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A 5 page essay that examines Bao Ninh's novel of North Vietnamese wartime experience and answers the question as to how the Vietnamese perspective of the war differed from the North American. T he writer argues that the basic answer is "not at all," as this novel is written in the tradition of All Quiet at the Western Front, and recounts the experiences of the ordinary soldier, not "larger" issues of ideology. No additional sources cited.
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salvation." As this slogan implies, the perspective of Kien was that of a man who fought for a simple reason - to defend his country from foreign invaders. The US
soldier, if he cared about the ideological rational that motivated US involvement in Vietnam, was fighting to stop Communism from taking over Southeast Asia, which was a remote threat, if
at all, to the national security of the US. However, Kien and his comrades fought to preserve the unity of their country, which Western forces sought to divide. Kien
joined the army and fought a bloody war in order to present a glorious future to succeeding generations of Vietnamese. But this cause, like everything else about the war, proved
to be disillusioning for Kien and his fellow veterans. He states that "Our history-making efforts for the great generations have been to no avail. What s so different here
and now from the vulgar and cruel life we all experienced during the war?" (47). As this illustrates, the perspective of Kien is just as disillusioned after the war as
were his American counterparts. Also, as this illustrates, once one gets past ideological differences to the heart of the war experience, the differences in perception between Vietnamese and Allied
soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on opposite sides of a battlefield. At Christmas, when the
shooting momentarily stopped, the soldiers on each side would sing the same carols. The soldiers on the battlefield were "brothers in arms," having more in common with each other then
with their leaders or the people back home. For all soldiers, it is the same. At the beginning of the war, the young men may be filled with the ideology
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