Henry Allen
But Kennedy's "New Frontier" was not to last. Instead, we got Lyndon Johnson, the "Great Society," and a protracted, soul-destructive war in Vietnam. By the end of the 1960s the nation was ripped apart by dissent and with Johnson's decision not to run in 1968, the Democrats lost ...
Wowwk arrived as an infantryman in the Army’s First Cavalry Division in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam in early January 1969 to fight in an escalating and increasingly unwinnable war. By June, Wowwk had been wounded twice—the second time seriously—and was sent back to the United States for ...
became involved, diplomatically and militarily, in the quagmire of Vietnam. As the first book to focus on the debate about the reasoning and causes of U.S. involvement, it fills a major gap in the study of the Vietnam war.doi:10.1080/03612759.1991.9949235Levy...
who initially supported the war in Vietnam were shocked by the bloodiness of the Tet Offensive, especially the fighting in Khe Sanh (which raged on for months) and in Hue. One of those Americans was journalist Walter Cronkite, who had accepted what the government told him about the war...
There was one member of the Beatles who nevershied away from political protest: John Lennon. He was passionately against the Vietnam War, but also wary of protestors using violence, as he declared in the song "Revolution": "You say you want a revolution, well you know, we all want t...
While tax laws and dual citizenship are the primary drivers behind U.S. citizenship renunciations, there are other, more personal reasons. Historically, some Americans have renounced their citizenship due to opposition to U.S. government policies, such as during the Vietnam War.13 ...
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In 1926, Congress passed a resolution making November 11 an annual observance and “Armistice Day” was celebrated for a few decades. In 1953, following World War II and the Korean War, the day was changed from Armistice Day to Veterans Day to honor U.S. veterans and victims of all wars...
2 By high school, I had traded in my cashmere sweaters for a black arm band. I marched for Civil Rights, shunned Civil Defense drills and protested the Vietnam war. It was easy being 18 and a peacenik. I wasn't raising an 11-y...