The Vietnam War was a great tragedy that impacted the American psyche for a multitude of generations. The lasting impact…

Christian Appy describes the Vietnam War as a “working-class war” because most of the soldiers came from poor or working-class…

The Vietnam War, fought from the mid 1950s to the early 1970s, was an unpopular war at the end but…

Americans in Combat

Appy argues that Vietnam was a working class war because the conflict disproportionately impacted poor people. Appy states, “Roughly 80…

ABB Christian Appy states that Vietnam was a working-class war because by facts most of the people that participated in…

Christian Appy argues that Vietnam was a “working-class war” because the war was fought disproportionately by men from working-class and…

Looking at the soldiers who fought the Vietnam war we see a pattern of class division in the American military.…

Christian Appy argues that the Vietnam war was a “working class war” because 80 percent of those enlisted came from…

Of the 2.5 million enlisted men in Vietnam, roughly 80% were from working-class and poor backgrounds (Appy). In contrast, World…