| 单词 | Vietnam |
| 例句 | Lyndon Johnson had halted the bombing of North Vietnam, and Nixon was reluctant to resume it. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z All he knew was that he wasn’t making good decisions since getting back from Vietnam, and this one almost got him shot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z "It's pretty hard with my fiancé in Vietnam," she said. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Because let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We are asking Americans to think about that, because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was confident he could frighten North Vietnam into backing down. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Kissinger reminded Thieu that Nixon had stuck it out in Vietnam for four bloody years. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In Vietnam, he interviewed all kinds of people: soldiers, rice farmers, orphans, generals, and even the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Toward the end of his year in Vietnam, de la O was no longer put on long operations. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I prayed for Lieutenant Baker, missing in action somewhere in the jungles of Vietnam near Khesanh. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Who was this college bowl fanatic with no mixer and a fiancé in Vietnam, and why had she taken so long to reveal herself? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He was after the North Vietnamese troops just across the border in Cambodia that were moving into Vietnam, attacking, and running back into Cambodia to hide in the jungle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Waiting with the Joint Chiefs was a young officer, Major Charles Cooper, holding a map of Vietnam mounted on a three-quarter-inch thick slab of plywood. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Gunthrie shot out of his seat, cursing loudly and yelling about snakes and Vietnam. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She had protested against the war, but didn’t run when he told her he’d served in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z That, Bundy said, or an all-out invasion of North Vietnam, which would probably draw in the Chinese army and turn into an even bigger calamity. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In April, at a speech in Philadelphia, Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson sparked the president’s wrath by gently suggesting the United States might try harder to find a negotiated settlement in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If he committed to war in Vietnam, it would drain resources from the domestic programs he dreamed of crafting. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z After a brief mention of the building, he turned to the action in Vietnam, emphasizing that the air strikes had been made necessary by the North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacks. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If North Vietnam agreed to a cease-fire and returned the American prisoners of war, Nixon said, he would end the bombing and withdraw the remaining American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Richie,” he had said before he went to sleep, “when you get to Vietnam, I hope you guys win.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was time to make a decision about Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Volunteers were reading the names of deceased Vietnam veterans in alphabetical order. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z An even more drastic linguistic upheaval must have swept over tropical Southeast Asia to the south of China—in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Peninsular Malaysia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sessions consisted mainly of the North Vietnamese negotiator lecturing Kissinger about the need to replace the American “puppets” in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Like everyone in South Vietnam, when she had turned fifteen she had begun carrying a small laminated card with her name, birth date, and photo on it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Tell him to hold out for a Nixon victory, tell him Nixon will be a better ally to South Vietnam than Humphrey. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Vietnam War was often referred to as the “helicopter war,”as the US relied heavily on them to attack, resupply, reinforce troops, and evacuate wounded. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Serving in Vietnam profoundly changed all of them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I sometimes try to picture him in the jungles of Vietnam. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z He decided it was time to leave Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The new president faced a daunting task in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Walking patrols for a week, Ellsberg lived the life of an infantryman in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When Lyndon Johnson took over after Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, he promised to continue backing South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In 1961, when Kennedy had taken office, there were seven hundred American military advisors in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “People are trying to stay out of Vietnam. Not join up.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It was yesterday’s Vietnam Situation Report, left behind from Johnson’s last day as president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I was in the army. Fought in Vietnam. First Battalion, Sixth Infantry. My position was rifleman.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When I visited the Vietnam memorial several years ago and began my quest to find and speak with veterans, I quickly realized I knew very little about the war and the politics surrounding it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And some four hundred young men, born into an America that is bursting with opportunity and promise, have ended their lives on Vietnam’s steaming soil. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I was thinking about all of the trauma and difficulty that had followed him home from Vietnam. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He knew the Vietnam War had destroyed Johnson’s presidency, and that it could do the same to him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Teachers didn’t have to go fight in Vietnam. So a lot of young men who didn’t want to fight became teachers.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “On the day the electorate, as expected in polls, was voting in unprecedented numbers against bombing North Vietnam or otherwise escalating the war, we were working to set such a policy in motion,” Ellsberg recalled. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Navy was placing mines in North Vietnam’s Haiphong harbor. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “They brought my kid brother’s body back from Vietnam last month, for God’s sake.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Many hours later as we approach Vietnam, the fisherman, in broken Khmer, tells us to lie on the floor and keep our heads down. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The president announced he was increasing the number of American troops in Vietnam to 125,000. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The second start was about how I was glad that the war was in Vietnam and not home, but that didn’t sound right, either. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What would happen when it became clear to the country that the Vietnam War was not going to end anytime soon? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The White House press officer alerted television networks that President Johnson wanted air time that night to make an important statement on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z By the time Scruggs was ready to leave Vietnam, he was bitter and disillusioned. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z What really struck Ellsberg was that government leaders seemed to have learned nothing from three years of failure in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Though advisors had died already in Vietnam, sending in combat troops meant many more Americans would be killed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Kissinger wanted Rand to prepare a paper analyzing the range of policy options open to Nixon in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But Robert was nearly fourteen, and the thought of the boy being sent to this never-ending war in Vietnam was one of Ellsberg’s main motivations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The time when Kampuchea was a large empire with territories encompassing part of Thailand, Laos, and what is now South Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Scruggs went on to graduate school and put together a questionnaire for Vietnam veterans about their war experiences and their return home. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z From the Oval Office, Nixon announces US military forces have left Vietnam as agreed in the Paris Peace Accords, March 29, 1973. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “What the hell is Vietnam worth to me? What is it worth to this country?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I don’t really care that you can’t tell me about Vietnam. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z South Vietnam’s army couldn’t hold on by itself. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Daniel gave up everything to devote himself to ending that foolish slaughter,” Harry said of the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Other documents covered the years after France’s defeat, as Eisenhower worked with the government of South Vietnam to delay and undermine elections they knew Ho Chi Minh would win. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There were cables from Vietnam he hadn’t seen, minutes from meetings he hadn’t known had taken place. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She decided to fly to Vietnam for a visit. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Confess your crimes. Promise never to bomb Vietnam again.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z National Guardsmen, called out by the governor to quell demonstrations, surround a Vietnam War protester during the People's Park Riot in Berkeley, California, 1969. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Throughout the spring, he rarely mentioned Vietnam to reporters or in his speeches. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There are pictures of my father when he was in Vietnam. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Lyndon Johnson,” he told his advisors, “is not going down as the president who lost Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And Martin Luther King, Jr. And how in five years I’d have to register for the Vietnam draft. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Some veterans were angry that their sacrifices in Vietnam had been for nothing; others were heartbroken over the death tolls. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The men spread maps and reconnaissance photos of North Vietnam on the table. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z During the peak of the Vietnam War, he volunteered for the Army in logistics as an alternative to being drafted and sent to the front lines like many of his friends. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Yep—sitting in front of a sewing machine all day. Best job in the world. That was after he got back from the war. Vietnam.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Did he cry? When Dad left for Vietnam?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The Geneva Accords, which officially ended France’s eight-year war in Vietnam, temporarily divided the country into North and South. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “How can you be going out with somebody who’s working on Vietnam?