Vietnam2
American intervention in Vietnam began with a generation of boys born to the veterans of the second World War. Boys who lived in the afterglow and dreamed of the glory. Patriotism was thick in a country who came out of the second great war stronger than it had entered. We were unbeatable. America had survived to continue it's fight against injustice and for liberty. The new fight was against communism. The war might never have taken place had the United States aided Ho Chi Minh in the fight to liberate Vietnam from the French, a fight the Americans had experienced themselves not all that long ago. In light of France being an ally the United Stated did not see their way clear to assist a colony from French Philip Caputo's book, "A Rumor of War" is full of painful honesty about the fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. The boys from working class families were doing the fighting and the dying in a land ten thousand miles from home. Caputo speaks of a nation divided in it's opinion on the war and the soldiers who fought in Born on the Fourth of July tells the story of the return of a Vietnam veteran. The country the vetera
On one hand, the military is creating a favorable report from the field to make it appear as if the war will soon be over, the newsmedia is flooding television with images of burning villas and dead civilians and the politicians keep insisting they are reducing US involvement and that the war is soon to end. "People didn't want to know about the tumults of the warrior's heart, to hear the cries that came howling straight out of the heart of darkness, the belly of the beast. There are still differing opinions about US involvement in Vietnam and there always will be. The issue that remains is whether or not politicians learned anything. Initial support for the war quickly waned as it became apparent the war was unwinnable. The protesters protested, the enlisted men fought and died, and the rest didn't pay much attention. The people are ready to lift the blame from the soldiers shoulders and give them the respect they deserve. They came back to a community that was largely disgusted with their behavior. 1977,1996Born on the Fourth of July, Universal Pictures. America's image of itself and its role in the world after Vietnam were forever changed. The US military was defeated in a third world country. " (Caputo, 353) The book and the film both reach the same conclusion: A nation that is finally ready to listen to and hear what these men have to say.
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