Year 10 history assessment task-Vietnam war Assess the impact of the Vietnam War on the Vietnam veterans and their families. The impact of the Vietnam War on the Vietnam veterans and their families were impacted in a negative way. The soldiers who took part in the Vietnam War were affected and had been very unpopular. The soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War were not properly welcomed back to their homes. Many of the veterans felt like they were being responsible for the war instead of the government.
* More facts: Average age is 22.8 years old. * about 70 names which are duplicates or misspellings * * * The Three Soldiers: * The Three Servicemen statue is the result of the controversy surrounding Maya Ying Lin's design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Some veterans and their political supporters felt that The Wall was "a black gash of shame" or a "giant tombstone." It was too abstract a design for others who wanted a more heroic, life-like depiction of a soldier. Frederick Hart Began July 1982, VVMF.
A common theme arises in the letter arises in a sense of “Why Am I Here?” as America starts to question “Why are we fighting the war?” Neither knows what the purpose of the war is and those who fought in it question why it has to be them. Many of the combatants seek comfort in believing they are fighting the war for the future of the children of Vietnam. This is mainly influenced by their guilt in feeling responsible for the death of their parents. Despite the differences of situations between the large conservative body of America and the soldiers of Vietnam, they did share the same opinion or uncertainty of the purpose of the
In a CBS special, Cronkite concluded, "To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past, to say we are mired in a bloody stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory conclusion" ( Hallin, 1986, p.170) This did not help increase the support for our troops in Vietnam. The overall support for the war was diminished by Cronkite's report. The negative coverage of the war influenced politicians, the public, and the American soldier. Concerned with losing support, politicians started to really get involved. The TeT offensive was a last ditch effort for the communists.
Vietnam was only the second war to feature desegregated units, having followed the Korean War of the 1950s (Armstrong). The new challenges that soldiers faced led to an inevitable division between races. Fragging was a common way for soldiers to deal with these problems. Unable to take the orders or policies of their superior officers, many resorted to murdering them. Many of the problems that soldiers had with their commanders stemmed from race, where barriers existed regardless of the beliefs a person had.
The mission of the Hall of Honor is to collect and preserve the stories of Purple Heart recipients from all branches of service and across generations to ensure that all recipients are represented.” (National Purple Heart Hall of Honor) The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is the only in the nation that commiserates the 1.7 million recipients of the award. The museum opened on 7 August 2007, near the site where, 225 years previously General George Washington had first established the award. Currently, over 165,000 military members are enrolled in the hall. The members are on the Roll of Honor, and the personnel on the roster is anyone that has been wounded or killed under meritorious actions after 5 April
There are two other observations that can be taken from this that support the idea of women’s high importance in this era. One being that the Homo sapiens took a skill, carving stone, they had primarily used for making tools and weapons which they used for their survival as a hunter-gather, and they utilized it to make small sculptures, which were very detailed in its time. The second observation is “female figurines vastly outnumbered representations of males in the Paleolithic era” (Sayre 6). It is not clear if one woman held any power over an entire tribe, but what is clear is that Homo sapiens made a conscious effort to immortalize the essence of women with its artwork. The men may have even felt women
Millions of people lost their jobs during these tragic times, and left their homes in pursuit of securing work, but most fell short. As a result, many found themselves homeless and struggling for survival. Tom Kromer, who was twenty-three years old at the time, published a book in 1935 titled “Waiting for Nothing”, wherein he gave descriptive accounts of the cruel conditions
The Post War Life The effect of the Vietnam War on the surviving soldiers The Vietnam War left a great scar in all the people that were directly and indirectly involved in it. Among the affected were the soldiers that not only died in the war, but also survived it. The war destroyed them physically and mentally to a point that it felt as if the war continued throughout the remainder of their lives. The feeling of trauma, hatred toward the War, and grief are well portrayed in Yusef Komunyakaa’s Roll Call, and W. D. Ehrhart’s Invasion of Grenada. The authors of these poems strived to provide a first-hand experience with the purpose of proving that even though one survives the war, the same war never leaves.
The Vietnam War affected millions of veterans and showed the United States that even though they had the most powerful and best military in the world they could still lose a war. Many veterans all across the United States came back from the war with hatred and psychological problems. America’s society had changed after the war, people were not willing to go to war any more and America as a society saw the tragedies that occurred in