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Psychological Effect of the Vietnam War

Literary Lens - Feminist

Mary Anne Bell

"Tall big-boned blond. She had long white legs and blue eyes and a complexion like strawberry ice cream. Very friendly, too." (89)

By: John Chiong

"No cosmetics, no fingernail filing. She stopped wearing jewelry, cut her hair short. Hygiene became a matter of small consequence." (94)

"He had trouble recognizing her. She wore a bush hat and filthy green fatigues; carried the M-16; face black with charcoal." (98)

"And then one morning, Mary Anne walked off into the mountains and did not come back."

"She had crossed to other side. She was part of the land. She was ready for the kill." (110)

"Fossie began making arrangements to send her home. At first Marry Anne seemed to accept it, but...fell into a restless gloom." (100)

Summary

PTSD

"A psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event" (American Psychiatric Association)

Hyperarousal

Numbed Emotional State

Norman Bowker

Rat Kiley

"She had her house and her new husband, and there was nothing he could say to her. The town seemed remote somehow." (133)

"We came across a baby water buffalo...He stepped back and shot it through the right knee...he shot it in the hindquarters and in the little hump...he put the rifle muzzle up against the mouth." (75)

"Five fifty-five, he decided-six o'clock, tops. " (138)

"It was his eighth revolution around the lake." (140)

"Wacky talk, too. Big giant killer bugs he'd say, bugs that were chemically altered by napalm and defoliants...He claimed the bugs were personally after his ass." (209)

"there's no place to go. Not just in this lousy little town. In general. My life, I mean." (150)

"A good war story, he thought, but it was not a war for war stories, nor for talk of valor, and nobody in town wanted to know about the terrible stink." (143)

Fourth Generation Warfare

Crash Course US History - Vietnam War

"The next morning he shot himself." (212)

"If you don't want to say more -" [Father]

"I do want to..." (136)

Coping Mechanisms - Drug Use

"Based on dispersion and communications that remove the battle front entirely; the goal is collapsing the enemy internally rather than physically destroying him."

‘One-third, One-third, One-third’

1/3 are heavy drinkers

1/3 are drinkers and marijuana users

1/3 are users of hallucinogens, uppers and downers, and opiates.

Ted Lavender

"Like when Ted Lavender went too heavy on the tranquilizers. 'How's the war today?' somebody would say, and Lavender would give a soft, spacey smiley and say 'Mellow man...a nice mellow war."(32)

Guerrilla Warfare

1968-1972

"Bad War"

"And like the time we enlisted an old poppa-san to guide us through the mine fields." (32)

"Most of the hamlet had burned down, including her house..." (129)

"The guys can't cope. They lose it. They get arty and gunships. They call in airstrikes." (71)

Lack of Clearly Defined Objectives

Omnipresence of Death

Major Battles - WWI vs. Vietnam War

"If you weren't humping [walking], you were waiting. I remember the monotony. Digging foxholes. Slapping mosquitos. The sun and heat..." (32)

"...right then, Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing." (66)

"They'd march north for a time, then east, then north, skirting the villages." (210)

"Then he took a peculiar half step, moving from shade into bright sunlight, and the booby-trapped 105 round blew him." (79)

"...that's all they do, they [soldiers] lie there for seven straight days and just listen." (69)

"Can't even talk to each other." (70)

Relieve Traumatic Events Through Flashbacks

Lieutenant Jimmy Cross

"...While Kiowa explained how Lavender died, Lieutenant Cross found himself trembling. ...All he could do was dig..., when it was full dark, he sat at the bottom of his fox hold and wept." (16)

"...Lavender's death. It was something that would never go away, he said quietly." (26)

"Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head.." (2)

Until he was shot, Ted Lavender..." (3)

"But Ted Lavender, who was scared... when he was shot and killed" (6)

"Before Lavender died..." (7)

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