The Vietnam War, was not even a war, it was a "Police Action". The young men who fought for their country had other views of what it was. This war showed how power hungry the U.S. was to influence the world. I thought the Vietnam War was a serious misallocation of troops, money, resources and time. The Vietnam War was a perfect platform for the U.S. to show the world how belligerent we were to stop the spread of communism. Some observers in the United States questioned the administration's policy. For example, a leading newspaper writer, James Reston, said President Johnson was carrying out an undeclared and unexplained war in Vietnam. Johnson defended his policies. He said withdrawl [sic] would not bring an end to the conflict. He said the battle would continue in one country, and then another (FAS Military Analysis Network).

The Vietnam War started at the end of WWII. The Kennedy administration started the involvement with the Green Berets. The War at one point had reached over 500,000 troops fighting in Vietnam. In return 58,000 young, 19-25 years of age, American troops died for the cause of stopping communism.

Some of the attitudes of the War were both pr

The movie Platoon was the most realistic, true account of how a soldier felt and how he wanted to go back how when he first got to Vietnam, And when his tour was ending, he didn't have a care in the world if he went home or not. At the end of the movie Chris, Charlie Sheen, is riding in a helicopter thinking about the war in general. The war will always be there the rest of my days (Platoon). He means that he will have this scar of a memory for the rest of his life, and all for what good?

Against the celebrated and glorious backdrop of American history, the Vietnam War stands ghastly out of place. The war was an exercise in economic, military, and political futility. The greatest tragedy of the Vietnam War, however, stems from the unnecessary deaths of 58,000 young American boys and the installment of terror, mistrust, and sorrow in those who found a way to survive in an inferno where the laws of man were obsolete. Most of these soldiers were 19 years old. They wanted to be shooting .22's at rabbits, instead of M16's at other human beings. In all, the Vietnam War was a military conflict that mankind should have never seen.

Another great example of why and how the Vietnam war was so terrible are through the movies that came out about the war. Some of these movies depicted the symbolisms of what war was like to Americans and GI's.

These Young Americans showed their rebellion of the war. These Young Americans burned flags and also burned their draft cards, which was a federal crime to do so. These so called draft dodgers held great demonstrations, and they had great reasons to do so. The music of the time also reflected the views of the war.

Westmoreland and Johnson should have fig

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