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After thinking about all the things we would gyp this year in Americanhistory I decided to do my project on the experiences of Vietnam Warveterans. There is a lot of list as to whether or not the VietnamWar veterans are given teeming recognition for what they went through. I haveheard horrible stories of US soldiers expiry from US bombs, shell shock, andsoldiers returning to America and not being fit to function as activemembers of society due to the horrors of the contend. All I really know aboutthe war is what I have seen on television. I wanted to learn about the warthrough the firsthand accounts of those who were on that point.The Vietnam War was a military struggle fought in Vietnam from1959 to 1975. It began as an elbow grease by Communist guerrillas (or Vietcong)in the to the south, backed by Communist unification Vietnam, to overthrow thegovernment of South Vietnam. The struggle grew into a war amidst SouthVietnam and North Vietnam and ultimately into an internati onal conflict. The linked States and around 40 other countries supported South Vietnam bysupplying troops and munitions, and the USSR and the Peoples res publicaof China furnished munitions to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. On bothsides, however, the burden of the war fell mainly on the civilians.1On January 27, in Paris, delegations representing the United States,South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Provisional RevolutionaryCommunist Government of South Vietnam sign-language(a) an Agreement on Endingthe War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam. The armistice officially went intoeffect on January 28. Both the US and North Vietnam asseverate that therewere no secret peace terms.2All the US trash forces had withdrawn from Vietnam by March1973, but not without major losses on both sides. Two gazillion Vietnamesewere killed and 3 million were wounded. The extensive use of napalm anddefoliants (such as Agent Orange) left many mickle badly burned, anddestroyed the ecology of a countr y that was mainly agricultural.This is an alpha part of US history because it was the first war inwhich there was no clear winner. 57,685 US soldiers were killed, and triplethat amount were wounded. Even those who returned to the United stateswithout physical damage suffered from depression, and had to live withmemories of the carnage and destruction that they saw. What bothers meabout... ...arried, but quite decided on throwing it away, so that he wouldnt be up to(p) to. Soeventhis early in the war, the horrors of the POW camps were already known.I believe the worst torture Stafford had to endure was being withoutwater. As succession passed, Staffords awareness shifted away from his physicalpain and the uncertainty of his post and focused on one single fact andsensation he was thirsty... He got down off the stool, onto his knees, andlicked the floor where he tiles joined, hoping some water had a accumulatedthere. When that failed, he tried licking modify places on the wall,ho pingthat some water had sweated through.6 It was only his second daytime withoutwater, and he had to wait three more.The book continues to describe the horrible conditions in the rooms,the small amounts of food, and the torture that they had to go through onoccasion, but never was any soldiers ordeal described the way Staffordshad been.Its amazing how some people can persevere. After spending cardinalyears as a Vietnam POW Stafford was released. When he returned homehis wife was still waiting for him, and the only problem he suffered wasoccasional depression.