The images that were broadcasted all over America did not please the public and before long riots and protests were being held in the streets to end the war. This was because hundreds of American soldiers had died in a war they thought was coming to an end. The Tet Offensive proved otherwise and caused a major disagreement between the public and the American government. Many people believe that this almost forced the government to end the war because without the moral support from their own country there would be no chance in another. On the other hand, the Americans actually won the fight and in doing so managed to kill thousands of Vietcong’s, unmasked Vietcong’s, which they had not been able to do very well until this point.
Rheumatic fever left Dean with a heart condition, resulting in frequent absence from school, and he seemed to welcome the change when his mother remarried, moving the family to Texas. A part-time business making candy soon expanded to become their livelihood, and Corll was generous with samples as he sought to win new friends. Corll was drafted into the United States Army on 10 August 1964, and assigned to Fort Polk, Louisiana for basic training. He was later assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia, before his permanent assignment at Fort Hood, Texas as a radio repairman. Corll reportedly hated military service; he applied for a hardship discharge on the grounds that he was needed within his family's business (Candy Shop).
After the first game, Max told his parent “it was awesome, I hit someone, and I killed a person.” It is look like nothing happen when Max said and his parent never say anything. She got surprise from that. A lot of people I know love it; in fact they play it as is possible for them. Paintball give them the feeling of being soldier in a way. They have to shoot people from the opposite team, hide in the bushes or in the woods and look for safety behind barrels or houses.
When the war started many American people was against it and want this to end son as possible. They were against it because United States didn´t have any trade with Vietnam or something like that. Many people give their opinions about the war in Vietnam. In the next paragraphs I am going to talk about two American groups fell about the war, the two groups are the American public and the soldiers. The first group the American public at the beginning of the war agreed with the fact that Us was helping South Vietnam, this because the president of the united States in this year told the people that they need to go to war and they have to go even if they don´t like the idea.
Throughout the course of the Great War, the production and circulation of all forms of media, both audio and visual, and all forms of literature and poetry were heavily censored by the governments of all the nations involved in the war. The reason behind this censorship was to keep up the moral at the home front. For obvious reasons, which will be discussed throughout this essay, the government did not want the general public seeing and hearing the true accounts of the war. As well as censorship being used to keep up morale, propaganda was a key feature of keeping p support for the armies fighting in the war. By examining the various forms of media and literature that were produced during the period of the Great War the extent to which censorship and propaganda will become clearly evident.
In comparing the seventies era with the present ; I have come to recognize similarities between events of today and the proceedings that occurred almost 40 years ago, both having impacted our nation . The Vietnam War, like the Iraq war, dragged on longer than expected. Because of this, the people within our country became polarized with extreme positions that ultimately divided our national focus. During the 2000‘s, many U.S. citizens expressed their opposition to the war in Iraq. Likewise this sentiment was shared by many politicians and political activist during the Vietnam War era, like the presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and singer/songwriter John Dylan.
When I was eight years old my dad and Ms. Terri got a divorce. I was very upset at first because I thought I wasn’t going to get to see Ms. Terri anymore. I was so thankful my mom and dad realized how much I loved Ms. Terri and how much she loved me that they still let me see her. She would still come to all of my sports practices, school activities and I got to go spend the night with her on the weekends. Right after I turned nine years old, my dad was killed in a car accident.
At this time, my best friend was quitting her job at an in-home daycare in which my aunt owned and operated. I call this woman my aunt since she and her husband have been really good friends with my father since I could remember. My best friend had found another job so she asked me to take her place as a day-care assistant. I figured if I took her place, it would be a great experience and it would look good on my resume. I have always wanted to have a job where kids were involved.
I was impressed because she worked full-time, yet found time for another job, that she had as a part-time. Sometimes at night time, when she was finally coming home, she would leave again to help her husband who was cleaning doctors’ offices at night time, also as a second job. But there is more, she was also extremely active in helping her son and daughter with raising her grandchildren by taking them to their extracurricular classes and having them over for every weekend. Later, I realized that this was just a small piece of what she did, she was always putting an effort on learning something: a guitar playing, insurance broker, accounting, and I am sure there is more that I am not aware of from before. It seemed as long as she would learn and make everyone to wonder, when she came over to me and offered to get into a course for the next three years, well that is how I overcome my self-conscience and went for a part-time into the college and got my Practical Nursing Diploma in a first place and now I look forward to completing my Nursing Degree.
This evidence shows that the way people saw the war was changing. The people didn’t want to see their husbands, kids, friends, or their neighbors fighting in such a horrifying war. The media coverage changed the way people saw the war because it made them realize that there were thousands of Americans dying overseas in a war that they didn’t need to be involved in. The Vietnam changed people’s view about the war, “The Vietnam War was the most extensively covered war in history. This coverage was thought to have had a powerful influence on public opinion and therefore on political decision making”.