to protect the heroes that risked their lives to fight for us. It is important to help Veterans…

The book “The Things They carried” by Tim O’Brien was about the Vietnam war. One of the things that is in the book is that there is more than what is just on the surface of the war. It puts a personal spin on the dry material that is usually read about wars. Tim O’Brien was in the Vietnam war when he was a young man, and he uses these experiences to write both fictional stories and nonfictional stories about this war. When a person is about to start reading this book they must go into it…

before war puts an end to mankind” (John F. Kennedy). The Vietnam War was a violent war that had a strong impact on everyone involved. Not only the United States government, but also the people realized it was not always their place to intervene in foreign affairs. But this realization was far too late as the troops had already been sent and the American citizens were forced to live through the hell that is war. The effects of the Vietnam War questioned the ethics of warfare and changed the…

Vietnam War “One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam war was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the view public”- Walter Dean Myers. With the many deaths of brave soldiers and innocent citizens, the people’s high view on the government’s opinion for the public decreased drastically. There was a feeling of insecurity and malicious emotions towards the military and the government. The Vietnam war has impacted…