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5 pages in length. From May 10-20, 1969, US and South Vietnamese troops collided for control of Ap Bia Mountain; in these ten days, fifty-six soldiers lost their lives and four hundred twenty more were wounded from the 101st Airborne. The United States ultimately captured "Hamburger Hill" by killing five hundred ninety-seven enemy soldiers; however, once the conquest is made, orders came down to abandon what they fought so hard to obtain, leaving the hill completely wide open for the North Vietnamese to move in and take back the hill unopposed. This particular military approach was not widely heralded back in the states and created a significant amount of hostility from the American people. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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101st Airborne. The United States ultimately captured "Hamburger Hill" by killing five hundred ninety-seven enemy soldiers (Hamburger Hill); however, once the conquest is made, orders came down to abandon
what they fought so hard to obtain, leaving the hill completely wide open for the North Vietnamese to "move in and take back the hill unopposed" (United States in Vietnam).
This particular military approach was not widely heralded back in the states and created a significant amount of hostility from the American people. "...That the United States went
to war to defend its economic empire suffers when exposed to fact" (Fallows PG). II. BACKGROUND Clearly, the Vietnam War did not
represent a significantly popular time in United States history, inasmuch as American involvement proved to divide an already agitated nation. Brian VanDeMarks Into the Quagmire : Lyndon Johnson and
the Escalation of the Vietnam War illustrates the misguided judgment that beset an otherwise complacent American presidency, which is clearly understood from the following passage describing a tense confrontation between
George Ball and Dean Acheson: "...You remind me of nothing so much as a bunch of buzzards sitting on a fence and letting the young men die" (VanDeMark PG).
III. PROBLEM No matter how Hamburger Hill is analyzed, the outcome is the same from all sides: it was both "senseless and irresponsible" (United States in Vietnam). The cost
in lives coupled with the irrational orders to abandon created such a fervor in the American people that support for the presidency was at a new low. With this
military approach avoided in future battles, Hamburger Hill became the "last major search and destroy mission by U.S. troops during the war" (United States in Vietnam). "No event in
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