... being pushed back further into the thickly settled trees and overgrown plants. The last hope to fend off the Communist invaders was for the United States Air Force to use bio-chemical warfare to kill the plants that hid the enemy. Operation Ranch Hand was the answer. Operation ranch hands mission was to drop the biochemical weapon upon identified enemy targets ... areas. The bio- chemical was called Agent Orange. Agent Orange did its job by clearing all the trees in the area but, in doing so the chemical poisoned and killed thousands of people ... ...

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... throughout their presidency. Some Presidents have used their final addresses to either tell the public their hope for the future as in George Washington's farewell address, advise a course of action needed to be taken such as Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address or apologize for past deeds ... our affairs with foreign nations, and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence, impelled me to abandon the idea." Next Washington addresses the importance of staying together as a Union versus Sectionalism. The country was starting to become divided into parts, the North, the ......

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... to compare how both have different aspects and features which make them unique and original in their own ways. From the simple "bent line" at Washington D.C. to the circular "time clock" at Holmdel, it is hard to realize that they are not both memorials, but many aspects of architecture ... different ways. The enclosure feature separates the spaces, whether it be the way inside of the memorial as in Holmdel or the actual inside as in Washington D.C.. At Holmdel, one must enter the immense circle-like structure through an enclosed entryway, made of concrete. So, when walking to the memori...

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... did not do anything to prevent the spread of such a conquest). The United States only "loaned" war toys to Britain to fight Hitler until Washington got dragged into the war due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Pacific conquest of Japan. After numerous battles with Hitler, the European ... affairs that they didn't bother with other countries. This is the time that Italy, Japan, Spain, and Germany all turned communist. Moving on, Washington knew that Japan was ready to attack the United States for the territory they held in the Pacific. The Japanese were attacking island by island be...

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... Vietnam seemed logical and compelling to American leaders. Following its success in World War II, the United States faced the future with a sense of moral rectitude and material confidence. From Washington's perspective, the principal threat to U.S. security and world peace was monolithic, dictatorial communism emanating from he Soviet Union. Any communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, and ... America's plans for the defense of Europe through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After China became a communist state in 1949, the stability of Japan became of paramou...

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... Vietnam seemed logical and compelling to American leaders. Following its success in World War II, the United States faced the future with a sense of moral rectitude and material confidence. From Washington's perspective, the principal threat to U.S. security and world peace was monolithic, dictatorial communism emanating from he Soviet Union. Any communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, and ... America's plans for the defense of Europe through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After China became a communist state in 1949, the stability of Japan became of paramou...

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... as its president. Scruggs and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund lobbied Congress for a two acre plot of land in the Constitutional Garden located on The Mall in Washington D.C.. On July 1, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed legislation which provided a site near the Lincoln Memorial (The Vietnam Veteran's ). The design of the Vietnam ... as the winner of the design competition, did she smile. When asked about how she came up with the design, she stated in an interview with Washington Post writer Phil McCombs: It was while I was at the site that I designed it. I just sort of visualized i...

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... of 1965, other types of protests grew through 1971 and replaced it. All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people marched on Washington Avenue (Wells, 25). The march was organized by a group called the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. It was a broad coalition of over one hundred antiwar groups ... the crowd together was their firm opposition to the US involvement in the war. The three day events included rallies in New York and other cities, and massive demonstrations in Washington itself (DeBenedetti, 280). It was a...

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... of 1965, other types of protests grew through 1971 and replaced it. All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people marched on Washington Avenue (Wells, 25). The march was organized by a group called the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. It was a broad coalition of over one hundred antiwar groups ... the crowd together was their firm opposition to the US involvement in the war. The three day events included rallies in New York and other cities, and massive demonstrations in Washington itself (DeBenedetti, 280). It was a...

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... of 1965, other types of protests grew through 1971 and replaced it. All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people marched on Washington Avenue (Wells, 25). The march was organized by a group called the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. It was a broad coalition of over one hundred antiwar groups ... the crowd together was their firm opposition to the US involvement in the war. The three day events included rallies in New York and other cities, and massive demonstrations in Washington itself (DeBenedetti, 280). It was a...

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... study to the New York Times. Upon the first publication of the reports the government sought and received an injunction to halt publication. The reports were then leaked to the Washington Post and the injunction extended. In petitioning the court, the executive branch said it should be the sole judge of national security needs and should be granted a court order to ... would be detrimental to the security of the nation. Former Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold represented the government. Yale law professor, Alexander M. Bickel represented the Times. While the attorney for the Washingt...

