Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The Mujahideen were a fierce guerrilla army that was created by tribes in Afghanistan to defend against the Soviet Invasion force and the Soviet backed DRA army. The entire force was composed of unpaid volunteers and less than 15% of the Mujahideen commanders had previous military experience, but the impact of those who were trained played a major role in providing military planning, issues, logistics, continuity, and gave the men minimal but vital training. The Mujahideen volunteers were…

In the novel, The Things They Carried written by author, Tim O’Brien the Vietnam war has a profound effect on the young soldiers who are forced into fighting in it. The war effects each of these characters in different ways and changes their lives and how they see the world forever. Some of these characters survive the war itself but the long lasting effects on them mentally and emotionally, are too much to bear after coming home to a community that they no longer feel they belong in. It…

The majority of critics view The Things they Carried as one of the most honest depictions of the Vietnam War that has ever been written. Very few authors combine writing a vivid description of war with the pure emotion that the soldiers felt during the war as appropriately as O’Brien does. However, despite the clear depiction of war, this novel raises the question, “What is true?”. Through analyzing this novel, it is clear the author believes that the happening-truth of a story is far less…

friends. As a Vietnamese, I choose my country for my journey, which is one of the best tourist attractions in the world. There are many reasons why I choose Vietnam to travel but the most common are delicious foods, beautiful landscape, and special culture. Firstly, the most special that attracts foreign visitors to enjoy and remember it. Vietnam has many special dishes with secret recipes. Food was the pride, and the cultures of my country. Vietnamese cuisine mixes meats, vegetables, noodles,…

Little Saigon in Garden Grove has the highest population of Vietnamese living in the United States. In fact, it is the highest number of Vietnamese living outside of Vietnam. How did they retain their language and cultural practices virtually unchanged after they immigrated to the United States? The preserve their culture and traditions and continue to teach it to the following generations that follows. Although, some of the children are born here they are still fluent on their Vietnamese…

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…

high school, I had a chance to know an immigrant to the US. She was born in Vietnam, which is the same country I was born. She came to the US with her family when she was 18 years old. I asked her the reasons why her family decided to immigrate to the US, and she told me both the push and pull factors that bought her family and she to the US. The push and pull factors were environment and economics reasons. In Vietnam, air pollution was a big problem, that affected human health, environment,…

I think the Vietnam War was dumb. I just think war in general is dumb, but I couldn’t tell you how to stop it. Just the acts of malicious aggression committed during war which seem to be pardoned much more than they would be if it was a citizen committing it makes me angry. Maybe it’s because I’m a person with morals and compassion, but I don’t see how someone could just kill without being almost brainwashed. And like I said in our solution project for how to not send troops to Vietnam, I don’t…

The Vietnam War is often seen as one of the most problematic wars in American history coupled with one of the largest exoduses of refugees. Beginning in late 1955, the Vietnam War was not just against communism but also a war to suppress nationalist self-determination. The United States took part in the war by aiding the dictatorial regime in South Vietnam in the name of protecting democracy. However, the South Vietnamese government…

are introduced to two main symbols such as The red convertible car and the red river which impacts the two brothers journey. The Journey in which the both brothers part take in, brings us through their quest or also known as their happy times, the Vietnam war years, and finally the post war period. During the two brothers quest: happy times, they were at their best moment as one. Lyman from a young age loved the idea of working and making not only his own money,…