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Editorial
Excerpt from an editorial about the Vietnam War Broadcast on CBS Television, February 27, 1968 It is generally agreed that American media coverage of the Vietnam War had a major impact on public attitudes toward the...
200118 pages
Excerpt
Excerpt from the "Silent Majority" speech Delivered on national television, November 24, 1969 "And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support." By the time Richard M....
200118 pages
Excerpt
Excerpt from a letter to the editor of the American magazine Minority of One Published in the May 1964 issue "The Vietnamese people thank the workers', youth, students', and women's organizations, as well as...
200116 pages
Speech
Excerpt from a speech on the Vietnam War Delivered on February 8, 1968 "Reality is grim and painful. But it is only a remote echo of the anguish toward which a policy [U.S. military policy in Vietnam] founded on...
200113 pages
Excerpt
Letter left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, July 20, 1985 Published in Shrapnel in the Heart, edited by Laura Palmer, 1987 "I learned that the pain and loss never goes away. It just changes." When American...
200119 pages
Excerpt
Excerpt from a statement about his experiences as a refugee, 1975–76 Published in Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives, edited by James Freeman, 1989 "When we set out on our journey, we had no idea what would...
200113 pages
Excerpt
Excerpt from an interview about her experiences in Vietnam, 1972–75 Published in Kathryn Marshall's In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1987 "I'm sure things are desperately poor [in...
200118 pages
Excerpt
Excerpt from an account of his experiences as a prisoner of war Published in In Love and War by James and Sybil Stockdale, 1984 "I wrote the papers, and I signed them. But I made them beat it out of me. I felt like...
200118 pages
Excerpt
Excerpt from a memoir of his experiences in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine, 1965 Published in his book A Rumor of War, 1977 "Everything rotted and corroded there [in Vietnam]: bodies, boot leather, canvas, metal, morals....
200114 pages
Excerpt
Excerpt from her memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places Published in 1989 "I had a terrible dream of ghosts floating through the village and into our house and into my mouth and nose and I couldn't breathe. I...
200118 pages
Speech
Excerpt from his antiwar speech "Beyond Vietnam" Delivered April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City "[The world] demands that we admit that we have been wrong from the beginning of our adventure in...
20013 pages
Topic overview
1310LThe Vietnam War was a brutal and bloody conflict that took the lives of more than fifty-eight thousand American soldiers and an estimated two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. In addition, air bombings, mortar...
20012 pages
Topic overview, Brie...
1150LLong before American soldiers arrived in Vietnam in the 1960s, the Vietnamese people had endured centuries of violent struggle for control of their country. The most recent of these struggles took place from 1946 to...
200118 pages
Excerpt
Excerpt from his story "On the Rainy River" Published in The Things They Carried, 1990 "I feared the war, yes, but I also feared exile. I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and my family, my...
200117 pages
Excerpt
Excerpt from his essay "Tragedy at Kent" Published in Middle of the Country, edited by Bill Warren, 1970 "This is a "national tragedy," one that will, when history is written, be one of the hallmarks of a leadership...
20013 pages
Topic overview
1120LIn January of 1973 the Paris Accords were signed and the United States withdrew its military forces from Vietnam. Two years later, North Vietnamese troops captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon to end the war....
20014 pages
Topic overview
1200LU.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War increased dramatically during the 1960s and remained significant until 1973, when American forces were finally withdrawn from the conflict. In the early years of U.S. military...
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