What Was the Legacy of the Vietnam War
In my opinion the Vietnam War was a terrible experience for both of the fighting sides. In this war both of the fighting sides lost huge amounts of troops, warfare, and civilian lives. The ideas and beliefs of people around the world about the Vietnam War are very different because of the controversy over this issue. The Vietnam War brought the United States shame and disgrace in the eyes of the outside world and the citizens of United States. The Vietnam War is a stain on the United States history. This stain still remains on the American flag after twenty-five years. Perhaps the greatest impact of the Vietnam War was left on the American citizen. Many of these citizens had shown their strong emotions against the war from the very beginning. The National Guard shootings in the Kent State diseaster is an example of how most people felt about the Vietnam War. There was a sense of distrust between the government and the people. The actions and the orders made by the government were mostly against the public's opinion and this caused a great sense of hostility and distrust towards the American government by its people. The Vietnam War was a product of the American culture. As Colonel Zeb B. Bradford said:
The Vietnam War drastically changed the course of American History. The American policies on foreign affairs, domestic politics, and cultural and social history were greatly changed by this event. I think that after the Vietnam war the approach of the United States to other countries changed. The United States policy became less involved in some of the international matters and I believe that this is due to better understanding of the different cultures. These people fought for months and years in the swamps and rice paddies of Vietnam. They had to fight in conditions unknown and certainly uncomfortable to them, and worst of all these soldiers had to face the battles each day. "The landscape doesn't change much. For days and days you see just about nothing. It's unfamiliar-always unfamiliar. Even when you go back to the same place, it's unfamiliar. And it makes you feel as though, well, there's nothing left in the world but this." (Page 36, Home From the War). Surviving in these conditions and seeing several dead bodies each day (sometimes knowing who the bodies belonged to) was awfully harsh for these nineteen, twenty year olds. One of the groups who are affected the most by the Vietnam War are the veterans who fought in the war. Upon returning from Vietnam American soldiers received a cold welcome from the public. It stemmed from a deep hatred felt by many Americans for the war and the way it ended. This made many veterans feel alienated. For more than a century the United States has been playing a peacemaker in the western countri
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