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You’re questioning me as if our policy was to stay in Vietnam,” Kissinger replied. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z One to keep as a reminder of our San Francisco excursion, one to mail to Pa and Big Ma, and one to send to Uncle Darnell in Vietnam. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Quietly implementing policies about South Vietnam was nothing new for the president. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Underneath the plastic sheet, covered with fish, I enter Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about the Vietnam War and was called Fields of Shame—a big-budget movie with a lot of stars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And now I was sitting next to someone just out of Vietnam, fresh from his job to kill or be killed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Cronkite spoke extensively with journalists and reporters who’d been in Vietnam for months or years, and asked for their honest opinions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z My sisters and I prayed to keep him safe when he was in Vietnam. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Vietnam might have been a different place, but the army hadn’t changed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta got mad and said, “My uncle did not go to Vietnam and shoot up poor people.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Like many of us in Vietnam, Dobbins felt the pull of superstition, and he believed firmly and absolutely in the protective power of the stockings. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I came back from Vietnam, she wept at my feet. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Those soldier boys that went back to the States after Vietnam. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z During the Vietnam War, he was a conscientious objector, and there is still something of the ’60s hippie about him, like the Mao cap he sometimes wears over his braided yarmulke. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “His brother, who was in the car, had gotten out of the Air Force and wouldn't be going to Vietnam—something to be happy about. Right? Any fool could see that.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Their attempt to aid South Vietnam was more than a failure: they had actually helped arm the enemy. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Antiwar activists wanted the United States out of Vietnam, honor or no honor. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Afterward a reporter asked Lin, “Don’t you think it’s ironic that the memorial’s the Vietnam Memorial and you’re of Asian descent?” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Without help, the army of South Vietnam could not hold out much longer. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Within weeks they began organizing for a massive, all-out demonstration to be held in the fall: the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Both North and South Vietnam interrogated prisoners in an attempt to gain military information. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z So Allen came up with a secret, highly improbable strategy for getting through Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z How will you win the war in Vietnam?’” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “To protect our men who are in Vietnam,” he said, “and to guarantee the continued success of our withdrawal and Vietnamization programs, I have concluded that the time has come for action.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There is a teenager on our block with one arm missing, we call him Leftie and he tells us he lost his arm in Vietnam. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “I have asked for this radio and television time,” he began, “for the purpose of announcing that we have today concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He said that Americans had no choice but to keep fighting in Vietnam until they achieved victory or until the Communists realized that they could not force their way of life on weak countries. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually, whichever team won first got to be America the following round, since America always defeated Vietnam in the video show. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I walked over to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, “the Wall,” near the Lincoln Memorial. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But in any case, Kissinger told the press, the bombing was North Vietnam’s fault. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Why couldn’t we—or wouldn’t we—get out of Vietnam? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Charges that King was Red were not new, but they had increased in number and vitriol in the past year, particularly since King had announced his opposition to the Vietnam War. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The important thing, Nixon decided, was to avoid disaster in Vietnam until after the presidential election in November. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His dad's brother had just died in Vietnam; that's why they sent his dad to Korea. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z His fame was also due to his activism against the Vietnam War, his efforts to fight racism with his words, and his devotion to humanitarian causes around the world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There would be no attempt at a reprieve for South Vietnam from America. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She had agreed, if necessary, to use her contacts to convey secret messages on Nixon’s behalf to Nguyen Van Thieu, the president of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z American troop levels in Vietnam were nearing 200,000, but the enemy was adapting by breaking into small groups and moving unseen through the rugged mountains and forests. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Beneath was an article detailing how the United States, under President Eisenhower, had secretly worked to undermine elections that were supposed to unite North and South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She had been against the Vietnam War from the start. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Philip Caputo, the young lieutenant who had led his platoon on some of the earliest combat missions in Vietnam, walked into his executive officer’s tent at U.S. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A few days later, Lyndon Johnson formally approved Operation Rolling Thunder, the sustained bombing of Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Did he want to tell Americans that one of the candidates for president was sabotaging his effort to end the Vietnam War? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Which was the only thing Coach could show him how to do himself, because Coach had lost both his legs to a land mine in Vietnam a long time ago. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z But Nixon was powerless to help South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On the morning of March 8, 1965, hundreds of United States Marines splashed through shallow water up to the beaches of Da Nang, South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I think it’s going to be a very emotional time for Vietnam veterans. We’ve been freeze-dried now for a long time. This is the big welcome home we’ve all wanted.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Instead, we called out to anyone on their stoop or in the street, “Our uncle is back from Vietnam.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Nixon solemnly promised to defend South Vietnam with air strikes if North Vietnam violated the terms of the Paris Peace Accords. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z After Nixon’s first few weeks in office, increasingly war-weary Americans wanted to see his plan for Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Scruggs felt furious he was going to bleed to death next to a tree in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z More than four decades have passed since the United States was defeated in Vietnam, yet the veterans I interviewed had vivid memories of their year “in country.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Those who’d served in Vietnam kept their heads down and did their best to readjust privately to civilian life. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “After three years of largely listening and learning, I believed that I knew things about the situation in Vietnam worth passing on in my own voice.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Priority number one was to gain congressional approval for expanded military action in Vietnam, if deemed necessary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Herbert Richardson was a Vietnam War veteran whose nightmarish experiences in brutal conditions left him traumatized and scarred. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I have never been more encouraged in the four years that I have been in Vietnam,” he announced as he stepped off the plane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He finished out his year in Vietnam in turmoil, relying on his Bible and his faith in God, just hoping to survive. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Too weak to move around, he balanced a typewriter on his stomach and typed reports on what he’d learned in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the morning of November 3, Election Day, Johnson’s advisors secretly met to discuss how the American military could most effectively come to the aid of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Besides, it doesn’t get easier with time, and twelve years later, when Vietnam presented much harder choices, some practice at being brave might’ve helped a little. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Vietnam War-era denunciations of the Pilgrims as imperialist or racist simply replicated the error in a new form. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As much as possible, he wanted to keep Vietnam out of the newspapers and off the nightly television news reports. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There were pictures of his dad and his dad's older brother who died in Vietnam, and pictures of Park and Josh from every school year. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z This was Vietnam, after all, and Mary Anne Bell was an attractive girl. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Staring out at all these new arrivals, Bill Koontz thought: Holy Cow, there’s more friggin hardware out there than we got in Vietnam! The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was furious with Daniel Ellsberg for heading to Vietnam without even discussing the decision. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The goal: to win over the “hearts and minds” of the people of South Vietnam, to help convince them they’d be better off siding with the Americans than with Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Weyand admitted the situation in Vietnam looked dire, but held out a thin thread of possibility: maybe the South Vietnamese government could be propped up with more financial help. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The article claimed King’s decision “to divert the energies of the civil rights movement to the Vietnam issue is both wasteful and self-defeating.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z All his life in Vietnam my father had been a farmer. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he grappled with an intensely painful realization—one that would have unsettling relevance to his bitter experience in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The North Vietnamese agreed to accept South Vietnam as a separate country, and a cease-fire was established.On the same day, in Washington, DC, the Selective Service announced the end of the draft. