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A 5 page paper comparing Jacqueline Navarra Rhoads’ essay on nursing in Vietnam to General George Patton’s speech to the Third Army on June 5, 1944. Patton’s love of war may have been hard pressed to persist had he seen Vietnam, and particularly had he seen it in the way that Rhoads did. The simple description of what had become normal life is enough to negate Patton’s perceptions and his speech to the Third Army. With Vietnam, Patton’s views became anachronistic and a part of the past. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSwarVietPat.rtf
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General George Patton was known for his unique ability to combine eloquence and vulgarity, particularly when the subject was his favorite, war. Patton was a student of military
endeavors throughout history, and the fact of being involved as a leader in a world war was thrilling for him. As a general
in 1944, Patton had not been able to rise to his position without serving in much lower-ranking roles. He was not a leader who knew nothing of what he
spoke about, yet he glorified war and all the activities and conditions associated with it. Jacqueline Navarra Rhoads served her country as well,
though in a much different time and in a much different setting. She also had to deal with attitudes at home that never before had existed in conjunction with
any American war effort. It was the US "non-war," the interminable police action that cost thousands of lives and national self respect. Her account of Vietnam is much
different in character and tone than is General Pattons urgings to the Third Army in 1944. Rhoads Account
Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical personnel lived in the Vietnam
era and in Vietnam. Not all the patients at the facility were US or even Allied soldiers. They also included babies of local Vietnamese citizens, who were bewildered
that their homes could be the center of such violence. Simple people, hardworking and generally illiterate, they wished only for the soldiers to leave, to leave them in peace
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