…Vietnam War… Marcus Flowers

Vietnam War Weapons “Aircraft Bell AH-1 HueyCobra / Cobra Hydra 70 rockets, 20mm (.80 caliber) cannon and a 7.62mm (.30 caliber) machine gun. Bell OH-58 Kiowa Hellfire anti-tank missiles, Stinger air-to-air missiles, gun pods in 7.62mm (.30 caliber) or 12.7mm (.50 caliber) Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) 7.62mm miniguns mounts, 2-, 7-, or 19-shot 2.75" rocket pods and 7.62mm machine guns in quad-mountings.”

Draft Time “President Lyndon B. Johnson commits American ground troops to Vietnam in Draft calls go from 100,000 in 1964, to 400,000 in Draftees made up the bulk of infantry riflemen in Vietnam (88 percent by 1969). Draftees accounted for more than half the battle deaths. The Draft was unfair and racist. It fell disproportionately upon working-class youths and blacks.”

Opposition draft “Opposition mounted and a draft resistance movement grew in strength. There were demonstrations, draft-card burnings, sit-ins, break-ins and destruction of records. Faced with well over 100,000 apparent draft offenders, the government indicted 22,500 persons, of whom 8,800 were convicted and 4,000 imprisoned. The most common form of draft "protest" was evasion million received legal exemptions or deferments. 570,000 evaded the draft illegally.”

American Vietnam War Casualty Statistics KIA; Died in Combat 38,502 KIA; Died of Wounds 5,264 KIA; Died while Missing 3,524 POW; Death while Captured 116 Non-Hostile; Other Causes 7,458 Non-Hostile; Death from Illness or Injury 1,978 Non-Hostile; Died while Missing 1,351 Totals 58,193

Vietnam War Summary The Vietnam War was a direct successor to the French Indochina War. It was referred to the First Indochina War. The leader of was Ho Chi Minh. They were fighting Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Vietnam War Veterans Most of the veterans are unable to leave the trauma behind. They had problems with lots of extremely problems with their families. The communities didn’t know had to handle them. They were acting out. Every time they heard a bell ringing they would hide under the bed or tables.

Vietnam War Memorial They have the Vietnam wall in Washington D.C. It has everyone's name on it that has died or had gone missing. This place has been visited over hundreds of times. The memorial had been made by the Vietnam vets.

Diseases Agent Orange- Was a bomb that was dropped on the Vietnam people and the emery. “Between 1961 and 1971 US forces sprayed large tracts of Viet Nam with about 80 million liters of defoliants and herbicides containing about 336kg of dioxin”

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