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z One to keep as a reminder of our San Francisco excursion, one to mail to Pa and Big Ma, and one to send to Uncle Darnell in Vietnam. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells me he went to see it when he came through the city with Eang and her sister on their way to Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing in front of the elevators, Sheehan explained that a source had offered to give him a copy of a secret government study about Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “My mind shot back a decade,” he later recalled, “to that day we had marched into Vietnam, swaggering, confident, and full of idealism.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This would lead to a continually worsening situation in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Many of the isolated, heavily defended camps were on hilltops in remote locations near Vietnam’s western border with Cambodia and Laos where Special Forces could keep track of enemy movement. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Vietnam’s way over there, Fern,” I told her. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He expected ultimately to be drafted and serve—the war was in full swing, and he was nothing if not dutiful—but a high blood pressure reading kept him out of the military and Vietnam. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z She had a boyfriend when she met up with Volpe that second time, but he was in Vietnam. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t really eliminate the need to make a decision, because the closer South Vietnam got to collapse, the more pressure there would be on the United States to intervene. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Friends who didn’t have to go to Vietnam. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Despite the constant search and destroy, there was always a steady flow of fresh troops from North Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Every time I protested the Vietnam War, I wound up in the same position. Those were the days!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He wanted to honor the medic he’d served with in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Vietnam or Iraq—one of those TV wars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The radical newspapers were full of stories about Vietnam. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Many of them had recently returned from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Scruggs asked for a moment of silence, then announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is now dedicated.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But this was Vietnam, where guys carried guns, and Dave Jensen started to worry. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He hopes his cousins in Vietnam are caring for his parents’ graves. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z It is the principle for which our sons fight tonight in the jungles of Vietnam.... Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Lyndon Johnson appealed to North Vietnam, offering massive financial aid in exchange for leaving South Vietnam alone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There were still more than half a million US troops in Vietnam, and weekly death tolls continued to mount. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Over the following hours and days, reading classified cables in his Pentagon office, Ellsberg learned the truth about the South Vietnamese attacks on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z King began his speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” by acknowledging he was moved to “break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I wanted to show her the Vietnam that kept me awake at night—a shady trail outside the village of My Khe, a filthy old pigsty on the Batangan Peninsula. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I saw him as an ex-Marine who became a mailman after he came home from Vietnam. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z One year, they say, during the Vietnam War, Morrie gave all his male students A’s to help them keep their student deferments. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They were just hours out of Vietnam, where life-and-death decisions were made with swift finality, and no one messed with Stringer. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He gave his medal to Pa, and Pa had given it to Uncle D when he went to Vietnam. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z McNamara wanted to use the details to help convince the president to begin a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “We just didn’t want to relate back to what was going on in Vietnam, or some of the things we went through or witnessed.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I think Papa loved him then, when he was in Vietnam, but he didn’t seem to love him anymore. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z It was something he had begun to sense in 1967, when he’d worked briefly on the study after returning from Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z North Vietnam simply had more talent, more discipline. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Pa was out keeping company with a Miss Marva Hendrix from Brownsville, and Uncle Darnell was carrying a rifle in the jungles of Vietnam. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Being with others who’d served in Vietnam, especially nurses, was incredibly helpful to her. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “You have my assurance,” he wrote, “that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z That evening, hoping to counter the massive protests of October 15, President Nixon spoke to the nation about the war in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In Vietnam, too, we had ways of making the dead seem not quite so dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Nixon and Kissinger were still looking for a way to pressure North Vietnam into concessions. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In July 1945, toward the end of World War II, American soldiers parachuted into North Vietnam with orders to find and to help Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I wanted to hear their stories, understand what their time in Vietnam had been like. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He began by talking about Vietnam, announcing he had decided against further escalation of the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The challenge, as he saw it, was to somehow convince North Vietnam to make concessions at the bargaining table. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Every night on the television news, Americans watched film from the Vietnam War: falling bombs, firefights, burning villages, the wounded on stretchers, and body bags loaded onto planes for the long flight home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was on a bombing run over North Vietnam when his plane was ripped open by antiaircraft fire. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had General Westmoreland fly back from Vietnam in November to convince Americans the war was going well. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Finally, Adams’s long year in Vietnam was over, and she was sent back to the Oakland Army Base in California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z All along, the North Vietnamese had been demanding the removal from power of President Thieu’s government in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Our complicated military involvement in the Middle East made me think once again about the dark, divisive days of the Vietnam War. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He’s from Vietnam, so the kids treat him different. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I knew Vonetta was still angry over what he had done to us but I missed him, maybe even more than when he’d been fighting in Vietnam. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Galen E. Haynie's grandson points out his grandfather’s name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Does he really think we re in Vietnam already?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy was not moved to protest the bombing of North Vietnam, did not shudder about the hideous things he himself had seen bombing do. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Without revealing the source of his information, Ellsberg tried to persuade colleagues at Rand of the danger—Richard Nixon was secretly escalating the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ho sent a series of messages to President Harry Truman, asking the United States to recognize the independent nation of Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At that time, no one knew where events in Vietnam were headed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z For twenty years this field had embodied all the waste that was Vietnam, all the vulgarity and horror. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The unending fight for justice both in black communities and in Vietnam exhausted King. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I knew it was his fighting in Vietnam that made him turn to drugs, and I knew it was the drugs that made him steal from us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z A Vietnam vet railed against the choice of black granite. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The United States insisted that North Vietnam stop supporting the war in the South. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He’d held many divisive meetings with his advisors about the political and military situation in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The plan was for the citizens of both the North and South to choose a single government that would lead a reunited Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Though reporters had no idea of the president’s complicity with the Vietnamese generals, they were eager to know how the coup would affect American involvement in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On his second tour of Vietnam, whenever he heard gunfire, he would wait. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He straightened out, became a fine young man, and he fought in Vietnam. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z More than eight million villagers were forcibly removed from their ancestral homes in a Joint US and South Vietnam program. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z With thousands of soldiers being sent to Vietnam, there were not enough volunteers for the military to meet troop needs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She wore delicate “love beads” around her neck and was in wholehearted agreement with the protestors who wanted America out of Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In Vietnam, the ambassador called a meeting to discuss a clandestine coup. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She came with several other women who had also been nurses in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Horan finished his tour of duty in Vietnam and returned to the States with a plan. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He had known Kissinger at Harvard, and had spent time with him in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And, on Johnson’s orders, the rest of the administration worked to change the mood of the country by spreading good news about Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The next day, President Johnson declared a Christmas ceasefire in Vietnam, and the bombs stopped dropping. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z RIGHT: Four years after getting back from Vietnam, Henry Allen found a job with the Selma Fire Department. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He wanted the president to expand ground operations into nearby Laos and Cambodia, and massively increase bombing of North Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And he wondered all the more intently if it might not be a good idea to transfer out of Milagro, forget about his high-falutin principles, and head for Vietnam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z North Vietnam’s ruler, Ho Chi Minh, was waging war to unite the country under one government—his. