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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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)