Furthermore, Americans faced great difficulty in being able to communicate with the Vietnamese peasants, and believed that "[their] concept of [nationhood] was largely gone in the rural areas, much less of patriotism," (Mecklin 3). ... This was also largely paradoxical to the anti-colonist foundation of the United States, and brings to mind Patrick Henry's reflection of American sentiment in the American Revolution: "give me liberty or give me death!...

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