Please answer one of the following questions in an essay of about 750 words. You are welcome to use information from lecture or other sources but the bulk of this paper should focus on the book.
The essay should be constructed using formal essay guidelines (12 pt Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, double spaced) and part of your grade will depend on grammar, spelling, and mechanics. Include which question youve answered at the top where you include your name. Be sure to use citations whenever you include information that is neither common knowledge nor your own. Remember that papers with improper citations will be penalized severely. You should use parenthetical citations when necessary the right format is (author, page number) for the book or (Sheflin, lecture title) if you use something from class. You do not need a bibliography or works cited page UNLESS you use sources from outside our course. If you do then use a parenthetical citation in the body of the paper and include the source information at the end.
Philip Caputo writes, My mind shot back a decade, to that day we had marched into Vietnam, swaggering, confident, and full of idealism. We had believed we were there for a high moral purpose. But somehow our idealism was lost, our morals corrupted, and the purpose forgotten” (Caputo, 345). What caused this transformation in Caputo? Did Americans go through a similar transition over the course of the war? How and why?
Can one soldier’s experience shed light on America’s war in Vietnam? How does Philip Caputo’s experience (from enlisting to training to deployment and throughout his time in the war) help us understand the experience of other soldiers in the conflict? What problems might using one person’s story to generalize about others pose?
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