Vietnam War by Natalija Skoko https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12 War is Evil and Obscene en-us 2017-10-04 14:30:22 UTC 2017-10-10 03:26:57 UTC hello@padlet.com The Eve of Destruction nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193887052 "And marches alone can't bring integration, 
When human respect is disintegratin',
This whole crazy world is just too frustrating',"]]> 2017-10-04 14:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193887052 Born on the Fourth of July nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193888808 "But it all tumbled down when we ambushed the town,
In the night how the metal was flying.
We blew it to hell. Really did our job well,
But just women and kids did the dying."]]> 2017-10-04 14:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193888808 Martin Luther King's Speech "Beyond Vietnam," delivered April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193892443 "The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom, and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism."]]> 2017-10-04 14:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193892443 John Kerry, testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971. nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193894459 "...someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say that we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.'"]]> 2017-10-04 14:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193894459 The Things They Carried nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193896789 "...the American war in Vietnam seemed to me wrong. Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law...The only certainty that summer was moral confusion" (O'Brien 38).]]> 2017-10-04 14:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193896789 Pentagon Papers nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193899705 During the Vietnam War, the American government created a web of lies that was nearly impossible to detangle. Body counts were under exaggerated and success stories were fabricated to attract support that the war in no way deserved. All the government secrets were exposed to the American people in a series of New York Times publications called the "Pentagon Papers." I believe this is a critical event because it showed the public how corrupt their government was and the papers harnessed the power to change their minds and deteriorate public support. ]]> 2017-10-04 14:54:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193899705 My Lai Massacre nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193900008 War has the regrettable power to take a human and strip them bare of any and all humanity. During the Vietnam War we lost many more hearts than we did lives. The men entered the war wholesome, they had families, and love, and hope in their souls. But the war transformed them into empty beings. They had nothing but anger and vengeance on their minds. The men who entered My Lai and murdered and raped women and children never would have done that if it were not for Vietnam. The war took innocent men and created monsters. ]]> 2017-10-04 14:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193900008 The Things They Carried nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193901106 "War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead" (O'Brien 76).]]> 2017-10-04 14:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/193901106 Complacent Race Found Poem nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/195427419 A great responsibility
Deep in our being
To care for the weaklings
This world needs a healing

Fighting for "equality"
With unabashed verocity

Drowning in hypocrisy
Doubting our democracy
Everybody's thoughts become impatient to the cause

Anger boiling up in me
Tearing at my sanity
Aimed towards authority
Our country wants no one to see]]> 2017-10-10 02:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/195427419 War is a Weapon of Mass Destruction nskoko2019 https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/195431048 2017-10-10 02:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nskoko2019/xlifn377fz12/wish/195431048