The American War of Aggression in Vietnam

Friday, July 14, 2013

 Northpoint students in front of the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), where North Vietnamese tanks entered, officially winning the "Vietnam War," which, in Vietnam, is called "The American War of Aggression."

Being an American citizen, I think that it’s good to know about the history of your country. Today when we went to a museum about the History of the Vietnam War, it seemed that most of us had little idea of what happened in the war. We learned about why the war started, America’s impact in the war and other countries’ impact in the war. At the end of the day when we discussed what we had learned, we all seemed to be interested in the stories about Agent Orange. Agent Orange was a defoliant that the American soldiers sprayed on the Vietnamese jungles because they believed that soldiers were hiding there. The poisonous gases were sprayed by planes in hopes of destroying the trees so that the soldiers couldn’t hide. But because of the harmful gases, many people then and in the future were negatively affected by it. We found that it was very important for us to learn about the history of wars so that we can learn from mistakes and educate the future generations to come.

~Arielle Abrams