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z One veteran on board was Gilbert de la O. It had been sixteen tough years since he’d returned from Vietnam in 1966, and he wasn’t going to miss the dedication for anything. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But I could see us, Lucas back from Vietnam and me, throwing out in the field on a blue summer day. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In June, Nixon made a bold move, announcing that he would begin withdrawing American troops from Vietnam, starting with twenty-five thousand men. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z John McNaughton was the secretary of defense’s main assistant on Vietnam policy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was supposed to be working on a book about Vietnam, but was far more focused on figuring out what to do with the Pentagon Papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z All they knew was that the NVA moved closer to the city every day, eager to take over the capital of South Vietnam and declare victory. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z About twenty thousand American soldiers were stationed in South Vietnam, arming and training the military. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do,” wrote Justice Hugo Black. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When the plane took off for the final hop to Vietnam, the conversations got quieter. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The grandmother explained quietly without her having to ask that it was the room of Chadwell, Courtney’s older brother, a pilot who had one day crashed into the steaming jungles of Vietnam. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Climbing to twenty thousand feet, he rendezvoused with nine other Skyhawks headed for North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In Vietnam, Meng explains, the human smuggling operation, or leaving the country without papers, is illegal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In June, both the House and Senate approved bills to block all funds for U.S. military activities in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They carried the land itself—Vietnam, the place, the soil—a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Where were the men who’d come back, who’d laughed and eaten and fought alongside their buddies in Vietnam, mourned them in death? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When Henry Allen joined the military, it never occurred to him that he would end up serving as a machine gunner in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There was no way de la O could talk about his time in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I ran around barefoot, wearing peasant dresses, shared my parents with the other kids, protested the Vietnam War, did farm chores, and listened to a whole lot of sitar music. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But I also knew my uncle didn’t do any of those things while he was in Vietnam. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Gentlemen, I’ve just come back from Vietnam,” McNamara told the group, “and I’m glad to be able to tell you that we’re showing great progress in every dimension of our effort.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Watching the soldiers and the people in Vietnam on the six o’clock news was the only time I was glad we didn’t have color TV. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The person who was performing the introduction was telling the major that Billy was a veteran, and that Billy had a son who was a sergeant in the Green Berets—in Vietnam. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the largest heavy bomber strikes since World War II, and forced North Vietnam to make concessions at the negotiating table. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z At eighteen, I was in Vietnam fighting for my country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This was Johnson’s first major escalation of America’s war in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z From the American base in Japan, Horan and other members of the 3rd Recon were deployed into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Finally they were pulled out, and he was given a choice: he could be reassigned to the American base in Okinawa, or he could stay in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Each side continually explores the limits of the other’s tolerance, as in flights of nuclear bombers over the Arctic wastes; the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars—a few entries from a long and dolorous list. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Darnell had things he didn’t have when he left for boot camp and then Vietnam—and I’m not talking about things in his duffel bag. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Did I ever you tell you about any of my skirmishes while I was in Vietnam?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Ford made a last-ditch appeal to Congress for economic aid to South Vietnam, but his request was refused. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In a meeting with Le Duc Tho, Kissinger quipped that he had accomplished the impossible: he had unified Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Like all new arrivals at a get-to-know-you reception in Vietnam, Allen was asked where he was from. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I would learn everything possible about lost cats and Vietnam. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A pilot for South Vietnam bombed the presidential palace downtown that afternoon. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Didn’t they show enough war stuff on the news between the protests here and the shooting, bombing, and dying in Vietnam? Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Ali never caved to the pressure to reject Islam or to fight in Vietnam, even with the threat of jail time and a suspended boxing license. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We were in the West Coast epicenter of the military as they shipped men and equipment across the Pacific to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Both Haldeman and Henry seem to have an idea—which I think is mistaken—that even if we fail in Vietnam we can still survive politically,” the president wrote in his diary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Documents showed that President Kennedy sent Special Forces troops to South Vietnam in the spring of 1961, putting Americans into combat in Vietnam for the first time. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Each president had done just enough to avoid “losing” South Vietnam before the next election. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Lobel said something about the domino theory, how if Vietnam fell to the Communists then the rest of Asia might fall. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He related how the FLN had begun their struggle with a handful of guerrilla attacks in 1954, having been heartened by the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The number of American troops in Vietnam would double in 1966. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “He's in Vietnam. I heard her tell Mom.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Both North and South Vietnam hate me now.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Cobb sometimes subbed for their Social Studies teacher, and he always managed to slip in a story about the Vietnam War, even when their class unit was on ancient civilizations. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Should the United States commit to fighting a major ground war in Vietnam? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Out on the city streets of Washington, DC, Vietnam veterans were arriving by car, bus, plane, and even on foot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The next day, in Paris, Kissinger and Le Duc Tho initialed the deal to end the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z That was for my brother, who returned alive from Vietnam. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet what the Pentagon Papers showed was that each president made decisions to escalate American involvement in Vietnam knowing that what he was doing had little chance of success. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Where were they when he returned from Vietnam traumatized and disabled? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He vowed to keep his military commitment to Vietnam, and took sharp aim at the protestors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z If I went to Vietnam, I would not come back; females desert families. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On Christmas Day 1967, Tom Kelley’s plane touched down in Vietnam, and he stepped into a wave of heat, chaos, and noise. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Ellsberg was particularly impressed by King’s recent speeches against the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z American planes took off from nearby aircraft carriers and made sixty-four sorties over North Vietnam, bombing their torpedo boat fleet and a major oil depot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z How could he be so passionately against violence at home, and yet say so little about Vietnam? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In April 1975, the North Vietnamese Communists swept down through South Vietnam, heading for the capital, Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I knew Ali had refused to go to Vietnam and fight like Uncle Darnell was doing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He told Americans he was ordering a sharp reduction in the bombing of North Vietnam, in the hope that this would lead to peace talks with Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then the news team got to Peewee and asked him why he was fighting in Vietnam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of March, the last US combat troops pulled out of Vietnam, leaving ten thousand Americans: military advisors, Marines to protect US installations, and non-military personnel. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The economy in Cambodia is bad and Meng thinks maybe there will be work in Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Vietnam veterans, some wearing their combat uniforms, protest outside the US Capitol, smashing toy guns, 1971 About a thousand veterans took part in the weeklong antiwar demonstration in Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I believed equally in both, so I volunteered for Vietnam, delaying my dream of working on spaceflight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Scruggs found about 90 percent of his company had been drafted and didn’t want to be in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Times's Vietnam story was not at the top of the agenda, though it was briefly discussed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On her first day in triage at an army hospital in Vietnam, Lily Lee Adams was told to stay out of the way, watch, and learn. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z These were the first American combat troops sent to the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Her brother Robert was flying home from a battlefield in Vietnam. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z With “boots on the ground,” America’s involvement in Vietnam changed radically. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “The South Vietnamese people will assume that we have been sold out by the United States,” he complained to Kissinger, “and that North Vietnam has won the war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was against the bombing of North Vietnam, and she knew that. