Viet Cong

In every portrayal of a war that depicts combat, soldiers usually form an intensely powerful bond in incredibly brief periods of time. Men who may not have never met under normal circumstances, form a brotherhood, tempered by the harsh realities of combat. The men in “Everything We Had” are no exception. “It wouldn’t have mattered if you came to my platoon tomorrow, if we got it, I would go out and try and save your ass” (115) While out on patrol, these men that were once strangers had to rely…

Many events ranging from wars to elections have influenced American history as the American public knows today. Even though these events have been set in stone and are in-erasable from America’s past, they can be interpreted in a vast multitude of ways. There are also always two sides of a story, and one cannot fully develop an opinion on a specific topic without having knowledge that pertains to each side. With this in mind, it is only logical to apply a comparison between Howard Zinn’s A…

The Asian American Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War are both major events in American history. The time that these two events occurred overlap each other some 20 years, some scholars even argued that the Vietnam War triggered the Asian American Movement. This research paper is dedicated to the further exploration of the links between the Vietnam War and the Asian American Movement. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Vietnam War and the Asian American Civil Rights Movement had great…

(O'Brien 83). She is that pretty, fresh-faced girl next door who turns into a demon, like in a horror movie. She wants to know about everything that has to do with war. She treats the profound fundamentals of conflict as a holiday, blithely treating a Viet Cong stronghold like a tourist town and swimming in a river that's possibly surrounded by…

Today, one of the biggest communist nations is China. They face many issues due to the communist government in their country. Before WW2, the United States was trying to influence and help China and make them a capitalist nation, but after the war, China became allies with Russia and was completely hostile to American ways and interests (Navarro 22). Something interesting is that the Chinese communist party was formed in 1921 by young Chinese intellectuals, not unlike the United States and how…

Cambodian refugees and Vietnamese refugees also share differing experiences when it pertains to the topic of hardships faced when fleeing one’s homeland. Although both groups faced complications when fleeing their homeland, the complications and obstacles they faced were distinct. As for the Cambodian refugees, an abundant amount died during the journey to freedom. According to Kuy, “An estimated 3 million died during the Killing Fields, from torture, execution, starvation and disease. Some…

In Da 5 Bloods, when the bloods are in the restaurant, a group of older Vietnamese men nod politely and offer them drinks. As Vinh informs the bloods, the men “are former Viet Cong and wanna welcome you all back to their country” (Lee). The bloods returned the gesture, raising their glasses to the men. This show of mutual respect is a clear depiction of the lack of animosity between the American and Vietnamese sides. In Things…

The men higher up within the underestimated the Viet Con due to a mixture of racism, classism and perceived intellectual inferiority. Helicopter was considered far superior to tools available to the Viet Cong The young men had romanticised notions of war either from the stories of their American father’s ending WWII or from the movies, their naivety made them complacent. Romanticisations…

Vietnam and the Watergate scandal affected popular trust in the government. During his 1968 campaign, Nixon promised that he had a “secret plan” to put an end the Vietnam War. Once he was in office, he created a new policy called Vietnamization. With this, U.S. troops would slowly be withdrawn while South Vietnamese troops, backed by U.S. bombing, would take up fighting. However, Vietnamization did not end the war or end the antiwar movement like Nixon had planned. In early 1970, Nixon ordered…

The Vietnam war was a war in which technology played a major role in combat, and survival.This is why the weapons utilized in part of the Vietnam War were more wrecking than those of any past war. This included aerial bombings from jets dropping tons of explosives, and using highly toxic chemicals on farms in Vietnam destroying thousands of acres. As bad as the aerial bombings and explosives sound those were not the only destructive uses of technology. Tanks, and main weapons used in war such as…