... as their soldiers. Protests were not only made up of hippies, but also students, intellectuals, radicals, and citizens of all classes. Although there were many differences they all shared one common goal. They wanted their troops to come back home and the involvement of the United States to come to an end. The hippie culture started in San Francisco, California, and ... called LSD. LSD was an intellectual tool to explore physic "inner space" and has been known to put them in charge of their surroundings (Cavan 114). Bad LSD was so common at Woodstock that people were having bad trips an...

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... did. Opium and Heron came in 3rd place of the most used drugs. This was partly because on one wanted to be caught "nodding" during an ambush. Binges were very common during the last year of the War due to the remarkable low price and astound purity. American service men could buy a gram of 95 percent pure heron for only $2.00 ... .00 and would rarely be more than 10 percent pure. Opium was often rolled in to cigarettes and gave a similar high as heron. Opium was very addictive and was less common. However, Opium drove some Vietnam veterans to commit crimes to support their habits back in...

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... their attitude toward the Vietnamese and their own military duty. Life became unreal to many servicemen and atrocities such as "fragging" (murdering an officer, typically with a grenade) became all too common. (7) The pacification effort was suffering as well. Few Americans could distinguish between North and South Vietnamese, much less understand their language. As a result of this unfamiliarity and the stresses of ... ...

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... died he left nothing behind except his id card which Nguyen Tat Thanh later purchased. Thanh used this name when he was arrested. The use of a deceased person identification was a common practice in Chinese outlaw society. Upon release from jail, he returned to the Soviet Union where it was reported that he spent several years recovering from tuberculosis. In 1938 he ... ...

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... loses during the Tet Offensive and the U.S. embassy was over ran by the Viet Cong. This was another shock to Americans at home, and protests against the war were now a common thing. After the Tet Offensive it is said that three out of every four Americans no longer approved in Johnson's conduct of war; the American people were looking for a new ... ...

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From 1965 to 1972, Australian armed forces served in the Vietnam War under the banner of the United States of America. The act of going to war, so common in Australian history, became perhaps the single most controversial issue in the short history of our nation. Whilst traditionally the populace were supportive of Australians in war, many were opposed ... ...

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