... literature degree at the National University in Hanoi, also part of the "Young People Volunteer Organization." 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 ... and civilians bloodstream. Even today, three generations have passed since the Vietnam War, Agent Orange is still causing its pernicious effect within the war ravaged country. Agent Orange is known to be the cause of millions of birth defects, and diseases that lead t painful death. I...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Communication between the North and the South was worsening due to the Vietcong. Roads between the two and other communication lines including the railroad running along the coast were cut in innumerable places by the Vietcong. More and more the normal social and economic lives were interfered with and ... of schedule, on 30 January. " (Palmer, pg. 76) This had showed them that there was a pattern of attacks possibly across the entire country aimed specifically at large urban areas, province and district capitals. Even with these warnings and tale-tale signs, many South Vietnamese milita...

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... troops on the battlefield of South Vietnam with huge amounts of war expenses, Washington D.C. incessantly acclaimed for a liberal democracy in this small Asian country. However, that illusion was quickly shattered by hard facts: slaughters, piled-up bodies, villages being destroyed, farms being burned by bombs. US ... cut off supply routes from North to South Vietnam through Cambodia. The announcement on April 30, 1970, of President Richard Nixon that US troops would cross the Vietnam border into Cambodia was the straw that broke the camel's back, ignited a wave of protest by students. 1...

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• Grade Level: High School