The Vietnam Veterans

He tries to hold back the tears as he visits the Veterans Memorial and recognizes a name that brings back memories of the event that killed Andrew Johnson. Although Komunyakka is trained to be “stone” he is still human and while Komunyakka is feeling emotions inside he is having a hard time trying to figure…

Introduction A veteran comes back from the war in Vietnam. Some people thank him for his services and some people dishonor him for what he did in the war. Veterans go through so much during the war and has to go to a center to help them with their PTSD. Many people treat veterans with disrespect because of what they did during their time in combat. Returning veterans or people get treated with either honor, mental help, or with disrespect but mostly disrespect and mental help. Odysseus has a…

embodied in symbolism that is used throughout the text to portray Norman’s constant struggle to reconnect with society after serving in the Vietnam War. Norman’s story of isolation demonstrates a universal struggle of war veterans in their quest to reintegrate with the society they fought so hard to protect; this is an especially important message for author and veteran O’Brien to express, as the text was published when PTSD was first professionally recognised as a mental illness. As such, the…

Agent Orange: The Perpetual Consequences Generations of Vietnamese civilians exposed to a perilous chemical: all due to the spraying of an herbicide over Vietnam’s jungles. The Vietnam War was between the Communist North Vietnam and the United States. The conflict became global when Communist-supportive countries began sending reinforcements to the Vietnamese and the United States gained support from its allies. The Viet Cong soldiers knew their jungles by heart and used the plant cover to…

The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial wars America has ever been involved in. Our nation was divided into two bodies who argued the sanity of the other. Televisions and radios covered every inch of the war, from our soldiers to their families at home. Overseas our troops fought alongside Democratic South Vietnam to not only protect Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh and the growing communist threat, but to also put an end to the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia, as or postulated…

We tell stories to remember the past and to not repeat our mistakes in the future. The Vietnam war was a very important part of our history. Also we tell stories based on events that happened in our own lives. Oliver Stone the writer of Platoon experienced the Vietnam war first hand. Similar to Tim O’Brien who wrote the things they carried. He also experienced the war. Both writers wrote about their experiences from their own point of view. The way Tim O’Brien wrote the things they carried…

The Vietnam War, (1954-1975), was a lingering conflict that immersed between the North Vietnam communist government and its allies in South Vietnam (Viet Cong) and its principal ally, the United States. Some refer to this as the “American War” in Vietnam or the “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation” (Encyclopedia Britannica). The war was also a part of a much larger conflict as well, but that is not the research for this paper. On the home front, the opinions of the war and the U.S.…

One of the longest and bloodiest conflicts in American history, was the Vietnam War. Fighting in Vietnam continued for decades before the Americans eventually interfered. Between the neighboring Chinese and the colonial French, the Vietnamese have continuously fought off foreigners with tenacity and fearlessness. Over 3 million people died and Vietnam become a communist nation, despite American intervention(Vietnam War, History). Due to these disastrous results, it would be expected that most…

Platoon is a 1986 film written and directed by Oliver Stone, in an attempt to use the war as a medium to express anti-war message. It is a new and effective approach by Oliver Stone, furthermore based on his personal life experiences as infantryman in Vietnam war. The difference between PLATOON and other “conventional” war movies is the point of view and emphasis placed on the main subject of the storyline, the war. In Platoon, Oliver Stone explicitly portrait the horrors of the war and how…

New York Times Bestseller The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien retells his and other soldier’s stories of fighting in the Vietnam War. O’Brien struggles with the feelings of responsibility, guilt, and anger along the way. Tim O’Brien wants readers to understand the truths of war by illustrating the effects through personal and interpersonal experiences of soldiers and war veterans . O’Brien discusses the paradoxes of war in How To Tell a True War Story. “The truths are contradictory. It can be…