What do I know of the Vietnam War

               I have heard the name Vietnam War lots of times, yet I still didn't know anything about it. For me I didn't need a reason to accept or deny if the war should have happened. I will never say that and I know that wars like this happen because us humans tend to be inclined to violence and to do wars for the most ridiculous of the reasons: color, religion, beliefs, among other. As other classmates did to fill a little space of the chart about what he know form the Vietnam War, I only wrote that it took place in Vietnam and the U.S. was involved. Today things were different because we learned something about the Vietnam War—more than any history teacher had taught me.

               I learned why there was such a big fuss about the Vietnam War, people knew what has really happening because they could sit and see through TVs the killing that was taking place. Because people didn't want to enlist in the army and fight, there was a raffle by birthday in which the winner of the raffle has to participate in the war. Poor and middle class young men were the ones that were most likely to have to enlist because the rich could afford to go to college (if you were in collage you don’t have to enlist) or to move to Canada were they were safe. Many young men that could have a good future were sent to die in front lines. For the first time in many years people really knew what was happening in the battle field instead of the propaganda given by the government.

               The saddest part for me was to learn that the only reason why this war took place was because Vietnam was dividing into a capitalist part and into a communist part. The leader of the communist part, Ho Chi Minh, was very nice and liked by the people but the leader in the capitalist part was a dictator that did what was good for him. This made the communist party stronger because more people of the capitalist side moves to be free form dictatorship but were allowed to practice their believes, no need to convert to communist. The U.S. got involved in this war because they thought communism was horrible and they couldn’t permit another country to practice this. This is caused by the domino effect belief that if Vietnam practiced communism everyone will start practicing communism. At the end most of Vietnam joined to attack the U.S. and used guerilla warfare to win. The U.S. retreads at the end because it was costly and say that it was helpless.