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Refugees known as "boat people" continued to leave Vietnam for more than a decade after the Communist takeover, particularly during the late '70s. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He was now “in country,” military slang for serving in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z American strategy in Vietnam was to rely on superior firepower to kill enemy troops faster than they could be replaced. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He said he planned to pull some of the advisors out of Vietnam by the end of the year. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “But our policy is to get out of Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z What about all the Americans who’d served and died in Vietnam? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She says she has come from Vietnam to search for Eang. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From his own experiences in Vietnam and his reading of the German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, Van Riper became convinced that war was inherently unpredictable and messy and nonlinear. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z More than a million Americans had served in combat or in at-risk support teams in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For years, the president had been telling the public how well things were going in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “We had to think,” he later wrote, “about initiatives that we could undertake to show the enemy that we were still serious about our commitments in Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They just wanted to survive their year in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Let us be united for peace. Let us also be united against defeat. Because let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In actuality, the Paris Peace Accords would be signed the following January and the last American troops would pull out of Vietnam in March. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was all there, starting with Truman’s decision to back France’s war to recapture its former colony, knowing a majority of people in Vietnam supported independence and Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Almost as soon as Nixon got back home, North Vietnam launched a massive offensive in the South. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Army in the Vietnam War: “You had a good home but you left.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z More than 100,000 Miao-speaking refugees from Vietnam have carried this language family to the United States, where they are better known under the alternative name of Hmong. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A poll taken in the spring of 1971 revealed that 71 percent of Americans believed that U.S. intervention in Vietnam had been a mistake. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Over the next few days, Marx watched Ellsberg locking up again, closing himself off exactly as he had before he’d left for Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Adams was shocked that an enemy soldier was so strongly against the war he wished he could march in the streets of North Vietnam’s capital city. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Polls showed that a large majority of Americans wanted no part of a war in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His grandfather was a Vietnam War veteran, a U.S. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Nixon knew there was no realistic military path to victory in Vietnam—not at a cost that would be acceptable to the American people. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Essentially, the resolution was designed to grant the president the power to order further attacks in Vietnam without asking Congress for a formal declaration of war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had been a POW in Vietnam, people said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But not releasing the document was, in Ellsberg’s view, another form of betrayal: a betrayal of the country he loved, and the people who were still dying in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Henry Allen and Mike Horan went to honor their childhood friends who had died in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On August 2, North Vietnamese forces spotted the American destroyer Maddox cruising in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His company is about to deploy to the Philippines for guerrilla training before being sent on to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As often observed, however, the 45,000 people killed annually on American roads are approximately equal in number to all American dead in the Vietnam War. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I found out the next day that Mrs. Bigio’s husband had died on a small hill with no name, in a small part of Vietnam. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The last weekend in September, he was told the time had come: he would be leaving Vietnam the next day. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Yes, Johnson and McNamara were telling Congress and the public only part of the story of recent events in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter whether they volunteered or were drafted, if they were ordered to Vietnam, they would be there for twelve months. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He detailed his role in helping to plan the early bombing campaigns, and told how two years in Vietnam had changed his views. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Volpe was in his mid-twenties and just starting off in his career, but he wasn’t one of those hippie teachers who talked about the Vietnam War, whole grains, and yogurt. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “I can’t imagine fighting peasants in Vietnam,” one student said to him, “given everything I have learned about moral behavior over my lifetime.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Just before he’d arrived in Vietnam, there’d been a tragic accident in his platoon, one that everyone was still reeling from. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Do you think my son is in Vietnam?” she asked her niece, who was dutifully eating. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z American military maps showed this region of South Vietnam in different colors: one color for land controlled by the South Vietnamese government, another for territory controlled by the Viet Cong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Someone in the class saw a flyer announcing a national competition to design a Vietnam veterans’ memorial. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z That seems like rather a grand name for it, and I don’t want to suggest that I went through anything like what soldiers who saw combat in Vietnam did. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Which goal was more important: supporting Vietnam’s right to independence, or containing the spread of communism? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The isolation only worsened what the press had begun calling the “credibility gap”—the gap between what Johnson was telling the public and what the public believed was really happening in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Eisenhower responded by sending weapons and military advisors to South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On March 16, Nixon sat down with Kissinger and General Earle Wheeler to discuss options in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Later on, in Korea and in Vietnam, Navajos would again use our code to send secret messages in battles. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t see why you’re pushing him to get a job when he’s been in Vietnam fighting and saw all those terrible things,” Big Ma told Pa, time and time again. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Americans elected A new president, Richard Nixon, who had campaigned on a promise to bring “an honorable end to the war in Vietnam.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He was assigned to the 11th Aviation Group, 1st Cavalry Division, and was sent to Camp Radcliff in An Khe, Vietnam. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Never again will I be silent on an issue that is destroying the soul of our nation and destroying thousands and thousands of little children in Vietnam.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They slipped into South Vietnam in February 1969 and mounted several devastating attacks. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Kissinger agreed to the complete withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was in favor of increased bombings, of bombing North Vietnam back into the Stone Age, if it refused to see reason. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I remember my children running out to climb over me at the end of the day,” he wrote in a letter from Vietnam, “and my heart turns over.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The war in Vietnam spread to Cambodia when the United States bombed Cambodia’s borders to try to destroy the North Vietnamese bases. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What looked from Washington, D.C., like a distant battlefield of the Cold War, appeared completely different from the vantage point of North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She moved to Hawaii, where it was warm and humid, like Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Vietnamese scale the fourteen-foot wall of the US embassy In Saigon, trying to reach evacuation helicopters as the last of the Americans depart from Vietnam, 1975. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On the long flight back to Washington, D.C., he stood in the back of his windowless military airplane, arguing about the situation with Bob Komer, one of President Johnson’s aides on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Advisors warned Johnson that the government of South Vietnam would not survive long without increased U.S. military support. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She wanted to be there to cover the first major protest against the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We were in Nam to stop the North Vietnamese from taking over South Vietnam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When Harris persisted in denouncing the Vietnam War, he was hissed into silence by the crowd. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “If the Communists dare put a foot in our zones, we will kill them,” President Thieu told the people of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This was the report that would become infamous as the Pentagon Papers, but at the time it had a less catchy name: “History of U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Lyndon Johnson had halted the bombing of North Vietnam four years before. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They weren’t the kind of people that had to be in Vietnam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When our government sent people to Vietnam, the violence they were exposed to affected them psychologically—and those were people that were sent there to kill and fight. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They should have been crying hysterically on their way to Vietnam. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Around me the newly arrived boat people talk excitedly to their friends and family, and deliver them news of relatives in Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was really gung-ho,” said de la O. “I thought, Oh, great, I’m going to Vietnam, man.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In June 1986, Newsweek declared crack to be the biggest story since Vietnam/Watergate, and in August of that year, Time magazine termed crack “the issue of the year.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I live in Vietnam, so what you think I’m gonna be if I live in it and they just went and visited? