Vietnam People's Army

facts concerning this battle. The 29th of January 1968 was the beginning of Battle of Bien Hoa when the Bien Hoa Air Base went under attack. On 31 January the first Tet Offensive began by the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam in order to shift the invading army and regain control by the Vietnamese. A total of 39 encounters were recorded in this battle fought by brave Soldiers from the 17th Calvary, the 11th Armored

while the Vietnam war was going on. The CIA, General Vang Pao, American troops and the Hmong veterans were fighting against the Lao communist and the Vietnamese soldiers. The Lao communist government structurally declared genocide on the Hmong. They came to every Hmong village that thought supported the Americans. The communist slaughtered, burned, and raped the Hmongs. The war was kept secret by the American Government because the CIA didn’t have permission to go to Laos, but Vietnam. Reason why

war. Both Bloods, Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An oral

This movie about the Vietnam War showed not only the defeat of the U.S. in a war but it also showed the destruction of the moral of soldiers. The Soldiers knew in their minds that the enemy was the North Vietnamese Army however; they acted like the enemy was themselves. The first part of the movie that I see showed the soldiers looking for their friend. When they find him he is impaled on a tree, a mass of blood leaks from his body, and I can feel the hatred that the soldiers in the movie start to

the family’s houses, typically the groom’s family. Once the marriage has been official, the bride and groom will move to a new home. When death comes, the deceased is preserved, dressed in white clothes, and put in a casket in a funeral home. In Vietnam, once the funeral concludes, the casket is lifted to a certain cemetery for burial by a procession of close relatives on foot, no matter the distance. (The procession sometimes blocks roads). The departed is now revered by his or her descendants and

The Sorrow of War and The Deer Hunter are a novel and a movie about the Vietnam War. The novel is written by a North Vietnamese soldier named Bao Ninh while the movie takes on the American perspective of the war. Below, there will be an analysis of the differences and similarities between the novel and the movie. For organizational purposes, the novel and then the movie will be summarized. Then, based on the summary, the similarities and differences between the novel and the movie will be pinpointed

his love for her and the pain of knowing she would never return his love. Martha had sent him a pebble from the Jersey shoreline. Lt. Cross carried it in his mouth while humping and pretended that he was back with Martha at college instead of in Vietnam. He sat wondering if she was a virgin while Lee Strunk crawled through an underground tunnel, and a Viet Cong sniper shot Ted Lavender. The next morning Jimmy Cross burnt Martha’s picture and her letters, but the guilt remained. He resolved to stop

Prisoners received everything from torture to execution. However, in recent times efforts have been made to reduce these treatments and to get humane treatment for POWs. These attempts include the Geneva Convention of 1949. Unfortunately, during the Vietnam Conflict, these “rules” of war were not always obeyed, as they are now.

It can be hard to fully comprehend the effects the Vietnam War had on not just the veterans, but the nation as a whole. The violent battles and acts of war became all too common during the long years of the conflict. The war warped the soldiers and civilians characters and desensitized their mentalities to the cruelty seen on the battlefield. Bao Ninh and Tim O’Brien, both veterans of the war, narrate their experiences of the war and use the loss of love as a metaphor for the detrimental effects

around what happen to the Vietnam people after the Vietnam war and their struggles to migrate to other countries. This seemed to be a very interesting topic to cover to know where are they now and how they feel about the war. Located a woman in her late 40s from Vietnam, her family has migrated to American when she was just 5 years old. This topic seemed to be very sensitive for her to talk about, I brought to much pain to talk about her parents that didn't survive the Vietnam war. After this failed