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It is well-documented that the Vietnam war left many veterans in a deterioriated mental condition. But what is less frequently discussed is the depressed lifestyles of children -- those born of American soldiers who had sex with Vietnam women as rape or otherwise. Many of these children live in the United States today.. Some have even attempted to find their fathers.. The behavior patterns of these youths reflects their war torn heritage and this 6 page essay examines this concept as well as its effects on the parent - veteran (i.e., post-traumatic stress disorder, etc.;). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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which participant were brutally tortured, slaughtered, and made to fight a new kind of battle: guerrilla warfare. It was this medium of fight that would crush not only the
gung-ho American "win" attitude, but would also ruin the mental & emotional stability of soldiers. We have heard stories of Vietnam veterans who suffer from a wide-range of problems
from missing limbs to traumatic memories that cause random "flashbacks" and terrible emotional pain (Kindall A06). If the war had such impact on adults, one can only being to
imagine the depth of psycho-emotional scars that young children must have endured growing up during the war era. Aside from the indirect, many abuses were obvious.
American soldiers often beat and raped Vietnamese women and children. Those that came to the United States were treated as though they were less-than-human; nothing more than barbaric
creatures of a Third World country that the U.S. was at war with. Many such children were displaced-- some came from motherless or fatherless families. Others were the
products of war rape. These children of the Vietnam War often grew up to be torn, hellified products of hate, greed, and irresponsibility. In the
story "Fathering," one such child is depicted. Eng was most likely-- although not even definitely-- the daughter of an American Vietnamese veteran. Her grandmother had been killed by
U.S. soldiers (quite possibly by her father) during the war and she was left to fend for herself. But in more recent years, her father had found out about
her whereabouts in Nam and brought her to the U.S. to stay with his family. Here, Eng was a typical displaced Vietnamese "war baby." She did not want
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