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At a press conference later in the month, Johnson announced he would send forty-four more combat battalions to Vietnam and would double monthly draft calls to 35,000. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He had come away from Vietnam sick to death of being lied to by American officials. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z While the rate declined in the 1990s as the shadows cast by the Vietnam War began to recede, it has picked up again as a result of the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her mother had been born in Vietnam from a father who was a black American soldier. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I thought about my dad and how he never talked about Vietnam. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I’m going to be dead within minutes in this little nothing battle in Vietnam that’s not going to change the course of the war, he thought. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z To make sure he didn’t miss a single piece of news coming out of Vietnam and reaching the American public, Johnson had installed three televisions in the Oval Office, side by side. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, visits the construction site, 1982. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z With most students and teachers I knew, I was opposed to America’s Vietnam War. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The early afternoon skies were blue above the coast of North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A few weeks after getting to Vietnam, Oshiro was sent on a routine sweep of a small island a few miles off the coast. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “People are dying in Sudan and Palestine and Vietnam. People are dying everywhere.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Once we left Vietnam and went back to the world, we would never see each other again,” said Oshiro. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We didn’t mix, those of us against the war and the guys who came back from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In Vietnam, for instance, Ted Lavender had a habit of popping four or five tranquilizers every morning. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z General William Westmoreland, the commanding general of US forces in Vietnam, pointed out that the American air base in Da Nang, near the border between North and South Vietnam, was now vulnerable to attack. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z What bothered him was that American policy in Vietnam was failing. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Most were top secret cables and reports on Vietnam from the U.S. military, the CIA, and other agencies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Determined not to allow the Vietnamese domino to topple, American agents worked in secret to prevent elections in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Another woman added that if the desires of the black community were once again disregarded, “right here in Durham will be another Vietnam.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After surviving his tour in Vietnam, he had returned to the States and found work as a newspaper reporter in Chicago. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had risked everything to help end the American war in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Vietnam War, however, had taken some young Americans out of the workforce, and the school-age population was still booming, so teachers were needed. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The story described how Johnson had decided to expand American involvement in Vietnam while telling the public he sought “no wider war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Marx still had her radio show in New York and took the opportunity to tape an interview with Neil Sheehan, a New York Times reporter who had been in Vietnam for three years. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As North Vietnamese attacks in South Vietnam intensified, Johnson decided to run a continuous bombing campaign over North Vietnam aimed at destroying railroads, bridges, roads, and manufacturing plants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z At the Pentagon, the team working on Robert McNamara’s secret Vietnam study was finally finishing up. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It felt a little like when he’d left suddenly for Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then I remembered about the news guys asking us why we were fighting in Vietnam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Yep, and, get this: the boy in the book is really good at baseball, and he’s from Vietnam. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z To get the conversation going, he asked for a show of hands—who believed that the majority of the people in South Vietnam were hoping for a victory by the Viet Cong? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Several months earlier, Kennedy had given the green light to the top secret Cable 24.3, sent by the US State Department to the American ambassador stationed in Saigon, South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It was an auspicious beginning to America’s military involvement in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Rick Kingsley, back when he was showing me around the Washington Correctional Facility, had remembered Sing Sing as the worst nine months of his life, his stint in Vietnam included. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to see how this girl’s sewing turns out. I want to see your son come back from Vietnam. I want to see if this one gets good grades. There’s so much to do.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The sustained bombing of Vietnam, he confided, was showing no discernable results. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z So I took pride in sliding gracefully from Vietnam to graduate school, from Quang Ngai to Harvard, from one world to another. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A bus took him and others fresh from Vietnam to the San Francisco airport, and they were told to find their own flights home. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There wont be a South Vietnam left to abandon. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But American troops did not go to Vietnam, and neither did Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z One day, Kelley was talking with a buddy of his who was getting ready to leave Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z To ensure secrecy held up, Nixon had the Air Force falsify reports on the bombing runs to look as if they took place over South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For a moment she flashes to Vietnam, where some of the best reporting ever took place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In the late 1800s, long before the start of the Cold War, France took control of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, ruling the three countries as a colony known as French Indochina. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Plumbers were set to strike again on May 3, when Ellsberg was scheduled to appear at a Vietnam War protest at the Capitol Building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The president’s orders for an air strike on North Vietnam had reached the Constellation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And in the two weeks between that interview and Ellsberg’s start date at the Pentagon, violence in Vietnam pushed the country closer to open war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This drug-resistant type of malaria began to appear among U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, in which more soldiers were incapacitated by the disease than by battle wounds. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A March 19 conversation in the Oval Office revealed a different reason for prolonging the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z South Vietnam had an enormous military, but the forces were spread out and ineffective. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Moon Orchid didn’t find a boy who looked like a bat, and no stubs, so decided that that boy must be the one in Vietnam. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Secretary of State John Kerry, who more than forty years before had been the first Vietnam War veteran to testify before Congress against the war, put it more bluntly. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Across the country students were rioting over civil rights, Vietnam, social justice, and government cover-ups involving tapping phones and secret wars. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I look at Sandra, who’s standing by the picture of the naked girl running after being burned by napalm in the Vietnam War. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Shortly after returning to Fort Ord, Adams received orders to deploy to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In early March, General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces in Vietnam, requested that two battalions of marines be sent to Vietnam to help guard the American airfield at Da Nang in central Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He defended the difficult choices he had made in Vietnam to stop a Communist takeover and praised the troops who’d done the fighting. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Since sending in the Marines three years earlier, Johnson had been unable to bomb, fight, or negotiate his way to victory in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Charles Warring is reporting, telling me that sixty American soldiers have been killed in Vietnam. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The CIA operated covertly in Vietnam, as it did in many countries, and let the Vietnamese generals know the Americans would turn a blind eye to their plans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For millions of young Americans, and their families and friends, Vietnam was no longer a distant conflict. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z French rule in Vietnam would deny power to the Communists. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He ordered a brutal bombardment of North Vietnam, soon known as the Christmas bombing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The two had had long talks about Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In a move many believe was intended to distract attention from the Vietnam War, Nixon announced that scientists would cure cancer within five years, just in time for the United States Bicentennial. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Lest anyone doubt the importance of what he was doing in Vietnam, he carefully linked American independence and freedom with the “steaming soil” of faraway Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z To keep the Cambodia operation secret, the military prepared phony reports for Congress, stating that the bombs were actually falling on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His strategy from this point on, he said, would be to gradually turn over the fighting to South Vietnam—a policy he called Vietnamization. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z For Mary Anne Bell, it seemed, Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you’re risking something. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z During the Vietnam War, John and Marti Peterson spent three perilous years together in neighboring Laos, where John trained and advised a guerrilla army to fight the communist insurgency there. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z With so much death and dying in Vietnam, Kelley’s conviction that he would die in Vietnam grew until it hung over him like an inevitable, inescapable destiny. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On October 1, 1966, de la O was sent to Vietnam and assigned to Charlie Company, and Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She sat up suddenly; she had forgotten about her own son, who was even now in Vietnam. