BLOG #7

The Vietnam War occurred from 1959- 1975. When I think of the Vietnam War, I picture hippies, since that is what people were and acted like during that time period. The main slogans were Make Peace Not War and Make Love Not War. The similarity between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is that not everyone was for the wars. For both wars, we thought our soldiers should be sent home from war a long time ago. I asked my Grandma Mary who is 91 how she felt about both wars, since she lived through them. She explained that the Vietnam War felt like it was never going to end, and so does the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also people argue that the United States should never have gotten into these wars in the first place. Our soldiers should be brought home to their families!