The Vietnam Veterans

The Vietnam War was one of the longest and the most intense war in the U.S. history. It was fought in such way that it could never have been brought to a significant conclusion. The war has heavy impacts on people, especially on soldiers. It is psychologically appalling for veterans because it contains harsh violence, including death through struggle seeing the enemy before and after killing them, and observing their relatives die. Traumatic experiences that soldiers witnessed during the war…

stories that take place in Vietnam during the Vietnam war. These stories depict the horrors and atrocities that take place during war. General history shows that the US spent lots of time and money. The US involvement in Vietnam divided Americans into the hawks and the doves. The hawks were people who supported the war while the doves were people who opposed the war. The conflict between the hawks and doves raised the question, “Was the US justified in going to war in Vietnam?”. This question…

The Vietnam War The Vietnam War commonly known as the Second Indochina War began as a conflict in 1959 and ended with a communist victory in April 1975. The war was a long and costly armed battle which was fought by the North Vietnam and South Vietnam as result of the Cold War and the desire to have a national government that was truly independent. The North Vietnamese Army had benefited from military and financial support from China and the Soviet Union who were members of the Communist block…

Vietnam and Afghanistan In 1967, Martin Luther King gave a speech called “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence” at Riverside Church in New York City. King’s purpose was to vocalize the corruption of the Vietnam War and its negative impact on the creation of social justice in the United States. He examined the United States of America’s effort in the war and reasons and repercussions of being there. King denounced the war as something that would poison America’s soul and would lead to the…

war mates. Whether or not they were true, completely false, or only showed a little bit of the truth, the stories still go to show us how such an event can alter a person’s state of mind. O’Brien’s stories were a few good examples of what a veteran of the Vietnam War went through, and readers were able to read about them from a man who witnessed everything firsthand. During any war the soldiers have no choice but to witness a lot of death. There are different reactions from the guys. Some show…

college. Journeys both embark a change typically physically and mentally to an individual. The former Vietnam veteran Jimmy Cross in The Things They Carried and the Doctor in The Use of Force both portrayed a weak sense of responsibility in the short term, but their intentions and growth in the long run were for the greater good. Jimmy Cross was just a early twenties solider that was drafted into the Vietnam war to fight for his country. He still thinks of his love Martha who lives at Mount…

thinking that there is no real understanding of Vietnam Syndrome to learning more about it directly from his father. Terry eventually learns what went down on the battlefields of Vietnam and accepts that you can never unsee what happened there. This change reveals the story’s theme that in order to become a better person you must understand what others have gone through. In the beginning of the story, Terry believes there is a way that you can treat Vietnam PTSD, but when his dad starts freaking…

no one behind on the battlefield. But many veterans are beginning to believe their country has left them behind at home. We all say we are thankful for are veterans but how do we show it? A national problem that faces Americans today is the treatment of our veterans. It’s been debated on and on, is are veterans treated like heroes? Everyday in 2017 an average of 20 veterans committed suicide. In the last 15 years more…

federal government might have argued that the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War and dumping more than 11 million gallons of Agent Orange on the South Vietnam, often showering on farmers, their families, and on whole forests that turned into barren wasteland (Korn), was altogether for the greater good in the fight against communism. But the United States’ actions do not justify their claims…

After the Vietnam War, 15% of the war’s veterans were never able to successfully transition back into their old lives (“21 Remarkable”). Louise Erdich’s short story, “The Red Convertible,” features a character who develops post-traumatic stress disorder from the war. Erdich explores the depersonalization associated with PTSD through both the symbolism of the red convertible itself and the drastic change seen in Henry Lamartine’s characterization. Henry Lamartine is drafted into the Vietnam War…