... part in a remarkable forum at New Jersey's Vietnam War Memorial in Holmdel, New Jersey. Scholars ... win the support from congressional conservatives to continue its Vietnam War escalation. Meanwhile, community activism especially among white ... Johnson and condemn with all of his eloquence the philosophy behind US involvement in the war, the false claims of the Johnson administration in defense ...

... current one in Afghanistan, the "other" Vietnam War is rarely mentioned. This is very unfortunate, because it might be just the correct ... programs, the Open Arms Program, or the "Other War," faltered. Pacification - militarily forcing ... option. President Obama might want to consider more funding for the "other war" in Afghanistan, or the building of more schools, clinics ...

... options when reading your fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, etc. with the Vietnam War as the primary or secondary theme.Books can take place before, during, or after the war.  Books from other challenges count so long as they ... this year, and we thought that it would be fun to do a group review here on War Through the Generations midway through the challenge on Paco’s Story by Larry ...

... the Afghanistan War is a repetition of LBJ’s escalation of the Vietnam War in 1964. Our country wonders this weekend what is on President Obama’s mind. ... what the fuck is Obama doing? What’s the end game of escalation of the war? Will the Taliban ever throw their hands up and walk away? No, they will not, and even if they do, there is a thousand other offshoots of fundamentalists ...

... /11/2009), which relates the lessons of  the Vietnam War to the war in Afghanistan. With a clenched stomach, I realized ... 8217;s article, I was about to write that there can be no military solution to the war in Afghanistan, only a political one. But I almost fainted with boredom ... political pressures that go back almost fifty years, to Vietnam, or even sixty years, to the myth that the United States ...

... other conflicts, such as the current one in Afghanistan, the “other” Vietnam War is rarely mentioned. This is very unfortunate, because it might be just the correct path to pursue in seeking ... war dragged on, some personal aides claimed Johnson was never more ecstatic over Vietnam than when pledging to send billions of dollars to help toward construction and agricultural projects and the ...

... to the content. Bradley and Young edited a multi-perspective book on the Vietnam Wars and they manage to concisely offer, in the podcast, a glimpse of how many ... in there, is the one that Bradley and Young call revisionist and that is the idea that the Vietnam War was actually won by the US, or if not, could have been won. More NBIH: 1989 - Padraic Kenney, The Ossie twilight, The first ...

A new resource for IGCSE history – Events of the Vietnam War. --- Related Articles at ActiveHistory:Interactive Newsfeed – The Korean WarTimeline GeneratorRoots of the Cold War: Events (Historical Differences)Timeline GeneratorYear 7 History Revision: Timeline worksheet

... recently begun project by FedEx to created a “Digital Wall,” to honor those service members who died in the Vietnam War. Impact: Huge. Ease of execution: Easy. Take up ... to be captured for history. Do you have friends/family members who died in that war? Get them out and stop in. You have until May 13th, 2010 to do this. No excuses. No cost, just a few ...

... the 5,069 junior officers who died in Vietnam as well as the ones who survived.  We are reminded all officers had volunteered ... commissioned through ROTC. Part two has the young officer in Vietnam.  The four chapters in this section examine the junior ... evaluations of their superior officers. This is a book that all students of the Vietnam War should read.  I encourage all military ...

... you have lined up or come across on a whim. For those who sign up, we have a bunch of buttons for you to use on your blog, but Vietnam War specific buttons are still in the works.  Keep your eyes on the War Through the Generations blog for other announcements. The only things I have left to talk about are the fun group reading project we ...

... the information you need to sign up can be found by clicking here. The Vietnam War Reading Challenge will run from Jan. 1, ... We hope you will join us! Meanwhile, this is the final month of the World War II Reading Challenge, and we'll be furiously adding ... term.  That's right...even though the focus will switch from WWII to Vietnam, we'll continue to add links of WWII book ...

... Author: Ang, Cheng Guan Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Although a great deal has been written about the Vietnam War, this is the first book which considers how the other countries of southeast Asia were affected ... the differing responses – Thailand and the Philippines both contributed militarily to the US war effort, whilst Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore were non- ...

I’ve written about my killer score of finding Portland’s underground newspaper, The Scribe. Here are some photos scanned from the October 12-23, 1972 issue about an anti-war, anti-Nixon, pro-McGovern protest. The turnout wasn’t as high as organizers had wanted or planned. There was a reference to a violent demonstration in May that might have kept some of the protesters away. &# ...

A Saturday rally against the troops led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan at Travis Air Force Base nearly ended in a brawl when a military veteran physically confronted the protesters. Videotape of the incident shows that Sheehan yelled “Get out of my face” through the megaphone at the man, who slapped the device away. Other protesters