... on another movie, which would prove to be a good example of leadership practices, called "Braveheart". The first scene that I chose to analyze in "We Were Soldiers" is one that comes some 45 minutes into the movie. The United States Military has just gotten word that the French Army is a disaster over in ... of the speech are, Lt. Col. Moore speaking of himself, "I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together." In this particular scene, the leadership practice that is exemplif...

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... . In Vietnam the target of containment was Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh front he had created in 1941. Ho and his chief lieutenants were communists with long-standing connections to the Soviet Union. They were also ardent Vietnamese nationalists who fought first to rid their country of the Japanese and then, after 1945, to prevent France from reestablishing its former colonial ... mastery over Vietnam and the rest of Indochina. Harry S. Truman and other American leaders, having no sympathy for French colonialism ... believed that the credibility of U.S. anticommunist commitments around th...

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... mustard gas and satellite imagery of Iranian and Kurdish troop formation while behind the scenes the Reagan Administration sold stolen Pentagon weapons to Iran via Israel at an inflated price. The money, $30 million dollars, from the weapons was then used to fund the death squads in Nicaragua as a way to "roll back" Soviet communism. Though at the time there were no immediate ... repercussions to the United States, as did many events of the Cold War, the Iran-Contra Scandal became interlinked with other global uprisings, revolutions and proxy wars (Good Muslim, Bad Muslim chapter ... 3)...

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... during the war. They could no longer maintain their colonies that they had before "the Great War" happened which cost them many. The United Nations declared that the once ruled European countries had the right to self-rule. Indochina is made up of many countries but Cambodia and Laos are different then most of them. Cambodia and Laos are the same in ... many ways. Cambodia and Laos' quest for independence has come from internal conflict within each country and with the influence of Communism from Vietnam as well as the anti-communist influence from the United ... state. The United Stat...

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Would you like it if you were forced to think and act in a certain way? Leaders in countries such as Germany during WWII, used manipulation and brute force to control and lead the citizen's to follow them - no matter what. The United States and other countries didn't feel that they could just stand around and let things like this happen, so they worked with other nations to put ... to ensure the Soviet Union's security. In contrast, the United States goals were for nations to get along in peace, based on the principles of equal rights and allowing the people to determine their own government....

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... . Not suited for the jungle, it was made totally of leather. In a wet environment, leather provided no ventilation . This promoted fungus or "foot rot" and other bacteria native to Vietnam. Constantly having wet feet also took its toll on the morale of the soldiers. Dry socks were hard to come by in the early years of the war. Vietnam was know as the ... use. The M-16 is of 5.56 caliber. This had many positive effects, with smaller ammunition, riflemen were able to carry more rounds. The load capacity increased to 40 doubleing the ammount of rounds held in each clip. The new projectile w...

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... known Phat Diem well before the attack: it had been the most living town in all the country, and then it was the most dead. Rubble and broken glass, the smell of burnt paint and plaster, long empty street and houses in ruins - that was all left from the town. And then goes the canal full of bodies, which reminded an Irish stew containing too much meat ... , and one head sticking up out of the water like a buoy. But what struck Fowler most was the sight of a dead woman and a small boy lying in a narrow ... sudden choice of a prey because they just happened to be passing, there was no one...

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... for as long as the earth has been turning. It makes no difference whether it is Romans journeying the Thames, or Marlow on the Congo, or Willard on the Nung. The metaphorical darkness is always there at the epicenter of the journey, and it will be forever. Coppola takes notice of this, and makes this one of the more prominent themes in the movie ... the movie keeps plunging toward some crazy paroxysm, until, abruptly, the "heroes" shoot down an unarmed family in a sampan-shoot them down brutally, relentlessly, as if it were the final answer in a cold equation. And you know that insanity...

