... are able to live rather peacefully, compared to some of their fellow GIs. However, no veteran can forget everything that happened to him during the war, no matter how hard the individual might want to forget. It is impossible for the Vietnam War veteran to say that the war had no effect on his life. All veterans went through completely different situations, and no soldier had all of ... blind to see and accept it when it is not others fault. The people of this nation are the people who are truly at fault, and it is its own worst enemy, for the Veterans of the Vietnam War did little wron...

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... If I Die in a Combat Zone, a unique, young man examined the Vietnam War. Feelings toward the war at that time were mixed and questioned by many people in the U.S. There were many opinions ranging from positive to negative. Tim's beliefs somewhat remained the same since he already had negative concepts about the war. His thoughts after he was drafted lead the reader to believe that he was obligated and pressured to ... fight in the Vietnam War. During basic training, he still felt skeptical about the reasons for fighting in the war. There were too many questions up in the air and too few...

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... drinking (64-65). At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the atmosphere was like Kipling's colonial wars. The battalion's name of Expeditionary Brigade was even romantic. The battalion was the only American unit in Vietnam at the time as they expressed, "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers." Lieutenant Bradley called Vietnam the "splendid little war." For the Vietnamese it was not that splendid. The Australians had a firefight with the Viet Cong. One of ... a letter of condolence to his widow. Lieutenant Parsons was killed two nights later by American 4.2 mortar shells (Caputo 193-1...

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... drinking (64-65). At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the atmosphere was like Kipling's colonial wars. The battalion's name of Expeditionary Brigade was even romantic. The battalion was the only American unit in Vietnam at the time as they expressed, "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers." Lieutenant Bradley called Vietnam the "splendid little war." For the Vietnamese it was not that splendid. The Australians had a firefight with the Viet Cong. One of ... a letter of condolence to his widow. Lieutenant Parsons was killed two nights later by American 4.2 mortar shells (Caputo 193-1...

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• Grade Level: High School

... know. I would like to read the "Pentagon Papers" sometime and see the truths behind our government's actions. I think that one of the biggest problems our country had during the Vietnam War was the extreme lack of public support. The U.S. was almost fighting two wars with in it self. There was the government vs. Vietnam and the Government vs. the People, and to think the U.S. was losing lives on both ends ... People's minds started to change as the heat of the war became more apart of the United States. As the war became more and more a part of the lives of the everyday person more and ...

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... know. I would like to read the "Pentagon Papers" sometime and see the truths behind our government's actions. I think that one of the biggest problems our country had during the Vietnam War was the extreme lack of public support. The U.S. was almost fighting two wars with in it self. There was the government vs. Vietnam and the Government vs. the People, and to think the U.S. was losing lives on both ends ... People's minds started to change as the heat of the war became more apart of the United States. As the war became more and more a part of the lives of the everyday person more and ...

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... realising that this had to stop and stop now! It seemed the more the media showed the more the Australian public wanted the war to stop and their soldier's home. In 1970: Anti-Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Begun In May the first of three moratoriums was held to protest against Australia's continuing participation in the Vietnam War and against conscription. The May moratorium was followed by one in September 1970 and another in ... June 1971. The Moratorium campaigns were different from other anti-Vietnam and peace movements of the years between 1965 and 1970. The moratoriums were nationw...

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... is an autobiography written by Mickey Block. This is the true story of Mickey Block, a Navy SEAL who fought in the Vietnam War. This is the story of his life, from his training, to his missions, to life after the war. This book deals with the controversy of the Vietnam War, and the physical and physcological pain and suffering of Vietnam Vets. You read about what it was like in Nam and ... what went on there, as it is told from first hand experience. The author describes the true horror of what it was like during the war, and perhaps even worse, life after the war. The Vietnam War was a...

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... great stories that need to be heard. For the Vietnam War those great stories are captured in Tim O"Brien's story "The things they carried". Tim O"Brien was one of the most influential and talented writers of his time, and in his stories he unveils the truth and the facts of war and tells the readers that war is not fun and games it is serious business. Tim O"Brien was ... these novels O"Brien sticks with one story and tells that one story, but in the novel "The Things They Carried" that is a different story. This novel is a collection of stories about soldiers and how they cope with the...

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... a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietnam and afterwards back in the United States. O'Brien captures the reader with graphic descriptions of the war that make one feel as if they were in Vietnam. The characters are unique and the reader feels sadness and ... exactly what to say. (O'Brien, 179) The soldiers feel that the only people they can talk to about the war are their "brothers-, the other men who exper...

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... a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietnam and afterwards back in the United States. O'Brien captures the reader with graphic descriptions of the war that make one feel as if they were in Vietnam. The characters are unique and the reader feels sadness and ... exactly what to say. (O'Brien, 179) The soldiers feel that the only people they can talk to about the war are their "brothers-, the other men who exper...

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... Norman Bowker turns to the Narrator to help him express his feelings. Both men are in the opinion that the memories are like poison, that to survive they must be released. The soldiers feel that the only people they can talk to about the war are their "brothers", the other men who experienced the Vietnam War. The friendship and kinship that grew in the jungles of Vietnam survived and lived on ... here in the United States. By talking to each other, the soldiers help to sort out the incidents that happened in the War and to put these incidents ... behind them. "The thing to do, we decid...

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The horrors of war in Vietnam and Fowler's attitude to war. The action of "The Quiet American" takes place in Vietnam during the most difficult and troubling period of the life of this country - the time of war between the South and the North. The main character of the book (Fowler) works in Vietnam as a war correspondent and describes the war pictures to the reader very vividly and truthfully. It's important to determine his position because to my mind it coincides ... with the ... ...