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They listened to the radio and the fast-moving rumors, and just hoped Huynh would find a way to get them out of Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I mean, after Vietnam and Watergate, who the hell wants to hear “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”? I used to like the Fourth of July okay because of the fireworks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The prisoners were led inside and shown exhibits celebrating Vietnam’s bloody victory over the French and the ongoing fight against America. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When Uncle D came home from Vietnam, he became like a ghost rattling his chain and moaning in the night. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The children of Vietnam, who’d forced him to grapple with his conscience, needed and deserved to be free from falling bombs and searing napalm. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There was a rumor among the Americans that Vietnamese wearing black clothing were Viet Cong, and those that wore white were loyal to South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Relations between the United States and Vietnam are now friendly. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had written to me about how it rained off and on in Vietnam, but Vietnam rain couldn’t top Brooklyn chill in early October. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z For weeks they had been silently infiltrating South Vietnam, and they struck with a coordinated fury that shocked everyone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But if Ellsberg’s personal life was finally looking up, the situation in Vietnam was getting worse. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I believe that a peaceful Asia is far nearer to reality because of what America has done in Vietnam,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I began this book naively believing the Vietnam War had ended in 1975. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I don’t think here could be like Vietnam.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one, Oshiro’s three older brothers had left Hawaii to join the military and were sent to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He knew that meant he’d be sent to Vietnam, as a member of a mortar squad. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Nguyen’s father died before she could go back to Vietnam to visit, but in 1995 she returned to see her siblings. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Now the weight of America’s involvement in the whole complicated, messy conflict in Vietnam sat squarely on his shoulders. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In public, both Johnson and General Westmoreland continued to speak of steady and encouraging success in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Back in Vietnam later that year, Ellsberg sat with an elderly couple in the living room of their home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Though still weak from his bout with hepatitis, he spent some time in the capital trying to share what he’d learned in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Young, yes, and politically naive, but even so the American war in Vietnam seemed to me wrong. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I helped Mrs. Baker carry all the trays down to her car—one at a time—hoping that the Wives of Vietnam Soldiers would not notice the chalk dust all that much. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z President Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, visit injured servicemen who have returned from Vietnam for care at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, 1965. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They were already drinking from a thermos, the one Dave said his father had carried in Vietnam. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I handed him the tights while Walter Cronkite was announcing new bombing in Vietnam. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The reporter didn’t know details, but he’d gotten wind that something big was about to break in tomorrow’s New York Times, something about Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I have looked through my father’s World War II scrapbook many times; I have seen Vietnam on television; I have ingested countless movies about Ancient Rome or the battles of the Middle Ages. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There were just seventy thousand Americans left in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Fina tells me about how her grandfather fought in the Vietnam War and lost one of his legs there and how sometimes he swore he could still feel it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z If he let it slip that he’d served in Vietnam, criticism was sharp. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When my half-brother Wayne was killed in Vietnam, I was able to handle the grief of his loss by writing about it for Essence magazine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The next day, April 30, word spread through the barge: the president of South Vietnam had ordered his troops to lay down their arms. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He found a desk and a phone with a direct line to the American military headquarters in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z According to the CIA, the bombing campaign was costing the United States nine dollars and sixty cents for every one dollar of damage inflicted on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Today the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the most visited memorial in Washington, DC, attracting three million visitors every year. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In the summer of 2004, in the largest single mass defection, South Korea flew 468 North Koreans from Vietnam to Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Van Riper beat Blue Team because of what he had learned about waging war in the jungles of Vietnam. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Other Austronesians managed to establish themselves in parts of southern Vietnam and Cambodia to become the ancestors of the modern Chamic minority of those countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It symbolizes everything Vietnam was,” he told me. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam had been planned for months. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Neither did the public learn that the Central Intelligence Agency was warning Johnson that even a large American ground force would probably be unable to stop the Communists from eventually taking over in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The United States, committed to stopping the further spread of communism, backed the government of South Vietnam; it was corrupt and unpopular, but firmly non-communist. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The village, like many in Vietnam, had high rates of polio, a disease that caused muscle weakness, even paralysis. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “By November 6,” Daniel Ellsberg later said, “the day after the election, I was back to my regular obsession with Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You will write apology to peace-loving people of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,” the prison guard demanded. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Americans agreed to halt the bombing of North Vietnam, and in exchange North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to sit down with representatives of the government of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had only gone to church the first Sunday that he was home from Vietnam. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to hear rapid fire, like you would hear somewhere in the jungle in Vietnam,” says Inspector Edward Messadri, who commands the police precinct in Brownsville. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted students to understand why it was vital for the United States to fight in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I wanted to be free again to tell what I knew and what I believed about our Vietnam policy,” he said of the decision. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I tell her I’d like to plant flowers from Vietnam in her backyard. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z All I know about Apocalypse Now is that it’s about Vietnam. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Pa told Big Ma Uncle D spent a lot of time in Fulton Park with the other soldiers who were home from Vietnam. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Now thirty-three, with a wife and two sons, he was back in Vietnam, this time as a journalist, covering the final battle for Saigon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “He had no stomach for it, no heart for it,” Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson later said of her husband’s feelings about Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Recent polls, an aide pointed out, showed that the public approved of the American commitment to support South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The recruiter assured her that army nurses volunteered to serve in Vietnam; they weren’t ordered to go. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She became very involved with the Vietnam Veterans of America, and served on its National Board of Directors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When John died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War, Marti returned to the United States in a state of stunned disbelief. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z President Kennedy holds a news conference concerning Laos, 1961 The small country with two million inhabitants was, like Vietnam, considered an important place to halt Communist domination of Southeast Asia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “And without Watergate, I think Nixon might have been able to keep up the bombing of Vietnam indefinitely.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z With Vietnam on fire the army was taking everyone they could get, but there was no guarantee I could be a journalist like Hersey. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He assured Thieu that the United States was not abandoning South Vietnam, that Nixon would continue the bombing as long as necessary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z North Vietnam’s strategy was to keep fighting, to keep absorbing punishment, until the American public tired of war and demanded the withdrawal of American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Speaking almost in a whisper at first, Ellsberg told the jury he had been a hawk when the Vietnam War began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She was housing a mad sister who cursed the mornings for her children, the one in Vietnam too. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Because even though Mai said during the cat search that her mother came from Vietnam, I hadn't completely given up on the idea that she could have something to do with the Cahuilla tribe. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z North Vietnam had no intention of renegotiating points that had already been settled. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It’s the money they used in Vietnam, before the war. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Nixon felt justified, because the Communists were using Cambodian territory to move supplies and stage attacks in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Instead of fixing things for the Negro race, Richard Nixon would win the war in Vietnam, clean up the country of its long-haired, drug-smoking hippies, and get those black militants and bean-pie-selling “Mooslims” in line. