Battlers During The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a protracted conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It was called the "American War" in Vietnam. Anti-war opinion increased in the US from the mid-1960s on, with rallies, teach-ins, and other forms of demonstration. The Vietnam War was the longest in U.S. history, the longest to have been happening until the Afghanistan, war came into picture many years later. Which was just as brutal as this one but not that similar. Different terrain ,modern a time. The war's cast of battlers was an extremely diverse and extensive one, featuring the U.S., Europe, Australia, and …show more content…
Now there is no problem with this on the surface but they fought for a country that treated them as second class citizens. They sent those soldiers to die and that caused more than displeasure to many. All this also helped to the foundation of the Black Panthers group, which founded during the times of war on 1966. They weren't exactly founded due to the injustice brought by the war, but it was a big factor. Black Panthers fought for the rights they had to actually be respected by everyone, they weren't a very popular group, called extremist but they really weren't. Now we'll talk of the casualties of the war, how African American despite having all the rights of U.S. citizens, still weren't treated equally and the conclusion of this controversial and hypocrite …show more content…
Not to mention the trauma from the shellshock and PTSD, this is in every war with no exception. African Americans often did supply a disproportionate number of combat troops, a high percentage of whom had voluntarily enlisted. Although they made up less than 10 percent of American men in arms and about 13 percent of the U.S. population between 1961 and 1966, they accounted for almost 20 percent of all combat-related deaths in Vietnam during that period .It is also documented that the Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks people to ever to serve in an American war, this was terrible to the eyes of African American since at the core of everything, they were sending them to die in this

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