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... objects they carried had a weight from the emotional toll. The love of having someone always there for them contradicted the loneliness and seclusion from the rest of the world inside the infinite amounts of trees and the understanding and compassion received from the members in Alpha Company. Cross and Martha were both a prime example of the difficulty of sustaining love in the Vietnam War. Martha's love ... . "Briefly, in the rain, Lieutenant Cross saw Martha's gray eyes gazing back at him," he accepted and understood the realization that Martha would never love him the way he thought ...

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... , so for those of us that have never faced that adversity can really grasp the mental conflict these men were forced to handle. In the story it talks about things that they no longer needed, they just dropped on the trail and walked away. And all the characters struggled with the fact that they could not just drop the mental baggage they carry, as ... men's minds in a time of great sorrow, but can show the weakness of mourning. This must be such a difficult thing, as I'm sure these men have developed a brotherhood, and losing a brother has to be devastating. There are, however, some visi...

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... racial comments, the fights, and more fights, and then and learning more about myself and my heritage, helped me to be proud to say that I wasam Korean. Some can say Korean American, but to me I consider myself Korean because that is what I am, and what I was born to be. I am a Korean living in America, but I can also say that I am a Korean in China, no matter where I am ... me to let the ignorant people know that we were not passive and to help them watch what they say to the next Asian person. Being in college I thought that type of ignorance would die out, but there have been many in...

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... ." According to Ly, the war is over, the country is at peace. We are no longer at people against people war, or a political difference, no longer Democracy versus Communism; but every war leaves it lasting scar, and the scar left from the Vietnam War is a poisonous substance that has long been instilled into ... deformed son, as they live in a one bedroom shack, with a leaky roof and no running water within the city of Danang where some of the US military personnel were station. She was expose to Agent Orange during the war and believes it to be the reason for her son who was born with ...

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... (Reno , 2012). "In other words, 44 percent of post-9/11 veterans diagnosed with PTSD are still not getting their benefits" (Reno, 2012). Soldiers did not wait when they were called upon to defend this country regardless of which war they fought in, therefore their diagnosis or compensation should not be delayed. Recently, I read an article about a Soldier who joined ... from committing suicide. The thoughts of suicide can be minimized with the proper treatment. Soldiers, who are struggling with the deadly disorder of PTSD, if not treated feel alone and isolated. They feel there's no way...

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... man's skull is a different size than a savage's skull. When Marlow asks the doctor what the results of this test have been in the past, the doctor comments that there were none because there has been no civilized person that has returned from Congo. An example that was in the movie is when Willard faces his own personality of whether or not to complete his ... completed his mission. If he didn't complete, then the Vietnam jungle would have conquered him. One significant similarity of the main characters in each piece is that every character has sympathy for Kurtz and when he dies. Marlo...

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... lyrics. Whatever the intentions of the artist, music acted more as a social divisor then anything else during the 1960s. Due to the consensus era's fear of communism, people like Joseph McCarthy were able to gain control in the Fifties. McCarthy gained control during the Cold War, accusing anyone and everyone of being a communist menace. The government reacted by trying to counter McCarthy with ... dress was an issue. From the Fifties to the Sixties, the crew-cut haircuts became long, moppy hair, and the slacks became ripped jeans. Girls were no longer confined to wool skirts; they port...

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... Vietnamese, ain't we?" This short piece sheds light on the fact that even the American soldiers were unaware of our purpose in Vietnam. The soldiers who went there were lost and out of place. There is a scene that depicts American soldiers wandering around in the village with no money and the song "500 miles away from home" plays in the background. Vietnamese vendors are ... , a young boy asked: "What did you feel about the people who went and burned their draft cards and went to Canada?" He answered, "We don't agree with them. I think these people were legally wrong I think sometimes th...

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... had the virtue of working towards "political stabilization" with the Russians; it was deeply committed to avoiding nuclear war - although Kennedy showed no interested in general disarmament. Meanwhile Black Americans took President Kennedy at his word and pressed for civil rights against racial discrimination. On 20 May, 1963 , "400 federal marshals (government policemen) had to be sent to ... seventies arriving soon after it and there was a general "been there, done that"(interview) mentality which created the seventies, a decade of disco, and doom, never quite living up to the intens...

