... depictions of the Vietnam War. While these movies may have some accuracy, they are based primarily on the war recounts provided by the United States news and media. In the book A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives, author Michael Hunt stated that, "Since 1977, Hollywood has been succeeding where Washington consistently failed: namely, in selling Vietnam to ... America was influenced by the medias coverage of the war. "Correspondents and their editors were undermining the American support for the war by putting gruesome images of wounded s...

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... , family, and the United States for extended periods of time. Some did find small ways to cope with this however. One soldier always carried a book from the states with him and read it repeatedly, claiming that the book was his "companion" during hard times of the war. Most soldiers though still felt the desire for human comfort through proximity even ... ...

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