VIETNAM WAR
The Vietnam war .77$ per issue
Good Morning Vietnam! WRITTEN BY VIETCONG JAMESON ALLING MIA’S MRS HOLLANDS IMPORTANT PEOPLE [1]
VIETNAM November 1st 1955-April 30th 1975
Vietnam war The Vietnam War lasted from 1955 to 1975
VIETNAM WAR the Vietnam War Was fought between the US and the Vietnamese during 1955 and 1975
The Vietnam war, (Or known to the
hope that the soldiers can return.
Vietnamese, the War against America) was a long and dangerous war. More than 58000 American soldiers. 250000 Vietnamese soldiers died in this war. in a total, 83000 soldiers died. A MIA is a missing in action. those are sent to the families of soldiers when they are missing. Some people think the MIAs they sent where really just POW (prisoners of war) because they its was much harder to deal with an POW than a MIA. A MIA leaves a little bit of hope
Lighters In Vietnam, they soldiers had lighters, and some had special engraved things on them, such as funny/meaningful sayings
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Below is a civilian who is putting flowers in the barrels of the rifles the soldiers are holding, to show peace. Other pictures are memorials to the soldiers whom lost their lives whilst fighting
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VIETCONG/ IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Vietcong. The Vietcong was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War, and emerged on the winning side. During the war, communists and anti-war spokesmen insisted the vietcong was an insurgency indigenous to the South. Many of the VietCong core members were "regroupees", southern Viet Minh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord.
John F. Kennedy The 35th U.S. president, whose decision to send U.S. “military advisors� into Vietnam in 1962 marked the first official U.S. involvement in the country.
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Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels. New York: Scholastic, 1988. Print. "Vietnam War." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015.
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1. Hooch
Part of Speech (noun, verb, adj)
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Noun
Shelter
19 “Commanding officers hooch”
2. Alfa
First letter in the military alphabet
Its military alphabet
3. RPG
Noun
Rocket propelled grenade
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They used them in wars
4.boonies
noun
isolated country
29 “we should be in the boonies they were travelling to by now.” places like that alot
5.latrine
noun
Bathroom
31 “They went off looking for a latrine”
6. Vietcong
noun
Vietnamese soldier
“They grabbed the vietcong
they were fighting the Vietcong
and threw him in the truck” 47 7. SAG
American labour union
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“We take all these little slant eyes, give em SAG cards and put em to work” 49
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Poisonous combustible chemicals
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