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... . McCartney was given credit in the writing of this song because Lennon and McCartney were the best of friends. Even after the break up of the Beatles in 1970 and the death of John Lennon in 1980, both still placed each others names on music. There is a fine line, however, between protesting and lamenting. The lament often forms a subcategory of the protest song. The word ... ?" Lyrics are not just a bunch of words scrawled on a page and then set to music. They were not all protests or laments either. Some of them were genuine love songs, "Leader of the Pack" by the Shangri-Las. Others we...

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... defeat on. One of these includes the fact that the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong armies were much stronger than we had originally thought. The guerilla warfare tactics were something that the American troops had never seen before and were not use to them. It was very confusing to the American soldiers because there were no clear combat zones. This made the fighting more difficult. The Vietcong ... guerillas would dress up like the Vietnamese peasants to trick the American troops into believing that they weren't the enemy but then would attack them. So trying to ... determine who the...

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... , known as Hmongs, to fight off any of the Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao communists that were in Laos. The Hmong had no desire to be involved in international or civil affairs but they loved freedom and knew that with Communism there would be no freedom. They were threatened by the North Vietnamese invasions into Laos, so then the U.S. encouraged the Hmongs to fight, the US provided assistance ... with training and weapons. With the assistance of the CIA, General Vang Pao led a secret army of 9,000 Hmong men in 1961 ... . Laos was a neutral country when the Vietnam War broke out, and the...

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... the fighting. The U.S. Marines first arrived in Danang in 1965. Danang is Located in South Vietnam, close to the Northern Vietnamese territory. This is the only war in which there was no true front line. The fighting happened where it happened. This was due to the thick jungle foliage. It covers most of Vietnam, this made the fighting very difficult. The soldiers ... time ran into enemy patrols not meaning to, it just happened, then the fighting would break out. This went on thru the entire war. The Vietnamese would also take out many U.S. Marines by using sappers, or suicide bombers on...

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... had a difficult time making his final decision (40). He simply "couldn't make up [his] mind. [He] feared the war, yes, but [he] also feared exile,"(44). Moreover, there "was the raw fact of terror," and Tim "did not want to die,"(44). Although these reasons should have pointed Tim toward the right decision for himself- avoiding the war, he fails to recognize ... received the draft notice, Tim knew in his heart that he should have left for Canada to protest the war. However, his fears were holding him back. It was if his "conscience told [him] to run, but some irrational and powerful for...

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... a successful man. I was lacking something; I wanted more in my life then waking up day by day with no goal. So I decided to enlist in the United States Army. There I had structure, something that the Army taught me was a set of values. "Hurry up and wait" was a saying that I had learned as a soldier. In ... the age of twenty. I was moving forward rapidly through life which in certain cultures was not common but in the military it was normal. Another year passes and here comes the birth of my first child. I was now a father of a beautiful daughter, Alexis. So within the first two years I h...

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... a successful man. I was lacking something; I wanted more in my life then waking up day by day with no goal. So I decided to enlist in the United States Army. There I had structure, something that the Army taught me was a set of values. "Hurry up and wait" was a saying that I had learned as a soldier. In ... the age of twenty. I was moving forward rapidly through life which in certain cultures was not common but in the military it was normal. Another year passes and here comes the birth of my first child. I was now a father of a beautiful daughter, Alexis. So within the first two years I h...

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... who had left sided views. Truman launched a loyalty program that had the FBI check all government officials to make sure they had no ties to the communist party or anything else that seemed suspicious (D1). His main reason for doing this was to keep communism out ... protested their killings. Many people were happy that they were being killed and wanted all communists to have the same fate. This one event shows how the nation was split on deciding the fate of convicted communists (D4). Even though people were already frightened enough with the communism aspect of life, there was a threat...

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