Because of this, enemies heard them and fire fights broke out. "Combat was intense. We walked with our guns locked and loaded ready to fire. We didn't even bother with the safety. When battle came, we were so scared the drip of sweat off your forehead hitting the ground sounded like a gunshot. All my senses were heightened, I don't know how, but you could feel it when something was out there, and we were ready for it. If we were caught by surprise everyone would be firing, if we weren't we would fire in waves. If there were four of us, two would be firing, then when they needed to reload we would start firing. You wished you would have a million bullets in a clip, because you knew as long as you were firing, they were ducking and you were safe. You wanted to be close to your team too, because if they saw you move out of the corner of their eye and they didn't know you were there, they were gonna shoot you." Everyone on my dad's team made it out alive. Twice they went into Vietnam to rescue people, and twice everyone made it out alive. As a result from these quick "in and out" missions, my father was never severely injured or ill in this war.
The best thing my dad remembers about the war is how beautiful Vietnam was. "Everything was so natural and beautiful, I would rest on trees as big around as this 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 Vietnamese treated each other. "You could hear a buzzing through the jungle a few hundred yards out, and you would know there was a village nearby. When we finally reached it there were Vietnamese bodies, all over the ground, some obviously tortured before death. When the U.S. went over to help South Vietnam, we unintentionally brought our viruses over. So we took doctors, and medicines for the people and more importantly for the children so they wouldn't get sick.
Vietnam has had conflicts since the 1800's. ... She later apologized for her actions ("Stein interview"). Vietnam greatly effected Americans. ... He says the enemy made homemade weapons out of materials left from troops (Stein interview"). ... Some didn't mind the war and where fine (Stein interview"). ...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara during the Vietnam era admits in his memoirs that Vietnam War was a mistake. ... "Whether we decide to abandon Southeast Asia or to try to draw another line outside Vietnam, the loss of Vietnam will result in dozen more Vietnams in different parts of the world. ... As Sergei Khrushchev in his interview to CNN about Cold War comment Soviet crackdown of Hungarian revolt: "don't see any contradiction because it was the peak of the Cold War and the Americans tried to support the order in their side of the world." ... Sergei Khrushchev interview to CNN http:...
"Australians were supportive of Menzies Governments' decision to send troops to Vietnam in support of President Diem's Resistance of Ho Chi Ming. ... " The Vietnam War was fought to support our alliance with the US and in the effort to stop the spread of communism. ... Menzies had a strong belief in the domino theory that would take place if South Vietnam wasn't handled properly. ... This wasn't a big issue until 1966 when the government announced they would be sending the conscripts overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. ... Both this extracts gave a different vi...
Jan Scruggs is a Vietnam veteran who served in Vietnam from 1969 - 1970 as an infantry corporal. ... He founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ... When asked about how she came up with the design, she stated in an interview with Washington Post writer Phil McCombs: It was while I was at the site that I designed it. ... Some Vietnam veterans disagreed. ... The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated to the 2.7 million men and women who served during the Vietnam conflict (Stones and Mortar). ...
He faced the major challenge - Vietnam War. ... However, his efforts to negotiate a compromise with North Vietnam were futile. The key challenge was to force North Vietnam to consider giving the South its independence. ... He and the secretary of State, Henry Kissinger instituted investigations, interviews and eventually, illegal wiretapping and bugging aimed at stopping the leaks. ... In addition John Dean, president's counsel, was allowed to sit in on FBI interviews with the witnesses, which allowed overseeing the investigation. ...
Most general books and texts on the Vietnam War (including Moss' Vietnam, An American Ordeal, Fourth Edition) gloss over, if not skip entirely, the role of women in Vietnam. ... Statistics on civilian women who served in Vietnam are even harder to gather. ... Other women went to Vietnam for a sense of adventure. ... Elbring said in her memoirs: "I went to nursing school so I could go to Vietnam. ... Others worked as teachers and missionaries to the people of South Vietnam. ...
He chose to enroll himself in hopes of having more control over his destination, and avoid the Vietnam War. ... When I was healing, I missed my orders to go to Vietnam. ... He came from Vietnam and spent most of his time trying to get us into trouble. ... As it turns out events all put together kept me from going to Vietnam and kept me alive. ... In conclusion, I found out many things I did not know about my father during this interview, like the details of his missions and some of his feelings about the army. ...
With this being the first scene the narrator (Charlie Sheen) should have begun by introducing the Vietnam War and how the feud between communism and capitalism begun with the "independence" of Vietnam. ... Over all, this movie described an American's view of what took place throughout the Vietnam War. 6. ... Oliver Stone was born and raised in the United States and before filming, Platoon, he interviewed numerous AMERICAN survivors of the Vietnam War. ... Why did America make out to its people that North Vietnam was the first to set off heavy artillery? ... His attitude towards Vietnam...
Vietnam War The man I chose to interview was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. ... Chris: Where in Vietnam did they send you first? ... Chris: What did you think about Vietnam? ... Chris: How did you feel when you first arrived in Vietnam? ... Chris: Did the time you spent in Vietnam change you in anyway? ...
