Thursday, May 24, 2007

Farmer Nguyen, The Massacre at Mai Lai, The Nun In Nin Hoa

What do these two poems and the article say about the impact of the war on the native Vietnamese?- The war was hard on them. The Vietcong would beat and torture somebody that would not give them rice or someone who would not carry their supplies for them. Innocent people were killed and their was hardly any mercy shown. For example, the United States troops would fire into a ditch that was full of dying people just to put them out of their misery.
Can you think of any other ways in which the war will impact the native Vietnamese?- The Native Vietnamese people were only fighting for their own freedom. In a lot of ways the United States was just taking their freedom away from them. The United States was doing what they felt was right to stop the spread of communism, but a lot of people thought it was wrong.

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