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A 9 page paper which examines the patriotic loyalty, preparing for combat, the dehumanization caused by constant killing, and the psychological scars that remained on the American and Vietnamese combatants that managed to physically survive the war. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGvietman.rtf
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The Vietnam War, which lasted approximately from 1965 (although many U.S. advisors had already been installed in Southeast Asia prior to the military escalation in 1965) until a ceasefire
in 1973, would grow increasingly unpopular during the passage of time, especially as images of wartime casualties and atrocities were replayed in graphic detail every night on the evening news.
When nations are engaged in combat, the effects on both sides of the battle zone are many and last far beyond the war itself. None of the men,
women, and children that were directly involved in the war as soldiers or indirectly by inhabiting the villages caught in the crossfire would ever be the same. Surprisingly, the
tales the Americans and Vietnamese told would be strikingly similar, particularly in terms of the patriotic loyalty, combat preparation, dehumanizing effects, and lingering psychological scars of the war. University of
Kentucky Professor George C. Herring is perhaps the foremost expert on the Vietnam War and the ominous legacy it left behind. Author of Americas Longest War, which has often
been referred to by scholars as the definitive Vietnam War text, Professor Herring bluntly described the war being not only a tragedy of military proportions but also a national fiasco
of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were united in the belief that protecting the Republic of South Vietnam from the Ho Chi Minhs North Vietnamese
Communists was a necessary Cold War ideological crusade. The federal governments refusal to accept anything but unconditional victory sowed the seeds of what was, in 1973, considered the most
embarrassing defeat in U.S. combat history. In March of 1965, an impressionable young lieutenant named Philip Caputo arrived in Da Nang as a member of the First Battalion Marine Regiment.
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