... villagers. When they returned to base their story was that they had set up an ambush and something went wrong. By this time Caputo was beginning to gave nightmares of the people he had watched die in Vietnam. He decided to amend his statement and tell the truth about what really happened that night. He was then charged with lying and murder. He ... decided that he would make the deal and he was sent home from Vietnam. As he got on the plane to go home after eleven months and eighteen days in the war, he had learned all about death and would never be able to forget his experience. Caputo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... unique perspectives on the war possible. He was a young Marine lieutenant when the Marines first came ashore in force in Vietnam in March of 1965. Ten years later he was one of the reporters that reported on the final fall of Saigon to Communist North Vietnamese forces. Caputo is one of the first Marines ashore in Vietnam and is part of the initial process of escalation that led to ... . I was also glad that the charges were dropped, even though they did kill innocent people. The Vietnam War was different from any other war in our history because of the type of warfare that was being use...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Philip Caputo is a product of the US Marines system during the Vietnam War. The Marine Corp had very extreme policies and expectations that precipitated their questionable actions during the war. Caputo's involvement and unjust persecution is a result of the Marine Corps training and action that leads to the development of psychological problems for its marines. For Caputo, his mindset that leads to his alleged murder ... believe is the actions needed and appropriate to reach these expectations, which includes kill civilians with reasonable reason. Caputo's landing in Danang marks the beginnin...

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... 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 ... combat situations. The emotions they must experience killing someone, and trying to find justice in doing so; reminding themselves it is for the good of their country. In the beginning of the book I could ...

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... between fellow troops and higher ranked officers. In the beginning of The Sands of Iwo Jima there was little admiration for the relentlessly tough Marine Sergeant Stryker. The rebellious soldiers learn to respect Sgt. Stryker as a brave and heroic figure. However, in Platoon the war between good and evil progresses as the troops lose reality. The squad is split between the good Sgt. Elias ... his own son, so he felt responsible to take over as his father figure. In Platoon the father figure for Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is Sergeant Elias. Everyone in the Vietnam War treated the "new ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... The chemical would be sprayed over huge areas sometimes in a 10-mile radius destroying everything in its path. Through out the Vietnam War soldiers were beginning to complain of severe medical problems. The army was not certain of the causes but believed them to be from the people of Vietnam or the surrounding areas. By 1968, the United States army had received an estimated 4,000 reports ... of unexplainable illnesses. Many scientists became suspicious and began to conduct experiments to find out the causes of these illnesses. They came up ... , porohyria cutanea tarda (PCT), respirator...

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• Grade Level: High School

... The chemical would be sprayed over huge areas sometimes in a 10-mile radius destroying everything in its path. Through out the Vietnam War soldiers were beginning to complain of severe medical problems. The army was not certain of the causes but believed them to be from the people of Vietnam or the surrounding areas. By 1968, the United States army had received an estimated 4,000 reports ... of unexplainable illnesses. Many scientists became suspicious and began to conduct experiments to find out the causes of these illnesses. They came up ... , porohyria cutanea tarda (PCT), respirator...

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• Grade Level: High School

... known as Agent Orange. The toxic chemical was used to eliminate ground cover during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese troops would hide underneath the thick forest and make it impossible for United States troops to spot them. The Army began using Agent Orange as a way of eliminating that problem. The government had very little knowledge about the deadly chemical but went ... bright orange canisters that it was stored in. During the Vietnam War, 11.2 million gallons of Agent Orange were used throughout Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Approximately 2.6 million United States soldiers served in Sout...

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• Grade Level: High School

... A 1980 movie, A Rumor of War, based on Philip J. Caputo's book by the same title, reflects much of the pain and ambivalence the nation came to know too well. Like most Americans in the 1950s, Caputo grew up knowing little of Asia and virtually nothing of Vietnam. After the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the possibility of the spread of communism in Vietnam captured the attention of the United States ... were eventually driven back, America's quest for a rapid victory was dashed. Under intense criticism because of his escalation of the war, Johnson did not seek re-election in 1968 and, f...

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• Grade Level: High School

... in harms way and feeling down, Bob would be on his way to the front lines to cheer them up. He has been there from the start of World War II, all the way to Operation Desert Storm. He helped the troops understand what they were fighting for and how much America depended on them. Whether ... as they could fit into an hour or two showing. He quickly gained respect and admiration with his witty ad-libs and ridiculous sketches. This would be the beginning of a career that would span half a century and would touch so many lives. When Bob first got the call to help his country out in Europe an...

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• Grade Level: High School

... in harms way and feeling down, Bob would be on his way to the front lines to cheer them up. He has been there from the start of World War II, all the way to Operation Desert Storm. He helped the troops understand what they were fighting for and how much America depended on them. Whether ... as they could fit into an hour or two showing. He quickly gained respect and admiration with his witty ad-libs and ridiculous sketches. This would be the beginning of a career that would span half a century and would touch so many lives. When Bob first got the call to help his country out in Europe an...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 's Full Metal Jacket is a somewhat realistic film. The movie creates a very disturbing and realistic picture of the Vietnam War not through historical accuracy or sensitive treatment of characters, but by presenting a series of situations that span an entire war. It seems as if these situations were the experiences of one set of recruits from start to finish. In this file there are no full-blown characters and they ... individual character. The Marines are just that, Marines, not people; In a more conventional film, the Marines might be people in the beginning and anonymous killers by th...

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• Grade Level: High School

Black Hawk Down In the beginning of this movie, Black Hawk Down ¸ United States Marines and Army Rangers are sent into a marketplace in Mogadishu, Somalia, on a mission that was suppose to take thirty minutes. They were to abduct two lieutenants of a Somalia Warlord. But after some difficulties and not being able ... to accomplish what they were suppose to before being spotted by Somali militia, they were there for a total of fifteen hours involved in the longest battle involving American troops since the Vietnam War. It took them that long to just get to the safe zone controlled by U. N. fo...

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• Grade Level: High School