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Men not in school above the age of 18 and able bodied

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Able bodied men

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People at the age of 18-22 usually.

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Young men in the age range of 18 to 22

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Usually people that were 18 to 22 and class also had to do with it.

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The majority of the public saw it as useless and pointless and often protested the war.

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People 18-22

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The public did not have good opinion of the war and many of the veterans were not welcomed home

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age 18+

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Because China became communist is 1949 and the us was afraid that it would get control of all of Vietnam.

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He was not greeted with open arms like he thought he would

He was greeted with resentful eyes

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young dudes

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He was not received very well, often got dirty looks if any at all,

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China became communist which made us think it could spread to Vietnam.

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They saw it useless and a waste of money

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To prevent the spread of communism proactively.

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Men ages 18-22

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It was different because they were actually in the war and the news reports were just an outside look on things.

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The public didn’t necessarily agree with the war because they couldn’t really see the main point of it all.

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At the beginning the people saw it as good thing then later on the people thought it was pointless

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he was not greeted at all

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Men above the age of 18 and or men not in school

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They didn’t like the veterans at all.

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China became communist and the USA was afraid of it spreading to South Vietnam.

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it was a waste of money

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The public did not like the war, not agreeing with it.

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It was to fend off communism

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People saw it a waste of money.

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The US became involved because of the fear of communism. Also after the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Because China had become communists and the US didn’t want them to get larger taking control of Vietnam.

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The general opinion changed from supporting America and its involvement in the Vietnam War, to really hating it. As time went on, people realized that what they were told wasn't true about the War (the information given to the civilians were twisted) and people really turned against the War and America's involvement after realizing the truth about what happened.

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The US thought that Vietnam was gonna turn communist because China became communist

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Young adult men

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The United States were blind by its fear of communism and once they saw that communism could potentially spread to Vietnam the United States intervened

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The general public opinion on the Vietnam War was that it was a waste of time and resources.

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They were greeted with resentment and hatred

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He wasn’t greeted with open arms liked he hoped

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Men over the age of 18

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To stop the spread of communism

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The United States became involved in the Vietnam War when it became clear that communism was a threat to the country, and one of America’s many motto’s is “We kick commie [REDACTED]”.

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They were all against it and didn’t want us to fight

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Originally, Americans were all for it until they realized how bad war is

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Young able-bodied men

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Majority thought it was pointless

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Many people supported the war because they were misinformed by media and thought the US was liberating Vietnam from communism.

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Stop communism

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At first many supported the war to stop the spread but because of documented papers telling the people that the government hasn’t been completely open about the war. Once people started seeing more stuff on the news about the war it became more sickening to watch.

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He thought everyone would love him and greet him with open arms but in fact he was almost hated

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They saw the war as pointless and a waste.

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It was different because the veterans were surrounded by people dying and many of them were friends and family while the news reports were of the outside showing them none of the death

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Healthy young men

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they were afraid of communism

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To stop the spreading of communism

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Young men, and I believe more often those in a lower class.

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The news covered very little while vets get PTSD

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Young men that healthy and not in a system of education.

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Communist were in control of North Vietnam and the US was afraid that the communism was going to spread out to South Vietnam and the rest of Asia.

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On news papers he would see people welcoming troops, but when he arrived he was shunned and realized the Vietnamese people did not see them as liberators, but as enemies.

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To prevent communism

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The youth but men 18 and up.

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they saw the war as a waste of time and is useless to risk your life for this

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The US got involved in the Vietnam War because they were terrified of communism spreading throughout Asia, (via Domino Effect), so they decided to step in and try and stop communism from spreading into Vietnam.

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It was different because there’s a reporter’s point of view, and there’s the soldier’s perspective which must be more detailed due to the experience.

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It wasn’t worth it

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The veteran was greeted by the Vietnamese people with resentment.

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Veterans going into the war saw that they we’re looked as hero’s and they were they’re to protect but once they got they’re they quickly saw everything that they thought was happening was the opposite

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Male form 18

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The veterans' experience different from the news reports of the war because the US media twisted the information they spread to US citizens while the Veterans lived through that experience and knew about the atrocities that they are committing onto Vietnam (like the bombings, destruction of houses, land, etc.)

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The general public had little interest in the war until it became public that the government wasn’t being honest about what was happening overseas.

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The Vietnamese people did not see him as an ally.

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people who didnt make that much money

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Veterans weren’t greeted well by the Vietnamese at all.

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The veterans weren’t very well liked there. They were looked at as enemy’s as well

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They thought they would've been greeted very friendly, but it was the exact opposite. They were hated and despised from the Vietnamese people.

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Low and Middle class college aged men, as being enrolled in school made you exempt from the draft, and college is expensive.

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News reports on the war told a narrative in which the U.S. was winning against the threat of communism in a foreign country, while the reality was that young men were dying for an unjust cause, and that U.S. troops were getting revenge through killing civilians who couldn’t be distinguished from the actual enemy.

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The veteran who we saw interviewed had seen the news reports on the war in high school and was drafted with the mentality that he was helping liberate the foreign land and would be welcomed as such, which he found to be untrue before he was confronted by the reality of the war.

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Bc China changed to communist and they didn’t want it to spread

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They didn’t really have any I stress in the war

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Male that’s usually 18

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The report are them look like hero’s and were winning

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Young men around eighteen or college kids

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They believed that North Vietnam was trying to spread communism.

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Because they didn’t want Vietnam to be one a communist country.

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Very negative, a lot of people were very against it and the government at that time.

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He was seen as an invader he was seen as someone that shouldn’t be there that’s doing bad stuff who was not welcomed in this foreign land

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Mostly men that weren’t in college and were ages 18 and up.

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Majority of the public was against the war.

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To stop the spread of communism

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They didn’t really like it cause they didn’t think it was doing anything.

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The news was only grabbing things that they thought were good for the news but the soldiers knew differently

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This is pretty much when media started lying because they were telling the people yes the war efforts are going good we’re doing all this stuff and the governments lying and none of this was actually going on yes there was some do you know fighting between Vietcong and American soldiers but a lot of it was traps and snipers and just fighting against the civilians who weren’t fighting back

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We wasn’t greeted like he thought he would

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That the war was a good thing and that the America were winning 😂

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They really disliked him because they didn’t even want our help to begin with

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The news reports of the war were kind of opposite as to what was actually happening in Vietnam; the veterans were shocked when they arrived at the war.

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Most likely between 18 and 22

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They was confused as heck. They had no idea why they were in the war or what they were doing. They was just attacking and attacking.

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They had very different reports cus the media was pretty much lying to america

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They didn’t like the war the war was seen as an evil thing in American should be there in there is all these calls to stop the war but even after the war soldiers weren’t welcome back like they were most wars many of them were spit on disrespected and this is where are you know some hatred of veterans came from and a lot of homeless vets came out of this war because of trauma and the support bad people abandon them even though it wasn’t their fault that they were there in the first place