Vietnam Veterans Memorial

“The Vietnam war was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975” [1].” Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war did not only had extensive effects on the Australian society during the late 1960’s, but in the early 70’s as well. Australia was greatly involved with the Vietnam War from 1962 and all the way until the end of the war in 1975. An effect of this was the amount of casualties that took 520 lives and left 2,396 wounded (and not to mention…

The Vietnam War happened from 1954 until 1975. It was a long, bloody and costly conflict between North Vietnam and its southern allies, Viet Cong, and the South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States to combat communist forces. However, United States didn’t participate in the war from the beginning. Ball considered that United States involvement in the Vietnam War would be unsuccessful, firstly because United States didn’t have the right equipment that could compete with the…

Well, Everybody played a part in the vietnam war. It was a bad war cause a lot of people died in the war and i think that why you gonna shoot and kill people and just be looking all around at dead bodys like i don't understand that but from my oppoining i think they were just trying to prove that that they would win and the other lost and died. At first Americans supported the war at once but as it got worse they turned against the war. I think that the U.S. shouldnt have been involved because…

The war in Laos impacted the Hmong people; many men had left their families to become a soldier. During the war, many families were split up, some families stayed in the villages and other families decided to fled Laos because the country fell into communist forces. The families who decided to flee the village were technically fighting in the war. Many family members such as: wives, children’s, and grandparents had died because of starvation or being left behind. Coming into the United States,…

Omede Professor Epstein History 340-01 Paper 2 The Vietnam War: The battle of The Ia Drang Valley Orobosa Omede Professor Epstein History 340-01 Paper 2 The battle on Ia Drang Valley sets the foundation leading to numerous conflicts of American involvement in the Vietnam War. The engagement between American and North Vietnamese troops were significant in that it persisted even after the American troops withdrew from Vietnam. The stories in We Were Soldiers Once…

a lot of adversity but have to find a way to fight through it. In the first vignette “The Things They Carried”, we learn a lot about the soldiers’ lives and the decisions they have to make. They often feel ashamed of them self for going to war in Vietnam. The men show shame by their actions and emotions.…

Subculture Research: Exploring the life of Hmong Americans In the past three years, I've been learning little by little about the south-east region of Asia overall. I've made close friendships, started enjoying the cuisine, visited China town in Chicago multiple times where a fairly large Hmong community resides and became a fan of anime movies directed by Hayao Miyazaki. A close friend of mine is a Hmong-American and she shares stories and facts about the lifestyle from time to time; a…

War and bloodshed mix together like the love and peace the soldiers wished they had. The effects war has on everyone involved is momentous, not to mention the effects it has on people not involved. But most of all, the soldiers who conduct this conundrum know it all the more better. Fighters on the battlefield not only have to deal with their enemies, but with themselves and their comrades. In “The Things They Carried”, the themes of war, courage, innocence and love are present throughout the…

considered the “foreign other” during the Vietnam War? The act of othering a particular group has long been a signifier or marker of foreign identity or a clash of upheld ideals and standards. From the perspective of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, the “other” is not just the racial military enemy, but also the Americans back at home. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried accounts a series of fictional and real events of American soldiers serving the Vietnam War, thereby reflecting the…

even though nurses who served in Vietnam were not formal combatants they still experienced the same trauma adjusting back to civilian life, long after the war ended. She began the book in the present day, as she still was tormented by night sweats and flashbacks. “Vietnam was the worst time of my life, yet it was also, in many ways, the most important and most intense” (Van Devanter 14). Van Devanter’s memoir is divided into three sections: before Vietnam, during Vietnam and after her service…