Viewing many films about the Vietnam war and talking with Veterans has brought me some insight on the war. In my mind, the Vietnam War was brutal. It was the first war that used guerrilla warfare and the soldiers were not even aware of what they were doing over there. The book The Things They Carried brought me more insight than anything else. The book was touching and explained the horrors that these soldiers went through. It showed it from their minds as well which gave even more insight. My mother was engaged to a Vietnam war veteran, Paul. He was an awesome man, but it was obvious that he has gone through a lot in his life time. Paul worked at a middle school as a social worker or something. He told me a story of this one time when he went into work and he had a meeting with many other workers. They were sitting in the meeting room when the school bell went off. This bell goes of many times a day, it tells the students when to switch classes. Paul had horrible Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, so as soon as the alarm went off he yelled something and jumped under the table.
I know very little about the present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but a war is still a war. There are families living their lives right now wondering how their loved one is doing oversees. There are soldiers watching their best friends get killed. The difference would be that technology has advanced greatly since the Vietnam war.
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