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This 5 page paper argues that no one who went to Vietnam in any capacity remained unchanged by the experience. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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has become a turning point in American history, and a "touchstone" or talisman: every conflict since has been evaluated in the light of the Vietnam experience. Its particularly
relevant now, as fears grow that the current American invasion and occupation of Iraq is turning into just such another quagmire. This paper argues that it is impossible
for anyone who was directly involved in Vietnam to have emerged from the conflict unchanged. The basis for that thesis is found in three books: Philip Caputos A Rumor
of War, Graham Greenes The Quiet American, and to a lesser extent George Herrings textbook, Americas Longest War. Discussion Of the three books, the most compelling is Caputos account, because
it is a first-person narrative of his experiences in Vietnam. He speaks with the same authenticity as authors like Tim OBrien (The Things They Carried) because he was there.
He is also authentic because his story mirrors so many others: he was a decent young man who went to Vietnam because he thought it was the right thing
to do, and what he found was not a "just war" or a noble cause, but a stinking slaughterhouse in which morals quickly corrupted, common sense fled, and only meaningless
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day he was ordered to put
four Viet Cong corpses on display so new troops could get used to the sight of blood; having done that, he sent them off for burial, only to have to
haul them back again to display them to a U.S. general (Caputo, 1996). The sheer madness of this act, its ultimate pointlessness, as well as the description of the
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