It described the event as something odd, something alien to American history. I could see that the author was trying to damp the shock. He tried to keep his tone as flat as possible, while adding some slight humor as he made the comparisons between how American was preparing for its Bicentennial of independence and how it was in Southern Vietnam. And, to my own surprise, each time he mentioned the situation of the ARVN, I kept looked up at the image, instinctively, and felt sorry for them. For me once, they were only “puppets” of Nixon.
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Armed with this knowledge, the trusted broadcast journalist decided to air grim editorial detailing his own impressions of the war in Vietnam" (pg 120, 121) When he did this editorial his understanding of the war got the public to feel they were being lied to because they had believed we were winning. Even President Richard Nixon believed that the television was something harmful to Americans. In 1971, Nixon even stated that "aside from the communists, our worse enemy seems to be the press." With this understand we
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Many American citizens in 1959 viewed the Vietnam War as a righteous battle against communism, similar to the Iraq War today however now many view this war as a necessary battle against terrorism. Looking at America's overall goal in Vietnam, it is evident that we did not come close to keeping South Vietnam from collapsing, who fell to communist rule in 1975 (Frankum 210). America's involvement in the conflicts of Vietnam and Iraq were so discordant that our government, people, and military were constricted. Yet both wars were fought with the knowledge that America may change the invaded nation, which brings a precarious question; what makes the government believe that they have the right to go into a country and change it to the way they
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