Tag: Vietnam War

• What is History: An Essay, Part I

  History is an educated guess on a wing and a prayer.  Mere shadows of the past come to life in history but can shadows be trusted?  Our views of history can be revised, mis-understood or completely wrong.  History can be pigeon-holed and molded to fit an ideology, point of view, or interpretation.  History can drive…

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  April 5, 2012

  Civil War, Essay, History & Culture, Vietnam, Writing Excerpt

  Bui Tin, Gettysburg, History, Vietcong, Vietnam War

• The Human Experience of the Vietnam War

  The Vietnam War created a surreal environment where normal rules of civility did not apply.  Soldiers had to live with the immediacy of death. This psychological game of trying to cope with war’s grim reality distanced them forever from their former civilian life.  Tim O’Brien in his semi-autobiographical Vietnam War novel The Things They Carried…

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  March 16, 2012

  History & Culture, Vietnam

  Vietnam War