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.