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…In 1989, Dr. Gerbode and I [Gerald French] and Helen Burgess--a facilitator and professional member of IRM--were using Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) with a number of Vietnam combat vets who had been diagnosed as having PTSD. Tom Joyce, a freelance…

…of things the soldiers in the Vietnam War carried. The realism of all the physical and emotional, tangible and intangible things they carried are vividly described throughout the entire story. The realism of the weights of many different tangible objects…

…, much more. The US was in the midst of the Vietnam War. Reports of bombings in Cambodia reached the New York Times through a leak in the White House. President Nixon became worried and had four reporters and thirteen government officials secretly tapped…

…a strong optimistic person. He was an honorary veteran back in Vietnam. He had fought in the war between North and South Vietnam. When the war was over and the communist won, my father was sent to prison for fighting against them. My father used to tell me…

…and his men were called to check out My Lai in vietnam, he expected to arrive on many Vietcong. When Calley and his men got to My Lai they found nothing but civilians. Mainly elderly, women and children. He was surprised because they were told that there were…

…able to defend their attackers. The second time it was in Vietnam. Like the first battle North Vietnam was trying to conquer South Vietnam and make it a communistic nation. The US sent massive manpower into it and lost many solders, but we were unsuccessful…

…Young Steve Corman was an intelligent 18 year old. Living in the quiet little town of Saursville, Kentucky, in 1968, Steve looked forward to going to school everyday, playing ball for the SHS Trojans, and following the news about the pinkos in Vietnam…

…established there by people of the Malay origin--Champa, controlling part of central and southern Vietnam, and Funan (Funan), sited in the southernmost part of Vietnam and most of present day Cambodia. Funan was at the peak of its power at the end of the fifth…

…gone too deep into the jungles of Africa in search of ivory, while in Apocalypse Now, Kurtz is a high-ranking officer in the military who has disobeyed orders and is now fighting the Vietnam war in Cambodia with his unit…

…Woodstock 1969 The Sixties were an exciting revolutionary period with great cultural change. Some people called it the “decade of discontent” (Britannica) due to the race riots in Detroit and La, and the demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Other…