... has already died, so there are only four members of the crew remaining. As the fog and smoke begins to lift, the boat is blasted with wooden arrows fired from soldiers hidden amongst the Cambodian Jungle. The arrows turn out to be dull and not dangerous, however, the crew's reaction is what makes this scene significant. The men have spent so long amidst violence and war that they ... in front of them. The boat begins to come closer to the natives, and a path is cleared for the boat to slowly approach the temple. As the boat crawls toward the docking area, Willard constantly scans the cr...

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... General Westmoreland, made the two a very opinionated force to be reckoned with, a very reckless force that while strong, was exceedingly poor at military strategy. For example, every morning president Johnson was presented with a map of Vietnam. He would proceed to pick random locations that were to be bombed that day, and often these locations were uninhabited jungle territory with no strategic ... value whatsoever. While the president was wasting material resources, General Westmoreland was busy convincing the president, (and the American public), that with just a few more men, the wa...

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... writhed in pain. Also, many international scientists and influential people around the world protested the use of napalm very adamantly. Yet another type of bomb was dropped by the B-52s, this one containing a large amount of the defoliating gas, Agent Orange. Hundreds of millions of acres of jungle were destroyed and even more fields and rice paddies were poisoned because of Agent Orange. South Vietnamese ... farmers complained about the detrimental effect Agent Orange had on their rice paddies, and its ... death in Vietnam. Weapons were another problem in Vietnam. Again going back to...

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... aide from the US. The aide only reaches the black market, because of many political officials resented American influence. The troops had there own broadcasting station. The broadcasts consisted of daily updates on the weather back in the states. North Vietnam matches the number of troops, that we had. The tactic search and destroy arouses controversy. The US units, the AirForce units, and the South Vietnamese units would patrol in the jungle till they ... found the main force units of the Viet Cong and destroy them. Troops ... ...

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... they were there to rescue didn't want to leave. That didn't matter however, they had a mission, and the mission was going to be carried out. On the way back out, they were responsible for the people who couldn't move quite as quickly and efficiently through the jungle as the special forces was trained to do, so they had to sacrifice stealth for speed to get out ... room, lay my rucksack on a root that lifted half my height out of the earth, and listen to a stream nearby that you couldn't see but just knowing it was there was comforting." The worst thing my dad remembers is how the Vietn...

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... writhed in pain. Also, many international scientists and influential people around the world protested the use of napalm very adamantly. Yet another type of bomb was dropped by the B-52s, this one containing a large amount of the defoliating gas, Agent Orange. Hundreds of millions of acres of jungle were destroyed and even more fields and rice paddies were poisoned because of Agent Orange. South Vietnamese ... farmers complained about the detrimental effect Agent Orange had on their rice paddies, and its ... death in Vietnam. Weapons were another problem in Vietnam. Again going back to...

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... . Even with these wrongs of the war, the soldiers acquired a magnetism to combat (230). The American soldiers were becoming much like the Viet Cong, as there rations became cooked rice rolled into a ball and stuffed with raisins. The soldiers learned to move in the jungle like the Viet Cong and they shared the common miseries of war. The combat soldiers had more in common with the Viet Cong than they did ... with the staff officers (277). During the last part of the battle soldiers changed from being disciplined to savages and back to being disciplined ... ...

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... . Even with these wrongs of the war, the soldiers acquired a magnetism to combat (230). The American soldiers were becoming much like the Viet Cong, as there rations became cooked rice rolled into a ball and stuffed with raisins. The soldiers learned to move in the jungle like the Viet Cong and they shared the common miseries of war. The combat soldiers had more in common with the Viet Cong than they did ... with the staff officers (277). During the last part of the battle soldiers changed from being disciplined to savages and back to being disciplined ... ...

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... put a bounty on the Colonel, that when he let his command of the 4/39th then put a bounty out to bring him back. (p. 399). The terrain was a hindrance to the Battalion. The Mekong Delta is flat and filled with rice paddies, canals and rivers which section through the entire Delta and patches of jungle. The men where always wet, either from the rain, wading through the rivers, canals and paddies ... or just from the humidity. "We were always wet (p. 69)." This posed a hazard ... for the troops; their skin would break down leaving them susceptible to infections. Flesh fell off, ... ...

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