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…inevitably endure. Not many people find comfort in reminiscing about the many innocents killed in Vietnam or the souls destroyed by racial profiling in the race riots of the 1960s. In Born in the U.S.A, No Surrender, and My Hometown, Springsteen engages…

…had happened. After president Kennidy died in the hospital L.B.J. took office. Soon after the United States of America went to war in Vietnam. The Television played a majore part during this war. Reporters and news crews would be conducting daily…

…. Meanwhile in East Asia, France had set up missionaries in Vietnam and was alarmed by the growing of British Colonies in East Asia. France then established a French protectorate of Vietnam and later Cambodia, Annam, Tonkin, and Laos were also protectorates…

…The Vietnam War has continued to play itself out in fiction, history books, and autobiographies, but no American writer has captured the essence of the Vietnamese like Robert Olen Butler. Butler captures the lives of a people that managed to beat…

…My Lai Massacre What Americans refer to as the My Lai Massacre happened in the quiet village of Son My, only a kilometer from the coast of Vietnam in Quang Ngai Province. On March 16, less than two months after the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese…

…be heading to the same horrors of the past. Without the study of our history, such as the Vietnam War, we would have never learned the enormous amounts of American soldiers that died for nothing, in my opinion. The tragic misuse of air and naval power…

…occurrences. The only book that "might stand" the test of time is Slaughterhouse Five. He became the spokesperson for a generation; invited to many college campuses to speak in 60's. Appeared in height of Vietnam War, and caught many peoples' attention. He…

…each side. In 1930 a 40-year-old Communist revolutionary named Nguyen Sinh Cung helped found the Indochinese Communist Party with the goal of shaking off the French rule in Vietnam. By World War II Nguyen was using the name Ho Chi Minh and had also formed…

…After 1968 the US had huge problems. The Vietnam War drained the economy and society as a whole lost faith in the people who ran the country. The USSR recognized the need for Détente as they had many problems of their own. The Cuban missile…

…Ben Dunn To what extent did guerrilla tactics of the Vietcong enable them to achieve victory? Its critical strategic position in south east Asia bordered by China, Cambodia and Laos made Vietnam of great significance to Western and Communist powers…