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The F-4 Phantom, a useful US asset that served as a Fighter/Bomber in Vietnam.

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America didn’t just lose the war, and the lives of 58,000 young men and women; Vietnam changed us as a country. In many ways, for the worse: It made us cynical and distrustful of our institutions, especially of government. For many people, it eroded the notion, once nearly universal, that part of being an American was serving your country.

- New York Times

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“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” —AP correspondent Peter Arnett

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The advocacy of Vietnam veterans was critical to getting
governments, mental health professionals and the broader
community to accept the impact of war on their mental
health. The Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Study demonstrated the importance of epidemiological studies in
providing independent evidence about the legitimacy of the
veterans’ concerns. The focus of veterans’ advocacy
increasingly broadened with time to focus on how their
children were indirect victims of war. However, the challenges in designing epidemiological studies to investigate
the impact of veterans’ combat experience on the health of
their children should not be underestimated because of the
many potential confounding factors that need to be
considered.
- International Journal of Epidemiology,

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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

Muhammad Ali

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We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the Anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University California, Berkeley.
Bobby Seale

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“I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

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American nationalism post Vietnam war

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Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones

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Abby and Meg

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Abby and Meg

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The song "We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place" contains lyrics about the US involvement In Vietnam.

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“I guess it was hard for him to look at the logic behind the draft lotteries, because that same logic had taken away his father

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“All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”—The first lines of the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, issued on September 2, 1945, quoting the American Declaration of Independence.

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"You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Abby and Meg

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I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
-John Wooden

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"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-President John F. Kennedy

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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
-Richard M. Nixon

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"Both sides wanted the same thing: a unified Vietnam. But while 🤬 and his supporters wanted a nation modeled after other communist countries, Bao and many others wanted a Vietnam with close economic and cultural ties to the West." - History

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“For it seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.”
—Walter Cronkite in an editorial

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“Hey, Hey LBJ, How many kids did you kill today?”

-Common Protest Chant popular in 1967

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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture -- aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.
-Stephen vinzinczey

This quotes means that America only cares for its own interests. Conflicts abroad are inconsequential to its government and citizens.

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“My solution to the problem would be to tell them frankly that they’ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Ages.”

-General Curtis E. LeMay

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Although both popular imagination and academic research on the Vietnam War continue to flourish, there is no consensus in sight. Only the U.S. Civil War rivals the power of the Vietnam War to divide and inflame generations upon generations of Americans.

ANDREAS W. DAUM, America, the Vietnam War, and the World

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“Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”—President Richard Nixon

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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

Gore Vidal

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The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States in the twentieth century. That is indeed a grim distinction in a span that included two world wars, the assassinations of two presidents and the resignation of another, the Great Depression, the Cold War, racial unrest, and the drug and crime waves.

DONALD M. GOLDSTEIN,

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“We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” —President Lyndon Johnson

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Shayla Verity and Karen

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You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.

🤬 CHI MINH, a warning to French colonialists, 1946

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Protesters burn their draft cards outside the Pentagon in 1972.

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During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.

Ben Shapiro

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The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States in the twentieth century. That is indeed a grim distinction in a span that included two world wars, the assassinations of two presidents and the resignation of another, the Great Depression, the Cold War, racial unrest, and the drug and crime waves.

-Donald m Goldstein

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“Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place.” —President John Kennedy

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Riley Bea

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“We do this [escalating U.S. military involvement in Vietnam] in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam—and all who seek to share their conquest—of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.”—President Lyndon Johnson, speaking to the nation on April 7, 1965 explaining his decision to send U.S. combat troops to Vietnam.

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“You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.” —President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking at a press conference on April 7, 1954

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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America -- not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Montreal Gazette, May 16, 1975

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“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?... This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality... I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”

-Muhammad Ali

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“You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and the possibilities of a decent America"

-Martin Luther King

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Riley Bea

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“The Vietnam Was was like a wound that would never heal” -Ed Sanders

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“Are we like the God of the Old Testament that we can decide, in Washington, what cities, what towns, what hamlets in Vietnam are going to be destroyed?… Do we have to accept that?… I do not think we have to. I think we can do something about it.”

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“It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas.”

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“Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home… I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.”

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President Jimmy Carter's ability to use military force to free American hostages in Iran in 1979 and 1980, and deterred President Ronald Reagan from seeking congressional approval to fund the Nicaraguan contras in the early 1980s.

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“Our long-term objectives are… to see installed a self-governing nationalist state which will be friendly to the US… We have an immediate interest in maintaining in power a friendl

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“Our long-term objectives are… to see installed a self-governing nationalist state which will be friendly to the US… We have an immediate interest in maintaining in power a friendl

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The spread of communism and the after affects of the Cold War caused  the social aspect society to change and eventually lead to the Vietnam war.

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“Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place.”

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Standing on the moon
I see the battle rage below
Standing on the moon
I see the soldiers come and go
There's a metal flag beside me
Someone planted long ago
Old Glory standing stiffly
Crimson, white and indigo - indigo

I see all of Southeast Asia
I can see El Salvador
I hear the cries of children
And the other songs of war
It's like a mighty melody
That rings down from the sky
Standing here upon the moon
I watch it all roll by - all roll by

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“You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.” —Viet Minh leader 🤬 Chi Minh in awarning to French colonialists in 1946.

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President Johnson's Great Society programs competed with the war for scarce resources, and constituencies who might have supported liberal social programs turned against the president as a result of the war. The war also made Americans, especially the baby boomer generation, more cynical and less trusting of government and of authority.

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An open letter to president Johnson signed by several hundred university faculty questioning the United States war with Vietnam, March 1, 1965

While some soldiers did indeed resent the antiwar movement, thousands of soldiers also actively opposed the Vietnam War. They petitioned, demonstrated, and organized opposition, from San Francisco to New York, from Idaho to South Carolina, and even in Vietnam. As the fighting stretched on, many soldiers grew disillusioned with the war and distrustful of the American government. The government insisted the war was being won, but from the soldier's perspective, the war was far from over. The increased physical and psychological deterioration that both volunteers and draftees experienced led to high rates of drug abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Illicit 🤬 like 🤬, opium, morphine, and heroin were widely available to American soldiers in Vietnam. The frustration in some units contributed to a breakdown in the discipline leading to mutinies and desertion.

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Economic Theory's Contributions to the war

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Economic Theory's Contributions to the war

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"The 17th parallel split Vietnam in half. 🤬 Chi Minh, backed by China and Russia, took the northern territory. A democracy, backed by the United States, took the southern territory. As a result, North Vietnam became communist and South Vietnam based its economy on capitalism."

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking at a press conference-1954

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking at a press conference-1954

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“You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.”

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"Johnson gradually grew more confident that his Vietnam policy had the support of the American people. Both Democrats and Republicans approved Johnson’s escalation in Vietnam, and so did public opinion polls in 1965 and 1966."

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“Our long-term objectives are… to see installed a self-governing nationalist state which will be friendly to the US… We have an immediate interest in maintaining in power a friendly French Government, to assist in the furtherance of our aims in Europe. This immediate and vital interest has in consequence taken precedence over active steps looking toward the realization of our objectives in Indochina.”