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This 3 page paper describes U.S. involvement in Vietnam and argues that we should never have been there. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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had no business involving itself in the Vietnamese war. Discussion The source for this paper is an article written by a G.I. who was there. In his effort to understand
the war, he has done a great deal of research about it, much of it centering on how the conflict started and why. He also notes that what he was
being told by his superiors didnt add up to what he was seeing while he was on patrol (Drake, 1993). He undertook to write his paper because like many returning
veterans, he had nightmares and other episodes indicative of post-traumatic stress disorder; he thought that perhaps if he found out the facts behind the U.S. presence in Vietnam, it would
help him (Drake, 1993). As it turns out, it did help him, but it also uncovered a lot of facts that indicate the U.S. had no business in Vietnam. If
the soldiers were asked why they were in Vietnam, many could not answer with clarity because they simply didnt know. Some of them believed they were there to stop Communist
aggression, others that they were there because the Vietnamese government had asked for U.S. help; neither is true (Drake, 1993). The history of Vietnam is a troubled one, with war
one of its main themes. But U.S. involvement there really begins with the French in Indochina (Drake, 1993). The French had colonized most of the south and struggled to bring
the rest of the country under their control (Drake, 1993). Their repressive regime led a young man named Ho Chi Minh to join the Communist party and work for their
ouster (Drake, 1993). During World War II, the Japanese invaded Vietnam and worked with the French to rule the country; at the end of the war it reverted to French
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