silence kills
"Okay class," an authorative voice sounds out, "today we are going to talk about the Vietnam War." A sea of dumbfounded faces stare the teacher down. "Does anyone know anything about the Vietnam War?" the voice continued to ask. The sea of faces is motionless, no true sign of coherence or understanding of the teacher's words. A hand is slowly raised and then called upon. "That's when Pearl Harbor was bombed, wasn't it?" answers an anonymous student. "Yeah, Yeah," voices out another student without raising a hand, "D-day was part of Vietnam too," only vaguely knowing of what D-day is. "No, No," comes a voice from the back of the class, "That's all from World War 2." A nod of agreement is shown by the teacher. "I know about Vietnam," continues the student, "I saw a movie on it. I think it was called Full Metal Jacket." Today's students and young adults do not have the knowledge of the years that the Vietnam Conflict occupied. Stories of what happened in the United States during that time are common and plentiful, however those stories of what actually happened over seas, in the trenches, in the fields are not. Students are forced to learn of these times through reading regular classroom hist
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Random House, 1990.
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Approximate Word count = 1137
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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