Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Name: Per:
Video Discussion
Instructions: In complete, well written sentences and clear paragraphs, answer the following questions. Think about your answers before you begin to write. Staple this sheet to your answers.
1. Do all of the letters speak of the Vietnam War in the same way? Explain.
2. Many of the letters and film scenes vary in “feel” and tone. Why?
3. Who was the average American G.I.? What was their experience in Vietnam?
4. In one segment of the film, they show you a “Grunts Vocabulary Primer (lesson)”. Why is this vocabulary important to understanding the soldier’s role in Vietnam, the jobs they did and the changes in the soldiers themselves?
5. Many soldiers express conflicting feelings about Vietnam. Explain.
6. The scenes of the men at their bases… what might explain their “less than soldierly” behavior?
7. What soldiers fought for in Vietnam often depended on when they “shipped out” or how long they were “in country”. What could explain this?
8. What is Lyndon Johnson’s response to the Tet Offensive?
9. How is music important to this film? How is music important to the soldiers and the history of the Vietnam War itself?
10. Critique the film. What did you think of the film? Why do you feel this way?
Statistical Analysis/Evidence: When you see the screens that will present the following information, copy it into the table below. When you are done, create a line graph to represent the data.
|Year |U. S. Troops in Vietnam |Killed in Action |Wounded in Action (to Date) |
| | |(to date) | |
|Dec 31, 1965 | | | |
|Dec 31, 1966 | | | |
|Dec 31, 1967 | | | |
|Dec 31, 1968 | | | |
|Dec 31, 1969 | | | |
|End of War Total Dead | | | |
|1975 | | | |
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