As growing numbers of young men were conscripted to fight in the war in Vietnam, a hit song helped drive the push to lower the voting age to match the draft age.
As Rambo famously put it, "Somebody wouldn't let us win," and he did not mean North Vietnam. This malaise, to borrow a Jimmy Carter-esque phrase, was home grown. Basically, it was the liberals who had prevented the United States from being allowed to win. And the results are well ...
Why Did Columbia University Students Protest in 1968? At the time of Kennedy’s assassination, U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War remained fairly limited. But that changed in August 1964, when the so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident prompted Congress to grant expansive war-making powers to new...
In 1971, as the Vietnam War was heading into its sixteenth year, congressmen Robert Steele from Connecticut and Morgan Murphy from Illinois made a discovery that stunned the American public. While visiting the troops, they had learned that over 15 percent of U.S. soldiers stationed there were...
"I let mom lean on me because now I stand in your shoes," wrote Tyler, then 17 years old. "I don't know how you did it, but you got us through. Now when you look down at me, there's an image of you." Band of Brothers ...
And that is despite famine, despite wars against the US in Korea and Vietnam, and despite losing all support from the Soviet Union during that period. This wasn’t just lucky coincidence, but again the willingness to really go “down to the ditches” and sending experts, teachers, and doct...
aVietnam War 正在翻译,请等待... [translate] aLonely people may not be proud, agreeable people are not necessarily happy, dominated the people are not necessarily happy, people who love you be thinking of you, your loved one may not want you, is not necessarily the people you want to ...
Exposition: A man got enlisted in the Vietnam War and had to leave his farm. Because his town was unlisted, he never learned how to get back home. He’s had loves and losses, and wondered from city to city, but still feels that something is missing. ...
Take a cultural class: Taking acultural classcan help you not only gain new skills but also learn to appreciate the country’s heritage. Did you know that the Vietnamese egg coffee was created during food shortages in the French War? Whether you learn to make egg coffee, practice kung-fu...
manufacturing orders from China to other Asian nations such as Vietnam. Another effect was a weakening of the Chinese currency, the renminbi. Less demand for Chinese products led to less demand for the Chinese currency.9 What Do Countries Try to Achieve in a Currency War? A country devalues...