... true number of kills far exceeds one hundred. Hathcock even became famous among the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army who developed a great fear of his deadly marksmanship. The enemy called him "Long Tra'ng- The White Feather, for the feather Hathcock always wore in his bush hat. Eventually Hathcock would earn ... "bubble- now a zone of total concentration. (Feamster Pg.1, 2) Carlos worked his rifle just like he did on the range securing a bulls eye with a deadly shot of the VC soldier. Hathcock now went from a target shooter to a true marine soldier with his first kill. Officially, it ...

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... eliminate the VC's advantageous hiding places, but it only turned the people we were fighting for against us even more. Even more so, Agent Orange cause countless birth defects and deadly illnesses in returning vets. Thousands of soldiers came back with reoccurring sicknesses, and even cancer. 6 The use of Agent Orange was perhaps one of the largest mistakes made in Vietnam ... but eliminate the weaknesses, the ground war would have also been a snap. This shows that relying too heavily on technology and not enough on battle-tested weapons can be downright deadly. Leaders, Washington, an...

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... eliminate the VC's advantageous hiding places, but it only turned the people we were fighting for against us even more. Even more so, Agent Orange cause countless birth defects and deadly illnesses in returning vets. Thousands of soldiers came back with reoccurring sicknesses, and even cancer. 6 The use of Agent Orange was perhaps one of the largest mistakes made in Vietnam ... but eliminate the weaknesses, the ground war would have also been a snap. This shows that relying too heavily on technology and not enough on battle-tested weapons can be downright deadly. Leaders, Washington, an...

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... for United States troops to spot them. So in 1962 the Army began using Agent Orange as a way of eliminating that problem. The government had very little knowledge about the deadly chemical but went ahead and used it anyway. They had no idea of the disastrous long-term effects that it would have on men, women and children. But the hardest ... the war. (Online, lewispublishing, Mar 27. 1999) As the planes would drop the massive amounts of Agent Orange onto Vietnam, United States soldiers would unknowingly walk to certain disaster. The deadly chemical affected everyone from ground troops t...

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... we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." (McNamara "The Tragedy and lessons of Vietnam" Preface) Many argue now that the Vietnam War was a deadly mistake, and it is my opinion as well. History cannot be looked at trough White and Black glasses. There are neither completely wrong nor right decisions, nor does completely "good ... . By 1950's South-East Asia became place where interest of superpowers, such as United States, China and USSR, as well as fading colonial empires like France and United Kingdom, created deadly tensions. American leaders felt...

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Analysis On: The Killing Fields A film about two reporters covering the Cambodian Revolution Directed By: Roland Joffé Two reporters, one american, another cambodian, embark on a dangerous and deadly adventure to uncover and reveal to the world the secret bombings of Cambodia by the United States during their withdrawal from Vietnam. Little did they know that they would be ... detail the two governments, one of America and one of Cambodia, in a powerful and explosive film. The Americas in deep peril of revealing different sets of conspiracies and Cambodia in a deadly revolution. The two are...

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... for United States troops to spot them. So in 1962 the Army began using Agent Orange as a way of eliminating that problem. The government had very little knowledge about the deadly chemical but went ahead and used it anyway. They had no idea of the disastrous long-term effects that it would have on men, women and children. But the hardest ... the war. (Online, lewispublishing, Mar 27. 1999) As the planes would drop the massive amounts of Agent Orange onto Vietnam, United States soldiers would unknowingly walk to certain disaster. The deadly chemical affected everyone from ground troops t...

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... its victims. Napalm was even weaponized into flamethrowers and air bombs making them much more powerful and gruesome. Now imagine innocent civilians including women and children being hit with this deadly substance just because they're village may have been suspected of harboring and helping the enemy. Or they were considered to be in the way on the battlefield and looked ... ...

