Category: Week 7: Vietnam War
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The Price for Glory: Was Their Sacrifice for Honor or Just Another Tale of Shame?
Why has military service been normalized as a one-way ticket for a lifetime supply of security and glory? Or, was…
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Vietnam War
In Christan Appy’s essay, he says the people who served didn’t represent the generation as a whole. He says this…
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The Vietnam War and the Military Class Divide
To some, including Christin Appy, the Vietnam War could be seen as a “working-class war.” This is mainly because of…
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Culture War: Vietnam’s Demographical Disparities
Appy and DeGroot both dove into hard-to-tackle concepts surrounding the Vietnam War, with Appy covering the demographics present during the…
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Appy & DeGroot single-handedly make me like John Lennon less
In Christian Appy’s article, he explains that the war in Vietnam was a “working-class war” because the men fighting and…
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Fighting for Survival: Class, War and Lies
Christian Appy’s work in Americans in Combat critiques the ways in which the Vietnam War’s realities were obscured by sanitized…
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Division
Christian Appy argued that Vietnam was a “ working class?” war because most that were drafted were working class people…
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Battles Beyond the Field in Vietnam: The Class Divide and Demoralization
At the time of the Vietnam War, 27 million “baby boomer” men were becoming of draft age. Of the 27…
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The Social Demographics and Enduring Legacy of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was indeed predominately a working-class war; approximately 80 percent of the soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War…
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The Working-Class War
Christian Appy argues that the Vietnam War was primarily fought by young men from the working class. Unlike World War…