Dear Vietnam Veterans

I give you so much respect because you fought in a war that was so unpopular and some how you kept on fighting. Even with people protesting the war at home you were able to block that out and get the job done. It must have been scary thinking you might be the next one to go. And when that wall went up in Washington D.C. What did you think of it?

Farmer Nguyen, Massacre at My Lai, A Nun at Ninh Hoa

The impact on the Native Viatamiese people was incredible. It turned them crazy and left them scared for life. Kids saw people die in thousands. People burned themselves alive for protests. Inocent people died that could have been saved.
The war will impact the kids the most because after the war they will always think about seeing thousands of people dying.

I feel like I'm fixing to die rag

The song is asking the big strong men to put down there books and defend the US in Vietnam.
The song is asking the generals to go out and kill the communists.
The song is asking the walls street to the money in supplies for war.
The song is asking the mothers to send off there boys and be the first mother to have there son come home dead.

1. Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
2. Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box.
3. Open the pearly gates!
4. What are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn.

Jack Smith

• He flunked out of college
• saw deprived children
• he saw tons of his friends dying
• Bullets whizzing over his head
• He had to battle without generals
• He pretened like he was dead
• Almost going insane with fear

Through the reading you can see how much more afraid he gets. He is all calm in the beginning. The fear grows and grows until at the end he was almost going insane with fear. Also he after the war he stops taking life for granted.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The thesis of the article is the Vietnam has always been a controversial war and probably a lie. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a resolution saying the U.S. will defend there interests in the area near Vietnam. The evidence the author has is they never really bombed the Maddox and congress was forced to passing the resoltion. The whole thing was really one big lie. The author relates it to the Dubious Crusade when he says people doubted the The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

History

I think the overall theme is death. This poems is showing how pointless war is and how repedative it is. None of those countries never really won the war.

The Dubious Crusade

The title a Dubious Crusade means a doubtful war on religion. Warren is saying people disliked the war because it was all about religion. It relates to the rest of our studies because all around people hated this war. It wasn't meaningful to the American people and they thought it was pointless so they doubted it.

10 important things everyone should know about the Korean War

1. After WWII the UN decided to divide Korea in half along the 38th parallel with the northern half being controlled by the Soviet Union and the southern half being controlled by the US
2. In July 1950 Joseph Stalin was eager to expand communism so north korea attacked south korea
3. 100,000 north korean troops slaughtered south koreans lagging force
4. the UN had an emergency meeting and the former allies decided to help south korea
5. there were heavy cacualties but Douglass Macarthur would not retreat
6. the US was starting to win when China sent 250,000 trips into North Korea to help
7. China had succeeded driving all of the UN's forces below the 38th parallel
8. Douglass Macarthur wanted to drop 50 atomic bombs onto China but Truman said no in fear of driving the Soviet Union into war then Macarthur was fired
9. In June of 1953 both sides stopped fighting near the spot that they began
10. fighting went on for 2 more years after that

Has MLK's "dream" been realized? - Income

When you look at the recent findings you can see that African American income has almost tripled since 1980. It has gone from $10, 764 to $29, 645. At this rate it will catch the average white persons income soon.
Although this is true the average white person still has a third more money. MLK believed equality and until the incomes are closer its not equal. These numbers still mean that white people are getting better jobs or better pay. I think that MLK dream hasn't been met but it is well on its way.

Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?

Whites owe king the greatest dept because he got them out of hundreds of years of thinking whites are better than blacks. Without him America would not truly be the leader of a free world. King was the right man at the right time because without him blacks probably wouldn't have had the same rights as whites. It was the right time because a few things had just happened in history for example the Rosa Parks bus boycott and the Emmitt Hill killing. Those things really set up his case. MLK wouldn't not have liked what has happened to his "I have a dream" quote because Ward Connerly insists that MLK would be marching alongside him in his quest to have racial preferences.

After listening to the introduction to Unit 8, what are you looking forward to in history over the next few weeks?

I am looking to forward to learning more about Vietnam because I did my project on it and I am very interested in it.

Would you have been able to use civil disobedience and non-violence?

I don't think I could because after a while I would just get too frusterated. I think I would start out using civil disobedience but when the police would start being violent I would be violent back.