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A 5 page research paper that summarizes and analyzes five oral histories concerning personal experience during the Vietnam War. These histories are taken from The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides edited by C.G. Appy (2004). Accounts profiled are by a former Viet Cong guerilla fighter, a former US official, the wife of a war protester, and Senator John McCain. No additional sources cited.
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in Vietnam in terms of global politics; the idea being that that Communism had to be stopped in Southeast Asia or the entire world was threatened. From the beginning of
Gungs story, it is clear that she did not see the Vietnam War in these terms. She saw Americans in her country as invaders. She saw them as providing support
for the forces, police and soldiers, who brutalized the common people (Gung 16). The warfare that Gung describes is classic guerilla tactics, which the American forces were totally unprepared to
combat. Gung comments, "I think the Americans lost many people because they were applying conventional tactics against our ambushes and tunnels" (Gung 17). She describes the tactics taken against their
numerous tunnels and how effective they were, as the guerillas were prepared to remain underground for as long as necessary in order to survive. Gung also relates how easy the
Americans were to kill and how she killed many men. But, she adds, "Since the Americans came to my country, I dont feel guilty" (Gung 19). For Gung, the war
was not about Communism, it was about freeing her country from an invading force, and this was extreme motivation was never fully appreciated by the United States government. Barry Zorthian
Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In his essay, Zorthian describes how the
Tet offensive was perceived by the military and by the American public. Just weeks prior to Tet, General Westmoreland had appeared in Washington and, "very cautiously," announced that the "beginning
of the end was in sight" (Zorthian 292). After Tet, the dead bodies of Viet Cong soldiers were photographed in the yard of the US Embassy. The government rapidly lost
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