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... from the front lines. Westmoreland commanded over 500,000 troops at the peak of the war, and was still unable to crush the Viet Cong, as hoped by most of Washington. 3 But there were many factors that contributed to our startling defeat on the ground in Vietnam. The first and foremost was the difference in tactics between the Americans and the ... the weaknesses, the ground war would have also been a snap. This shows that relying too heavily on technology and not enough on battle-tested weapons can be downright deadly. Leaders, Washington, and the Morale Issue While Johnson and Westmore...

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... from the front lines. Westmoreland commanded over 500,000 troops at the peak of the war, and was still unable to crush the Viet Cong, as hoped by most of Washington. 3 But there were many factors that contributed to our startling defeat on the ground in Vietnam. The first and foremost was the difference in tactics between the Americans and the ... the weaknesses, the ground war would have also been a snap. This shows that relying too heavily on technology and not enough on battle-tested weapons can be downright deadly. Leaders, Washington, and the Morale Issue While Johnson and Westmore...

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... it completely. The found attack order was then published on January 5th, but still attracted very little attention. As 1968 approached, the U.S. appeared to be winning the war. But in Washington on December 18th, General Earle G. Wheeler, join Chief of Staff, cautioned that it is entirely possible there may be a Communist thrust similar to the desperate effort of the Germans in ... Bulge in World War II. The U.S. suspicions about a possible uprising became stronger as the Tet-Offensive grew closer. In Saigon, on December 20th, General William C. Westmoreland of the U.S. Army cabled Wash...

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... lived by a whole new set of rules, their own. It was not uncommon for "several hundred thousand" (Gitlin, 1989) young adults to gather, mostly peacefully, at various locations such as Washington, D.C. Most of these people were just caught up in the moment, feeling the way of the times, and being fanatical about what they felt was right. They were very sick ... effects that harmed their progress. Although it was unlikely that the government would have pulled out of the war because their were two hundred thousand "hippies" in the streets of Washington, DC. It is likely that they could hav...

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... the American public behind the military, and given the U.S. a clear reason for involvement in Vietnam.""(Dudley & Bender, 1990, p. 53) Though, in the beginning of the war, most Americans did back Washington's Vietnam policy. The government made it look as a Communist guerrilla movement that used terror and coercion to force the South Vietnamese into submission. But as the reporting started moving away ... high despite mounting casualties.""(Accuracy In Media [AIM], 1989, p. 9) This was not the case with Vietnam, where the government did just the opposite. "As Crosby Noyes, foreign edito...

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... hours to debate the war issue. Berkeley protesters became national leaders as the protests spread nationwide; more than 50,000 students, faculties and other activists from different universities traveled to Washington D.C to protest the war (Von Eschen lecture, Global Protest and Détente) From this atmosphere, two Berkeley residents formed the Black Panther, an African American revolutionary leftist party that practiced ... ...

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The Moment the War Comes Home After landing 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 ... ...

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... to lug around. As you read, you can grasp each man's internal weight and how they have to carry it and why. John Greenya, a journalist and book reviewer for the Washington Post stated it "avoids grand sweeping sentences and word tsunamis, opting instead for simplicity. But it's not a mannered simplicity, the kind that after a while devolves into self-parody; it ... ...

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... to do so. Subsequently there was a decrease in protests and he had a 71% approval rating. But many protested after the invasion of Cambodia. 250,000 took to the streets of Washington between 14th and 16th of November with 40,000 people carry candles past the White House each saying the name of a dead soldier. In May 1970, four students were shot ... ...

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... persuaded the Southern Vietnamese government to appoint him as prime minister. Diem received huge amounts of American support from military equipment and aid money to troop training and advise from Washington. Stopping the spread of communism now fell on the North Vietnam to accept the division of Vietnam and that Diem becomes an effective leader, neither of which happened. South Vietnam ... ...

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... reached an astonishing $500 million dollars. It was a brisk spring night in Memphis as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on a second story balcony discussing the next week's march on Washington with his colleagues. Suddenly a single shot broke the silence of the night air. King's co-workers thought it was some kind of bad joke until they saw him lying on ... ...

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... , we have created an internal hatred and jealousy within more than one opposing nation. This fact is shown in the example concerning the bombing of the World Trade Center towers. ("Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2001") There are five main ways of aiding countries with our tax dollars. Our tax dollars are spent on the food rations to refugees fleeing their countries ... ...

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... problems that our society is facing during this time (846). When addressing all of these issues, Potter believes that we must create a movement or system that works not just in Washington, but in communities and with the problems that face people throughout society. This movement would also understand the nation of Vietnam rather than allow the State Department and the Pentagon ... ...

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... Watergate) started the unraveling of the web. At first, the burglary seemed minor and un-newsworthy and no one was really interested. Two reporters assigned to the story by The Washington Post, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, found some unusual anomalies during their investigation of the story. They proceeded to follow up on the burglary after everyone else gave up. Their ... ...

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