How is the Vietnam still affecting American Society?

Answer 1

In many ways.

Closure for the Vets is important because that anxiety will filter down and manifest itself in the form of questions for their great-grandchildren.

Social and Economic exchange between the two countries is still affected by old opinions.

International status of both has changed. Theirs elevated and ours diminished.

Answer 2

I think all families who lost loved ones in any war during the 20th century are still affected. I think any person who loses a loved one to a war will always be affected, especially if that is your son, daughter, spouse, best friend, etc. It stays with you.

I think the Vietnam war was the most outstanding war because of how our veterans came back and the welcome they received.

Many were called "baby killers" and "rapists" and several other ugly things. This war showed us images that we had never seen before. We saw war for what it was. WAR IS UGLY AND PEOPLE DIE. Soldiers are sometimes called to do despicable things such as kill babies and women.

This is why war should be a last resort. How can a person who is raised to tell the difference between right and wrong and to treat people with respect go to another country and torture or kill another person they have never met?

It's possible that if they met under different circumstances, they would be friends.

This is why people should question their government. Question why we are really in Iraq.

Is it really to find the terrorists or is it to fatten Haliburton's wallets with blood-stained dollars?

Question your government. The US Constitution allows you freedom of speech; Exercise your rights!

Answer 3

Maybe once the American psyche gets over the events of the WAR IN Vietnam, a director will then film the war in the same fashion that Clint Eastwood filmed 'Flags Of Our Fathers' and 'Letters From Iwo Jima.' I for one look forward to seeing the conflict from both sides - not just the American 'grunts' humping it in the boonies.

Answer 4

The fact that it was a terrible war, (not saying that there's a such thing as a good war), it hit a lot of people pretty hard and we lost a lot of young people. Luckily my uncles on both sides of my family came back alive and I feel that I'm the only one that can approach them, I do sense emotion when the subject is brought up though.

Answer 5

I have to read questions like this. Plus every time we go to war now, everyone says "great another vietnam" and we will never live down that loss.

Answer 6

with the country very much shocked and paralyzed by skill of the Vietnam conflict, hundreds of yank infants confirmed their situation by campus rallies, antiwar demonstrations, and concert events for peace. lots of the country's infants have been strongly against the conflict happening midway international, wherein their fathers, brothers, and husbands have been demise.

Answer 7

Many families still live without closure and that effects a person's life forever

Answer 8

Because it was a lost war.

Answer 9

Because up here in Canada, we're still laughing at you.

Answer 10

people use it (wrongly) as a reason for staying in Iraq...we can't cut and run...boo hoo hoo