Truong's A Viet Cong Memoir

He would take the Confucian exam and would also do very well and which allow him to take any job. Chau and Trinh had different opinions on free Indochina most specifically free Vietnam. Chau believe that a royal family should rule after and he would trace the lineage of Nguyen dynasty and found Prince Cuong De to be the new king of Vietnam. He would bring the Prince to Japan in 1907 and the Prince never go back to Vietnam. Trinh agree to disagree with Chau on his plan for free Indochina/Vietnam.

R. McMaster is an American soldier and a career officer in the U.S army. The purpose of McMaster’s book is to analyze how and why the United States becomes involved in the Vietnam War. During this, the author also explains on what he thinks why the president decided to keep the war going instead and escalate it. McMaster came to a conclusion that Johnson made the mess himself and he chose to escalate the war. The author presents the war as a consequence of specific decisions made by specific men, Lyndon B. Johnson.

Everyone has gone somewhere or seen something for a second time that they hadn’t before. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried “Field Trip” chapter it is sort of like Deja Vu- going somewhere that you’ve been before although not having the same experience with it. O’Brien wrote The Things They Carried to help readers get a taste of what it was like to fight in the Vietnam war and the aftermath of it. In the chapter "Field Trip", O'Brien uses imagery and compares the experience of returning to Vietnam between him and his daughter to show the significance that the war had on his life.

Most people don’t know much about what exactly happened in the Vietnam War. Should this war have even happened? Many Americans believe this war was unnecessary for the armed forces to participate in, especially because of the damage caused in WWII. Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They carry, offers a collection of short stories in which each expresses the different Vietnam experiences. Every story in this novel was impressive for its own unique reason.

We begin with the 40th celebration of North Vietnam’s victory, commemorating the date April 30th as the day in which Vietnam gained liberation from invading American troops. However on this day instead of national celebration there is easily a great rift between North and South Vietnam citizens being witnessed throughout. While the North celebrate April 30th, as a day of liberation those in the South believe the day to hold feelings of helplessness and defeat. To those whom were born or living before the fall of Saigon; the capital city of South Vietnam, it is believed to be the date in which a civil war ensured. Below begins the analyzation of three primary/ secondary sources comparing and contrasting the different views held over the decades

The Vietnam War was a long battle of seventeen long years. There were many causes leading up to this traumatic event. The U.S. got involved because of the spread of communism throughout Asia. The novel, The Things They Carried is about how morality can change both how a soldier thinks and feels. In Tim O’Brien’s historical fiction novel, The Things They Carried, both the physical and geographical surroundings shape the psychological traits of the characters during the following events: Mary Anne’s disappearance, the death of Curt Lemon and Mitchell Sander’s unbelievable story.

Ho Chi Minh’s motivations had nothing to do with the desires of the Soviet Union, it was to make Vietnam a better country for its people. This exactly supports Fowlers idea that the Vietnamese only wanted freedom and unity. This makes Fowlers perspective the more justifiable

During the Vietnam War, another war broke out known as the Laotian Civil War. An organization and communist political movement called “Pathet Lao” from North Vietnam was trying to overthrow the Royal Lao Government. While this was happening the CIA recruited the Hmong led by general Vang Pao, (who were an ancient hill-tribe from the mountains of Laos) as a secret alliance, to help aid the Royal Lao Government. (Batson, 1991, “Birth of Pathet Lao” Para. 16) The United States and Hmongs involvement in this are now what is known as the Secret War, for it was kept a secret by the United States government.

Introduction In the early 1960’s, the United States had sent combat troops to South Vietnam for the purpose of defending South Vietnam against the communist North Vietnam and to spread Democracy. The Vietnamese War was the longest war in the history of the United States and it costed 58,000 American lives, as well as almost two million Vietnamese deaths. According to the digital history article, the war, among others, damaged the economy, weakened the military morale, and brought distrust in the government. It was also estimated that 830,000 veterans suffered from PTSD, of which almost half of them were deeply affected to the point of being labeled disabled.

The Vietnam war was one of many crusades the United States carried throughout the 20th century, the Cold War era. The domino theory was one of many terms used in this stage of political hostility where if a nation falls under the communist regime, the rest of its neighboring countries would undergo the same events. Although the war gained immense publicity, it was also victorious in achieving the objection of many through its atrocities. In the book, If I Die in a Combat Zone, the author Tim O’Brien transmitted to the reader his personal experiences and beliefs during his recruitment in the Vietnam war by communicating the cruel, lethal circumstances servicemen encountered, exposing the intrusion on Vietnamese civilian lives and property, and

Vietnam was a controversial War. People either agreed with it or opposed it. As tensions grew in the U.S, the American soldiers faced the horror of war. An experience filled with terror and suffering, but also filled with brotherhood. American literature has shown the struggles of the soldiers in the Vietnam War.

In this story, O’Brien paints a highly conventionalized version of Vietnam as a world that deeply affects the foreign Americans who live in it. He outlines a strong difference between the native world of Vietnam and the world of the Americans. Mary Anne Bell fully embraces Vietnamese culture, while Mark Fossie ignores it. The difference between their experiences sets up a world in which the separate cultures are completely foreign to, and incompatible with each other. O’Brien does not suggest that one can assimilate elements of each culture into a comfortable mix.

Conclusion The U.S.’s involvement in the Vietnam War led to the revolutionary change of American society in how they chose to view their country’s government and how they choose to abide by its wishes. The war created an entire new movement of young adults who weren’t afraid to question what they viewed as injustice; they stood for peace and love, and protested for it. Draft evasion showed that the American people didn’t have to fight for a war that they didn’t believe in. The revelation of the Pentagon Papers showed that citizens had a right to know what their country was doing.

The Vietnam War is the first and only war that the United States has lost. The Vietnam War was a 20 year conflict in the mid to late 1900s between communist northern Vietnam and southern Vietnam, who had the help of the United States. The US military sent over 2.5 million soldiers to Vietnam with 60,000 casualties, 150,000 wounded, and most of the soldiers leaving with mental illnesses. Tim O’Brien was one of these soldiers and he tells the story of him and his friends during the Vietnam War in the book The Things We Carry. This book explores the tangible and intangible things that soldiers carry throughout war, and the effects on the soldiers after war.

The choice of having the entire story being told with the main character being Adrian Cronauer (played by Robin Williams) was deliberate to add comedy into the film which is focused on more than in documentaries or war epics. But the movie retained historical authenticity in all of the events but not through the characters which were used to show the experiences and how they happened. The entire film is a learning experience for Cronauer where his character develops from being a care-free radio personality to being discharged from the army under suspicion of being an affiliate with the Viet Cong and him fully understanding the way the American influence in Vietnam is hurting its populous. When Cronauer rediscovers his need to