Vietnam Veteran

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is condemned to the small circle of s and the few that talk to or read the stories they so painfully tell. Never would you find a personal account of this magnitude and detail in your general history text or even find any quotes from the thousands of GI's stationed in Vietnam. In fact most Americans haven't and never will hear these detailed, factual, and straightforward tales that depict what over 400,000 American soldiers and Vietnamese have personally witnessed, felt, and encountered in a country so far away. In the American curriculum, students instead receive a very watered down, dehumanized, and impersonal account of one of the most controversial times in American history. A history where feelings are replaced by dates, human casualties are replaced by statistics, and stories by the soldiers that gave their lives are summarized into general events and mass-produced summarizations.
Having talked to numerous veterans of the Vietnam Conflict and read multiple ...

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Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia to fight along side the Viet Cong. In an attempt to clear the countryside, U.S. forces and the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) initiated the tactics called "search and destroy," "free fire zones" and "pacification." They also regularly bombed military and civilian targets in the north and supply dumps in Cambodia.
Words and phrases such as "armed attack," "bombing raids" and "sent...to participate" replace the much harsher words used by the GIs which express the worldly chaos which they were forced to experience. They were thrown into a situation created by others for reasons they did not fully comprehend, forced to bear witness to some of the most ...

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