Vietnam

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however, the burden of the war fell mainly on the civilians.1
On January 27, in Paris, delegations representing the United States,
South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Provisional Revolutionary
Communist Government of South Vietnam signed an Agreement on Ending
the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam. The cease-fire officially went into
effect on January 28. Both the US and North Vietnam asserted that there
were no secret peace terms.2
All the US fighting forces had withdrawn from Vietnam by March
1973, but not without major losses on both sides. Two million Vietnamese
were killed and 3 million were wounded. The extensive use of napalm and
defoliants (such as Agent Orange) left many people badly burned, and
destroyed the ecology of a country that was mainly agricultural.
This is an important part of US history because it was the first war in
which there was no clear winner. 57,685 US soldiers were killed, and triple
that amount were wounded. Even those who returned to ...

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the tracks of a snail.”3 It really gave me
a feel for what they were going through. It made me wonder how they didn’t
just not fight. The war wasn’t theirs, but due to bad luck they were stuck
in this horrible jungle forced to fight an enemy they had no reason to hate.
Living like animals with practically no food and little or no contact with
Their families. Under the same conditions I think I would sit under a tree and
wait it out.
While finishing the book, I remembered a discussion we had in class
about whether or not the soldiers were considered as individuals. Guidry
explained how military thought of them:
“ To them we were just parts of the machine, no
different from ...

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