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"The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power." Post-Vietnam blues, as quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975--Wealthy White Politican Henry Kissinger | "The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power." Post-Vietnam blues, as quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975--Wealthy White Politican Henry Kissinger | ||
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| + | "So many minority youths had volunteered that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself." --Tom DeLay, explaining at the 1988 GOP convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War | ||
This movie has a very strange passage of time. It quickly zooms to the Vietnam war without any transition period covering training or the green zone. The movie does not really go into any real depth of experience in the Vietnam war and only focuses on a couple instances of traumatic war experience followed by a stay at a hospital. The way they condemn the hospitals particularly bothers me in relation to the discussion of our lecture in which it was discussed that Vietnam had a large support staff and better health treatment for soldiers. - Jonathan Bell | This movie has a very strange passage of time. It quickly zooms to the Vietnam war without any transition period covering training or the green zone. The movie does not really go into any real depth of experience in the Vietnam war and only focuses on a couple instances of traumatic war experience followed by a stay at a hospital. The way they condemn the hospitals particularly bothers me in relation to the discussion of our lecture in which it was discussed that Vietnam had a large support staff and better health treatment for soldiers. - Jonathan Bell | ||
