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However, the fact that the North Vietnamese fought with such commitment and that they were willing to sacrifice themselves in such great numbers also inspired some empathy on my part for them as well. They obviously endured tremendous hardships living for months on end in deep underground tunnels and being targeted by the most advanced and devastating weapon systems in the world by the most powerful superpower in the world. Naturally, I was horrified to see the effects of napalm on U.S. soldiers after Moore had no choice but to call in an air strike on his own position as a last-ditch effort to avoid being completely overrun by the enemy. However, at the same time, that scene also made me realize that this was only one air strike. Meanwhile, the Vietnamese forces were subjected to napalm air strikes continually for years throughout the U.S. involvement in the war...

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I realized that the horror I witnessed when it affected U.S. soldiers was the very horror inflicted by U.S. air strikes on the Vietnamese.
Finally, the movie also made me realize that for every soldier killed or wounded in battle there are families left at home who must face the devastating consequences of their loss as well. While not as graphic visually, the scenes involving Lieutenant Colonel Moore's wife intercepting the death notice telegrams were as moving to me as the actual depictions of gruesome battlefield deaths. Ultimately, I learned that my sympathies are capable of being manipulated by the choice of perspective of the filmmaker. I realized that a similar movie depicting the plight of the Vietnamese fighting off one foreign occupying force after another could have resulted in my having similar sympathies toward the North Vietnamese instead of the U.S. soldiers.

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Goldfield, D., Abbot, C., Argersinger, J., and Argersinger, P. (2005). Twentieth-Century

America: A Social and Political History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-

Prentice Hall.

Zinn, H. (2003). Voices from a People's History of the United States. New York:

Harper-Collins.

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Goldfield, D., Abbot, C., Argersinger, J., and Argersinger, P. (2005). Twentieth-Century

America: A Social and Political History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-

Prentice Hall.

Zinn, H. (2003). Voices from a People's History of the United States. New York:
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