Vietnam2
American intervention in Vietnam began with a generation of boys born to the veterans of the second World War. Boys who lived in the afterglow and dreamed of the glory. Patriotism was thick in a country who came out of the second great war stronger than it had entered. We were unbeatable. America had survived to continue it's fight against injustice and for liberty. The new fight was against communism. The war might never have taken place had the United States aided Ho Chi Minh in the fight to liberate Vietnam from the French, a fight the Americans had experienced themselves not all that long ago. In light of France being an ally the United Stated did not see their way clear to assist a colony from French Philip Caputo's book, "A Rumor of War" is full of painful honesty about the fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. The boys from working class families were doing the fighting and the dying in a land ten thousand miles from home. Caputo speaks of a nation divided in it's opinion on the war and the soldiers who fought in Born on the Fourth of July tells the story of the return of a Vietnam veteran. The country the vetera
Initial support for the war quickly waned as it There are still differing opinions about US world after Vietnam were forever changed. The nation had gone into the war a super-power and had failed. The book and the film both reach the same
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