... to come home in a body bag and become another statistic. Young American teenagers were being thrown into the jungle only to be slaughtered by the enemy, who was at home in the dense forests. The Vietnam War was a war fought without rules. Innocent Vietnamese civilians were killed whether by accident or not. ... Women and children were forced to use themselves as human bombs to kill American soldiers. If they refused they would be sliced limb from limb by Viet Cong soldiers. No war is a good ... war, but this is as bad as they come. The war got the best of most soldiers. Many never made...

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... hand grenades and shoot at different distances with rocket launchers and grenade launchers. This A.I.T training was an additional eight weeks of training. Altogether, the U.S spent a little over 16 weeks preparing the American soldier for a different kind of warfare. One moment of relaxation was allowed; the soldiers were allowed to see their family and loved ones before going off to Vietnam. After saying their " ... ;good-byes" and "I love yous" it was time for them to start a journey into unknown territory in South East Asia. At four ... p.m. my grandfather left Ohio for the base ...

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... brutality. The journey into the jungle takes the viewer into the heart of the darkness, providing the viewer with the indications that we are getting deeper into the evil as we progress down the river. The themes of horror are evident in this movie just as sharply as they are in The Things They Carried. The main theme in Apocalypse Now is the concept that in order to survive and function as a "good" soldier one ... must disconnect themselves from their rational views and all of their morals must be disregarded. Colonel Kurtz, the rogue military cult leader who Willard is hunting, eventu...

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... face. Caputo really drew you into his words. It made me think about the way men and women must feel in these 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 not quite understand his thirst for war and fighting. Then ... they reassigned him to combat. I do not know how the armed forces work, but I guess they must give some consideration to what an upper level soldier wants to do. Of course later in the book, the murder was thought pr...

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... States send all these troops over to fight? Just for the fun of it? No, they are doing it for the good of our country, those troops were over there fighting and dying for us. That is why I feel this is a weak argument. I feel that every effort and every battle fought, and every soldier that died, and risked his life for his country, was ... very brave and courageous, and will never be forgotten. This war was fought to protect us, the United ... States citizens, how can we sit there and argue, and contradict the United States government, and there decisions about such a major issue....

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... Carried, Tim O Brien goes as far as to say, "War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love." (O" Brien 80) In war, a soldier's proximity to death makes him at times more alive than ever before, and in life ... a striking realization that war is real. War is not like Looney Tunes and other cartoons where the good guys cheerfully chase after the bad guys and destroy them, only to meet them again the next episode. The death and destruction that occurred in Vie...

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