... that we could apply military force in a sanitary and surgical manner. In doing so we unwittingly prepared the war for the reaction that was to follow. " (H.G. Summers, On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War, Novato: Presidio, 1982, pp. 63-4) The American people reacted with anti-war protests. The credibility of the United States government was quickly diminishing. With tension in ... Vietnam conflict. Today, the United States is involved in a similar situation.38 The war in the Middle East has caused enormous public debate and anti-war protests within American culture.39 Be...

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... Plympton Massachusetts. The family could trace their lineage to the Mayflower on both sides including such notables as Priscilla Alden and Myles Standish. Her mother, Deborah Sampson was a very ill widow who had six children, Deborah being the oldest. Deborah's father was a seaman who left the ... children on her own so she sent them away to live with relatives and various neighbors. Deborah was first sent to live with her mother's cousin, Miss. Fuller. At the Fuller house Deborah was content learning the alphabet and reading. Three years after Deborah arrived at the ... growing up he...

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