Vietnam War Memory Analysis

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Manuel Amado
Professor Andrea Klimt
SOA 344-02 Cultures of Memory
Vietnam Memory Interview

The Vietnam war was an unnecessary war if you ask me. The Vietnam War was a vicious war that affected millions of people. Like all wars starts because there is a difference in people's opinions. The Vietnam war started because France and a Vietnam leader, Ho Chi Minh, had a difference in opinion about the type of government Vietnam should have. The war began in 1950s through 1970s. After the rise of power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in Northern Vietnam. You get a lot of different thoughts on how, what, why the war started.
When asked about the war you get a lot of different opinions about the Vietnam war. I interviewed a college
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First thing I asked was what can you tell me about the Vietnam war? Since he was born some years after the war, so everything he knows he said he had learned in school, books he read for school, and Hollywood movies. From his knowledge he said that the Vietnam war was a United States vs Vietnam but not Vietnam vs the United States. He says this because it was a war fought in Vietnam, at no point of time there were Vietnamese soldiers invading the United States. Vietnam was on the defense and the US was offense. It was about communism; the US did not want a communism small country on the rise. The US was a superpower country, so for a small country like Vietnam to fight off against France and successfully beat them was a threat to the United States a democratic Country. So to him this war was more about democracy fighting a small communist who stood up against a big democrat. It is known as the domino theory, which governed much of U.S. foreign …show more content…
These films to him, addressed several different problems that the Vietnam war produced on both America and Vietnam itself. For example, films like the Deer Hunter and Rambo looked at the war's effect on the soldiers both during and after the conflict. However, films like Apocalypse Now and Platoon, their views are at the war's moral stupidity and the insanity of the American government during the time and the effect on the Vietnamese people and the nation of Vietnam yet also at points the films examine the soldiers state of mind as seen by the central character Chris Taylor in Platoon and Willard in apocalypse Now. Also it can be seen that a central theme ran through the post-Vietnam film industry a theme that the war was wrong and ultimately a failure and that American international intervention was a mistake in the Indochina