... very worried about the children's death. The image of a dead child appears several times in the book: a dead child in a ditch, a dead baby in the square (whose mother was covering his body with her straw peasant hat with a kind of modesty) and two boys in a watchtower, where Fowler and Pyle stayed for a ... while. "One shouldn't fight war with children," - said Fowler. After the explosion at the square he wondered how many dead colonels could justify a child's or a trishaw driver's death. He felt really sorry for all those injured and dead and for the country ... itself. But why Fowler ...

• Word Count: 1052
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... world. As far as the actual land mass, Korea is a country no larger than the state of Kansas. All together, North and South Korea covers an area of 85,246 square miles, and only fifteen percent of that can be considered plains - these are mostly in the southern coastal regions. The United States could not allow its interests in East Asia, particularly ... to defend North Korea. After many deliberations the United States decided to continue on. As they said they would, China stepped into the war and drove the Southerners back sixty miles below the 38th parallel, recapturing Seoul. (Boors...

• Word Count: 1181
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... Cambodia lie to the west. South China lies to the east. Vietnam is shaped like and S. It stretches the length of Indochinese Peninsula and covers a surface area of 128,000 square miles. Making Vietnam roughly the size of the U.S. state of New Mexico. Vietnam has a beautiful landscape. It has soaring mountains. It has forest that include exotic plants, and amazing rivers, waterfalls ... ...

• Word Count: 1156
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... "deep waters," several smaller ports, eight jet air bases with 10,000-foot runways, 200 smaller airfields, and 200 heliports. Finally, there was construction of millions of square feet covered of refrigerated storage, hundreds of miles of roads, hundreds of bridges, oil pipelines and tanks, and all the other "apparatuses of a modern logistic infrastructure." The soldiers in the field received "lavish logistic ... ...

• Word Count: 579
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School