9. The organization had a purpose: “It was organized to voice the growing opposition among returning servicemen and women to the still-raging war in Indochina”
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15. Effects of the War Long-term effects (Narcotics) “The indisputable fact was that by late 1970 heroin use was emerging as a major health issue among U.S. servicemen, with some medics reporting that as many as 10% of GIs in some units were regular heroin users by the end of 1970.”
16. Effects of the War Long-term effects (Narcotics) “The penetration of cheap drugs into U.S. military in Vietnam also led to a rapid increase in drug importation into Australia, thanks in part to the thriving Rest and Recreation circuit, with some U.S. personnel sent to Sydney on R&R leave being used as drug "mules”.”
17. Effects of the War Long-term effects (Government) - The Vietnam War also had dramatic effects on the people living in Vietnam, South Vietnam in particular. - With North Vietnam the victor, South Vietnam was forced to submit to the communist rule of the North.
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22. Literary works GOING AFTER CACCIATO In Going After Cacciato, Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien tells the story of Paul Berlin, a newcomer to Vietnam who fantasizes that his squad goes all the way to Paris, France, in pursuit of an AWOL soldier.
23. FALLEN ANGELS Richie Perry, a 17-year-old Harlem youth, describes his harrowing tour of duty in Vietnam in Walter Dean Myers’s novel Fallen Angels. A RUMOR OF WAR In A Rumor of War, considered to be among the best nonfiction accounts of the war, former marine Philip Caputo reflects on his years as a soldier in Vietnam.