Viet Cong

fled his war-torn country in search for a place of safety and opportunity. In order to learn more about my own culture and how exactly I came to be an Asian-American, I have chosen my father to be my interviewee. It all started in 1975, when the Viet Cong won the Vietnam War. With my father’s family supporting the South, despite the North’s victory, he was forced into a rough life. His family was split; the men in the family was sent to (what they sugarcoated) “re-education camps”, while the…

In the opening scene of the episode, “The Crash,” Ken Cosgrove is shown in a car with Chevy executives. They are loudly encouraging him to speed. One pulls out a gun and then the other covers Ken’s eyes, leading to them getting into an accident. This is the first we are seeing of Chevy’s treatment of Ken. Clearly, they are reckless both with their own safety but particularly with Ken’s. It almost seems like they are trying to get him killed. In light of this theory, Ken Cosgrove could easily be…

photos that the media used to make American people question the War was a photo taken by Eddie Adams. This photo was taken on the streets of Cholon, the incident took place on merely the second day of the Tet Offensive. Adam’s picture shows a Viet Cong war prisoner in a checkered shirt, whom was dragged from a building onto the street, with a soldier placing a pistol to the prisoner’s head. This was commonly used as a method of interrogation, however what happened next, a mere split second…

In The Things they Carried, By Tim O 'Brien, there are three characters that are greatly changed by the Vietnam War those characters being Rat Kiley the medic, Mary Anne an all American girl and well-educated liberal minded Tim O’Brien. Each character comes to Vietnam in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War with a level of goodness in their hearts that is instilled in all Americans who have never seen war. After going to war it changes a these people by taking away a piece of that goodness…

Just like the Americans who thought the war would be fairly easy and would be over quickly, Mary Ann believes she can’t be touched. She treats the war as a holiday, swimming in a river that is likely to be surrounded by snipers, and treating a Viet Cong stronghold like a touristic town. She is empowered by war, and in the end, her transformation makes her hungrier for adventure than her boyfriend is. She is enchanted by Vietnam, and loves the way it makes her feel, as if she if complete, and can…

Where they were marching was heavily wooded and surrounded by the Viet Cong. The people the American soldiers were trying to save were attacking them. This made things confusing for the soldiers and added more weight to the already heavy load they had to carry. Since they had more to carry it made it even harder to deal…

Yusef Komunyakaa is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished poets at truly capturing the emotions and experiences of war. His ability to write not only from the perspective of his own experiences, but to embody the viewpoint of others, gives a voice to those who saw a story in a different light. Komunyakaa himself served as a journalist in the Vietnam War and several years later, he began to write poetry remembering his experiences (Salas 34). His most famous anthology, Neon…

The statement that The Vietnam War was unwinnable is true to some extent. The Vietnam War was a 20 year long war which lasted from 1955 to 1975. There were multiple factors that attributed to the conflict being unwinnable, these include the nature of the Vietcong fighters, the strong protest movement and the role of the media in shaping public opinion. A factor that made the Vietnam War unwinnable was the nature of the Vietcong fighters. The American and Australian forces found it difficult to…

The Things They Carried is a non fiction war novel written by Tim O’Brien published in 1990. In this book, Tim O’Brien shares stories about soldiers in the Vietnam War. The soldiers tell about the things they carry with them during the war and why they carried them. They tell each other stories that are both entertaining and emotional. This brings the soldiers closer together making it very traumatic when some of them are killed. Tim O’Brien tells about the horrible things that happen during the…

The Vietnam War was a war that introduced a new level of warfare. The Vietnam War a war fought with heavy firepower caused the lives of many brave American soldiers. In the story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’ Brien emphasizes on the heavy burden American soldiers carried during the Vietnam War. As the war rose with misery, American soldiers began to rebel against it. Lastly, the theme of the story is to pay a tribute for the brave 2.5 million American soldiers who gave their lives during…