Q. I'm doing interviews about the Vietnam War. Answers based on your personal life would be greatly appreciated! What was the your community's opinion on the war and how did your family feel about the war. Would you say the war profoundly affected your life and why? Did you notice a change in media during/after the war? Where were you during the war? This is completely anonymous and thanks to anyone who answered.
Thank you to everyone who answered!
Thank you to everyone who answered!
A. I was in Vietnam at the end of the war after most American troops had gone home. Having been at just about every anti-war protest in Washington D.C. from 1969 (when I got my driver's license and could cut school to go) to 1971, I finally got over there in 1973 and began doing relief work in hospitals, schools, and orphanages. It was the most profound experience of my life. Every single day, I discovered that nothing was as black-and-white as I had thought, not politics, not social change, not even war. What moved me most was the kindness and generosity of the Vietnamese people I met. There they were, so many of them displaced, destitute, and exhausted by a quarter-century of war, much of it sponsored by people with my white face and egregious ignorance, yet they could not have been more open-hearted. Researchers who claim that our species is hard-wired for aggression and retribution need to spend more time with such people.
By the time I returned to the U.S., late in the summer of 1974, Vietnam was really off the public radar. It seemed to me that, once the tide of public opinion turned against the war in 1971, media attention began drifting away. It would snap back at moments of crisis (and dramatic newsreel footage), such as the fall of Saigon in 1975, but I couldn't help noticing that most people just seemed to want to forget the whole mess, to the great detriment of the veterans who needed--and deserved--recognition, assistance, and gratitude.
On the personal level, the war divided my family the way it divided the country. According to my antiwar-protester friends, my father was a war-mongering imperialist whose government work implicated him in murder, exploitation, and oppression of the most heinous kind; he might as well have personally poured napalm on the helpless bodies of infants after slaughtering their mothers as work where he did. Yet I knew him to be an honorable man who cared deeply about human suffering, and I knew a lot of my protester friends to be more interested in getting high, getting laid, and scrapping with police than in helping anyone. So I felt really torn. I could see that my father's position was logical, once you grant the legitimacy of "balance-of-power politics." And I could see the logical self-contradiction of a "movement," in which we were supposed to be forging an egalitarian society, yet in which men still held all the power. Because I never did buy the BOP, or its corollary, the domino theory, and because I just couldn't abandon the egalitarian ideal, I remained on the left, politically, but mine was a very uncomfortable and qualified commitment.
Good luck with your project, and thanks for asking your questions. I very much enjoyed reading the other responses and hope you get more. Please don't be too quick to shut this question down, okay?
By the time I returned to the U.S., late in the summer of 1974, Vietnam was really off the public radar. It seemed to me that, once the tide of public opinion turned against the war in 1971, media attention began drifting away. It would snap back at moments of crisis (and dramatic newsreel footage), such as the fall of Saigon in 1975, but I couldn't help noticing that most people just seemed to want to forget the whole mess, to the great detriment of the veterans who needed--and deserved--recognition, assistance, and gratitude.
On the personal level, the war divided my family the way it divided the country. According to my antiwar-protester friends, my father was a war-mongering imperialist whose government work implicated him in murder, exploitation, and oppression of the most heinous kind; he might as well have personally poured napalm on the helpless bodies of infants after slaughtering their mothers as work where he did. Yet I knew him to be an honorable man who cared deeply about human suffering, and I knew a lot of my protester friends to be more interested in getting high, getting laid, and scrapping with police than in helping anyone. So I felt really torn. I could see that my father's position was logical, once you grant the legitimacy of "balance-of-power politics." And I could see the logical self-contradiction of a "movement," in which we were supposed to be forging an egalitarian society, yet in which men still held all the power. Because I never did buy the BOP, or its corollary, the domino theory, and because I just couldn't abandon the egalitarian ideal, I remained on the left, politically, but mine was a very uncomfortable and qualified commitment.
Good luck with your project, and thanks for asking your questions. I very much enjoyed reading the other responses and hope you get more. Please don't be too quick to shut this question down, okay?
So why is welfare still being given to illegal immigrants again?
Q. Before you answer that question
Answer this
My parents were victims if the vietnam war and came here with asolutely nothing
So why are their tax dollars being given to illegal immigrants that never actually experienced a war or a job again?
Btw I do understand welfare is an emergency to pick you off your feet
But past 1 year I really find it surprising that the handicap man that lives next to me is a teacher but you're at home waiting for your welfare check?
Answer this
My parents were victims if the vietnam war and came here with asolutely nothing
So why are their tax dollars being given to illegal immigrants that never actually experienced a war or a job again?
Btw I do understand welfare is an emergency to pick you off your feet
But past 1 year I really find it surprising that the handicap man that lives next to me is a teacher but you're at home waiting for your welfare check?
A. Illegal immigrants are not eligible for welfare, other than emergency care in a hospital. If their children are born here, they are eligible because they are citizens.
How would you answer this question?
Q. I have a project on Vietnam, and one of the questions you have to answer is the founder of government. Would you put the founder of the current government (please mention the name, if possible xD) or the founders of all the types of governments that Vietnam has had?
A. Ho Chi Minh
What challenges did this liberalism pose with the onset of economic problems? Vietnam War?
Q. I am looking for an answer to help me with explaining it to my daughter in a way she will understand. This question is based off the post war era 1960.
she had 3 questions to answer and did a great job on answering them but is having problems with this question and she is not understanding what i am saying. the other question were:
Why did liberalism become so prevalent in the US in the postwar era? What effect did this have for minority groups?
she had 3 questions to answer and did a great job on answering them but is having problems with this question and she is not understanding what i am saying. the other question were:
Why did liberalism become so prevalent in the US in the postwar era? What effect did this have for minority groups?
A. because one of the principal foundations of liberalism is peace and disarmament. After the Vietnam War, the country sympathized with that position.
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