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... mental state. "The soldiers also carry stories: stories that connect the past to the future (Calloway)." The setting of the story "The Things They Carried", is one of the elements that prove that the Vietnam War can be mentally challenging. The story takes place during the Vietnam War in the late 1860's (O'Brien 637). Throughout most of the novel, the setting of the story is in the wasteland of Vietnam. The challenging terrain of the Vietnam War is just one ... of the many difficulties they face. Because ... ...

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... it will have in their history. How future people will read and talk about it. As was in Vietnam, the importance is not seen until all is done. I find it good to acknowledge the event that took place during the Vietnam War. Although many say it was a war everyone lost, it is still a significant event in American history. America since its first years of independence, ... seem, this was an ongoing event. Politicians make the call, and the military experts taking the blame. Easy to see, but at the time no. that is until post war years that one could make this argument. It is an argument wo...

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... the world though, so he decided to join the United States Marines. He thought he was the only twenty-two year in the world still living at home. He was confused and trying to be somebody. He did not what lied ahead of him in the Vietnam Conflict, but he would soon find out. In his autobiography, Rumor of War ... we begin to learn the horror and tragedies of the war and what impact the war ... had on his life. When he was first sent to the war he thought that he was doing the right thing. He saw the war as a chance to ... said he was guilty he would be found innocent. He decided that he...

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... literary devices to show the spiritual burden on the soldiers in the Vietnam War, by contrasting this burden with the actual physical load they have to carry. This burden has many aspects, and includes fear as the most important factor. Fear from death in the jungle, fear for the ones at home, and fear that the ones at home might forget them. The conclusion from the story is that the spiritual burden is ... innocent once again and to lift themselves above the horrible war. Objects like weapons help the soldiers to get their mind away from the fear and danger lurking around, but the remi...

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... They Carried is a riveting book in which Vietnam War veteran Tim O"Brien abstractly writes of his experiences in the war. However, unlike many other historical books that focus on war, O"Brien captures not only his fellow soldiers actions and outward feelings, but transgresses into a realm of private thoughts, fears and worries. The Things They Carried is not only a book about fighting and brotherhood, but a book ... conscience and presents it in such a way that it stirs the reader. In one chapter O"Brien remembers a man he killed. The only man he killed in Vietnam. The book goes on to...

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... They Carried Eating Them Away For young people, the Vietnam War is a thing of the past and they can only learn about it from second hand sources. In Tim O'brien's The Things They Carried, it becomes very apparent that the Vietnam conflict has proved to be one that many of the participants have not been able move away from, while getting on with their lives. O brien shows that ... that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while harming its host. The war in this case takes the place of the organism, and the host becomes the soldiers. There are several examples of t...

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... to stay him alive, the plane, is the very thing that finished this life. "The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien, is about struggles, pain and sadness of war. Throughout the story O'Brien creates within the reader an understanding of the special effects of war on the soldiers who fight in Vietnam .The narrator moves further than the horror of fighting in the Vietnam War to examine with sympathy and insight the nature of courage and ... fear. Included, is a set of interrelated stories. By telling stories about the dead the American soldiers in the Vietnam War is trying to make death .....

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... feel if they die dishonorably. It is almost as if the soldiers fight and even die because they are ashamed not to. The men's burdensome amount of fear only adds to their montage of pain.             Another emotional load besides fear that the men have to "hump" is the longing to be with loved ones. In the Vietnam War, many young men were forced to leave their wives ... example, they are uncertain about if they will die. Another burning question that is on everyone's mind concerns the purpose of the Vietnam War--why are the soldiers even there? They march "without purpose" (80) and...

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... 's 1st nationwide public health survey. Louis Pasteur published his first paper on Bacteriology in 1861, the year the Civil War began. Lt. Col. John Shaw Billings led the Army Medical Museum and the Medical Library at the same time. From the time of the Spanish-American War, until WWI, the medical corps experienced great growth. As troops would be led into disease ridden areas, typhoid, malaria, yellow ... 50's leading up to Vietnam were like any other era, filled with expansion in knowledge, and application techniques. The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research experts invented a system...

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... use specific items to further the understanding of the key characters. In "The Things They Carried", Tim O"Brien wrote about the feelings and experiences of young soldiers in the Vietnam War. As he tells the story, he describes the tangible and intangible items that the soldiers chose to load their packs and hearts with. These include the things such as grenades and mosquito nets, yet also the thoughts of family and loved ... ones. The tangible items clue the reader into the physical and mental nature of the individual. The intangible emotions show his true heart ... ...

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... was an interesting story about one man's reflection upon and story of the Vietnam War. I found this book very interesting. I chose it because I knew little of the Vietnam War, and thought it would be educational yet interesting for me to read. I also choose it because it was actually written by someone who was in the war. Philip Caputo starts his story from his indecision of what to do ... with his life after high school. Once he decided to join the marine corps he tells of his ... in fighting this war. Although many parts of this book were gruesome, at the end I felt good. It was a go...

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... cruel and evil themselves. It transforms these children into monsters! The most horrific thing is that it is not the children's fault of the war and they are being punished for it. Such acts of cruelty have been witnessed many times in Vietnam's War, in 1961, by, not the "Vietcong" but by the "supposed" patriotic Americans. They pilfered the villages, raped women AND children and, on top of THAT ... , they would go around Vietnam and murder innocent children for fear that they were spies. And only a HANDFUL of them were. Bloody Americans ... do not question authority, and are easier to ...

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• Grade Level: High School