Guns and Butter

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This paper shows how the public in the United States was generally against the war in Vietnam and how the youth returning from the war (if they did) felt like the pawns of the government's war machine. It analyzes the history of the conflict and how the forces ended up being stuck in Vietnam for so long.

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"Jungles of Asia were only one front of a war that tore apart not only the divided nation of Vietnam, but ripped through the generations and cities of America as well. By the time it ended, an entire generation of young people considered themselves to be the sacrificial lambs of international politics, merely the bloodied and bruised currency that the Grown Ups exchanged in their search for power. By the time it ended, they had been been drafted and killed, beaten on the fields of battle and in the streets of their cities, wracked by post-traumatic conscience and shattered by the brutalization of daily experience. And they learned, inescapably, returning home or waiting for loved ones, that they had suffered all this for nothing more than the political machinations of old men. "

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