Seek and
Destroy, or even simply S&D,
refers to a military strategy that became a large component of the Malayan
Emergency and the Vietnam War. The idea was to insert ground forces into
hostile territory, search out the enemy, destroy them, and
withdraw immediately afterward. The strategy was the result of a new
technology, the helicopter, which resulted in a new form of warfare, the
fielding of air cavalry, and was thought to be ideally suited to counter-guerrilla
jungle warfare.

They thought that the United States should do what ever is necessary to win. Doves think that the problem in Vietnam is a civil war. They thought that the United States had no right to be in their conflicts. They also believed that the money that was spent there that it would be much better invested in America for certain programs.

(June 9, 1916 –
July 6, 2009), he was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary
of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon
B. Johnson, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United
States involvement in the Vietnam War.

It also known in
Vietnam as the "Trường Sơn trail", was a logistical system that ran
from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of
Vietnam (South Vietnam) through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.
The system provided support, in the form of manpower and materiel, to the National
Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (called the Vietcong or
"VC" by its opponents) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), or
North Vietnamese Army, during the Vietnam War.

was a student
activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations
of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the
mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.

The Pentagon Papers,
officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study
Prepared by the Department of Defense, is a United States Department of
Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam
from 1945 to 1967. The papers were discovered and released by Daniel Ellsberg,
and first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The
New York Times in 1971. A 1996 article in The New York Times said
that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson
Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to
Congress.” More specifically, the papers revealed that the U.S. had
secretly enlarged the scale of the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia
and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of
which were reported in the mainstream media.

to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and
the federal government from using age as a reason for denying citizens of the
United States who are at least eighteen years old the right to vote. The drive
to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the country during the 1960s,
driven in large part by the broader student activism movement protesting the
Vietnam War.

The Credibility Gap was a satirical comedy team comprising
Harry Shearer, Richard Beebe, David L. Lander and Michael McKean. Lew Irwin,
John Gilliland, Thom Beck, and Len Chandler also performed in their early days.
They emerged in the late 1960s doing comedic commentary on the news for the Los
Angeles AM rock radio station KRLA 1110, and proceeded to develop more
elaborate and ambitious satirical routines on the "underground"
station KPPC-FM, Pasadena, California.

The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of
South Vietnam, by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation
Front of South Vietnam (also known as the Việt Cộng) on April 30, 1975. The
event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period
leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a socialist republic,
governed by the Communist Party of Vietnam.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 3 acres (12,000 m2)
national memorial in Washington, D.C. It honors U.S. service members of the
U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in
service in Vietnam/South East Asia, and those service members who were
unaccounted for (Missing In Action) during the War. The memorial is managed by
the National Park Service under its National Mall and Memorial Parks group.

It was like a furnace.Walking off an air-conditioned plane into
the [air], it was like walking into a furnace. It was a hundred-and-some-odd degrees. Just what I remember, it was awful hot