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Scruggs was discharged the same day he deplaned from Vietnam in Oakland, California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A real battle is under way now, a fireflight, a little bit of Vietnam brought back home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There was just one thing left to do in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The 1968 Democratic National Convention turned bloody as police went after Vietnam War protesters with batons and tear gas in Grant Park, about nine miles north of where we lived. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia,” Johnson began. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The coup was a huge, fateful step into the quicksand that Vietnam was rapidly becoming for the United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The president wanted an honest, firsthand report on how serious conditions actually were in South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z In November 1966, he was inducted into the army and the following April was sent to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Over the next three and a half years, American planes would drop a daily average of eight hundred tons of bombs on targets in North and South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ho Chi Minh and his communist allies gained control of North Vietnam, with their capital in Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was one of the last demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Is it fair to say Nixon prevented the Vietnam War from ending in 1968? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the last night of July, South Vietnamese sailors on patrol boats fired missiles at radar stations in North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z An independent Vietnam might ally itself with the Soviet Union. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I thought about Herbert, about how desperately he wanted the American flag he earned through his military service in Vietnam. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z If I survive this, he thought, it will be a miracle; and he wondered if things would have been more peaceful in Vietnam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 22, a group of friends gathered in Detroit at a “blind pig,” an unlicensed bar, to drink and welcome two black servicemen back from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He could bomb, put US forces in Vietnam, and initiate large-scale combat operations, all without consulting Congress. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In short, Wheeler explained, what they were doing in Vietnam was not working. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “We have relied on South Vietnam to carry the brunt. Now we would be responsible for satisfactory military outcome.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He heard that from his uncle who fought in Vietnam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Asked by journalists why he didn’t just cut American losses and leave Vietnam, Johnson repeated a pledge he had made many times: “I’m not going to be the first American president to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I refuse to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point,” Kissinger told his staff. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A European diplomat described a recent trip to North Vietnam, and the destruction he’d seen from American bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He could pick something safe, and stay out of combat in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For months, Johnson had been assuring Americans that he had no intention of expanding the country’s role in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In addition to several thousand Americans still in Vietnam, there were at least a hundred thousand “at risk” Vietnamese who had worked closely with the Americans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I am overpowered with the fact that at this very moment, we are killing people in Vietnam with our tax dollars.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now we were agreeing totally,” she later said of their views on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z After returning from Vietnam, he’d moved to Washington, DC, and enrolled in junior college. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She said it was so unfortunate the way the rest of the world was, how unpopular the Vietnam War was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She immediately went to talk to the chief nurse, who told Adams they were desperate for good nurses in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He says the safer way to go to Thailand is via Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pointing to Cambodia on the map, he explained that communist forces were using this territory to store supplies and stage attacks in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Without missing a beat Vonetta said, “That you been to Vietnam.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Sensing my fear, Kim tells me the route Meng took to Vietnam is very safe, and does not cross any Khmer Rouge zones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Having served two tours in Vietnam at the height of the war, he found himself woefully unprepared for the flat pitch of life out of uniform. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And every day my Government gives me a count of corpses created by military science in Vietnam. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Saint Paul has a large population of Southeast Asian refugees, and de la O mentored Hmong teens from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In this way Bobby Joe built up some interesting and valuable connections and with their help, just before leaving Vietnam, he worked out a daring plan to send himself a “body.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Several weeks later, his transfer orders came through: he was being sent to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Everyone comes home from Vietnam a little bit different. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Ten years before, Caputo had been one of the first marines to see combat in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Oshiro was proud to be wearing the green beret, and ready for anything Vietnam could throw at him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “We couldn’t just cut and run. We had to consider the people of Vietnam and what might happen to them, especially those who had supported us.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They say Dr. King is un-American because he was against the Vietnam War. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The media were only too willing to cooperate, because as far the New York media was concerned, crack was the hottest combat reporting story to come along since the end of the Vietnam War. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By the end of 1967, Johnson had nearly half a million troops in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They may as well have been over with the Wives of Vietnam Soldiers at Saint Adelbert’s already, for all the chance we had of getting one. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Militarily, the Tet Offensive was a win for South Vietnam and the United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In March 1979, he and Rebecca went to see a movie, The Deer Hunter, about three blue-collar guys from Pennsylvania who serve in the Vietnam War together. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The study was a secret history of the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Viet Minh fighters were supposed to have left the South, but thousands stayed behind and helped to form a new guerrilla force calling itself the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I saw this vastness in the students chopping it up in front of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, where Muhammad Ali had addressed their fathers and mothers in defiance of the Vietnam War. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z After almost three months in the jungles of Vietnam, he got found. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Privately, he promised President Thieu that American involvement in Vietnam would not end. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Milkfish farming in the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and India faces a similar problem. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This sickening deduction changed the way Ellsberg saw the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It wasn’t North Vietnam Nixon was talking about. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In late October 1969, Adams flew to Vietnam and waited at an army base for her assignment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As the helicopters lifted off, Caputo gathered his platoon and set out on one of the first American patrols of the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "You want this?" she asked, holding up an old Vietnam veteran's hat. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z After presenting an update on the fighting in Vietnam, he turned away from the camera as the show went to a commercial. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In Vietnam we had no weather like that. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Fie had served all over the world, including combat tours in Vietnam. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Vietnam, not far from Japan, was seen as an important line in the sand for holding back Communism. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z No mention that since then more than twenty thousand Americans had died in Vietnam—all to achieve a lousy deal that allowed North Vietnam’s army to stay in the South, making a lasting peace impossible. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He looks like Santa Claus after two tours in Vietnam. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A Vietnam veteran who opposes the war throws his medal over a fence that kept protesters away from the Capitol, 1971. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z North Vietnam had a communist government, allied with the Soviet Union and China. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He found that the men couldn’t forget their in-country years, and that the experience had isolated them from their friends, their family, and even from whom they’d been before going to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z David Oshiro was in the eleventh grade when his brother Robert came home on leave from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The 60 million Austroasiatic speakers are scattered from Vietnam in the east to the Malay Peninsula in the south and to northern India in the west. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I think for a moment what I do know of herbicides, ranging from less toxic solutions like vinegar, salt, and dish soap to something like Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Again, the United States faced the possibility of a communist Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Five days later, as North Vietnamese troops encircled Saigon, Ford ordered the evacuation of all United States citizens from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When helicopters flew over her house, she would think she was in Vietnam and run outside to receive the patients that would be off-loading. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He avidly read books by Robert Lifton, a psychiatrist who worked with trauma patients, including Vietnam veterans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z One issue, Life magazine’s “The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll,” with photographs of the 242 men killed the week of May 28 through June 3, 1969, deeply upset him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Even South Vietnam’s large army, which was supposed to patrol and protect these areas, avoided the enemy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z |
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