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... has left for them. This pestiferous chemical can no longer go on unnoticed, as it caused too many pains and sufferings; and as of now, a way to battle against this deadly weapon is yet to be found. It could only be contained but not completely killed, as it continued to restrain the people of Vietnam under their ongoing struggles. With government ... ...

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... of the dealers who operate out of their homes don't even have a license to operate. This is just one of many examples of the need for gun control. People sell deadly weapons to who ever has enough money to purchase them. These illegal dealers are one of the main sources for guns carried by kids, and they contribute to a good portion ... ...

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... off limits, the U.S. Air Force was prevented from attacking nearly all military targets crucial to the war effort of the enemy. During the early part of Rolling Thunder even the deadly surface to air missile (SAM) sites could not be attacked until they were fully operational. ( firing SA-2 missiles at U.S. planes! ). As each phase of the bombing failed to produce results ... ...

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... but eliminate the weaknesses, the ground war would have also been a snap. This shows that relying too heavily on technology and not enough on battle-tested weapons can be downright deadly (McNamara 73). While Johnson and Westmoreland had loads of support at the beginning of the war, the American people started to see that the war was unwinnable; their support began ... ...

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... no concessions be made. The North Veitnamese also rejected many of the provisions of the draft. The conflict became worse in December 1972, when the Nixon administration unleashed a series of deadly bombing raids against targets in North Vietnam's largest cities, Hanoi and Haiphong. These attacks were looked down on by the international community and forced the Nixon administration to reconsider its ... ...

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... affected the United States politics, economics, military, and its social history. The war in Vietnam was an unpopular war that was not supported by many Americans. The particularly bloody and deadly military action that occurred during and after the Tet Offensive caused the downfall of the American President, the deaths of several collage students, a major increase in the national debt, the ... ...

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... action was. Caputo as well as the rest of the marines where surprised to find that with Vietnam brought boredom. Day after day they sat around just waiting. It became a deadly routine of keeping watch and repairing things. Caputo began to think of the war as "phony." There was always talk of action, but nothing ever followed through. War wasn't amounting ... ...

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... with 94% cotton these outfits quickly disintegrated in the hot and humid jungle climates. An M60; a general purpose machinegun that was light enough to be carried on patrol but proved deadly in a firefight, and/or an M16 which fired .223 caliber bullets at a rate of 750-900 rounds per minute on an automatic setting. A new kind of cartridge was developed for ... ...

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... do for your country" (qtd. in Caputo xiv). The proud young military men believed that the Viet Cong could be swiftly conquered only to come to awareness these guerrillas were a deadly, persistent enemy who were willing to sustain continual casualties, while the U.S. government became just as responsible for inflicting tremendous casualties physically and morally during the war. Young American men went ... ...

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... with 94% cotton these outfits quickly disintegrated in the hot and humid jungle climates. An M60; a general purpose machinegun that was light enough to be carried on patrol but proved deadly in a firefight, and/or an M16 which fired .223 caliber bullets at a rate of 750-900 rounds per minute on an automatic setting. A new kind of cartridge was developed for ... ...

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... make it impossible for United States troops to spot them. The Army began using Agent Orange as a way of eliminating that problem. The government had very little knowledge about the deadly chemical but went ahead and used it anyway. They had no idea of the disastrous long-term effects that it would have on men, women and children. The hardest group ... ...

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... mouth, lungs, and throat (http://www.innerbody.com/text/drug13.html). When you look at what is in a cigarette is quite disturbing that you can still smoke something that contains deadly chemicals such as cyanide and insecticide. So when you look at the chemicals and ingredients put in a cigarette, you are basically injecting hundreds of harmful chemicals and substances that are ... ...

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... do for your country" (qtd. in Caputo xiv). The proud young military men believed that the Viet Cong could be swiftly conquered only to come to awareness these guerrillas were a deadly, persistent enemy who were willing to sustain continual casualties, while the U.S. government became just as responsible for inflicting tremendous casualties physically and morally during the war. Young American men went ... ...

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