What was the effect of the Vietnam War on the Vietnamese people?
The Vietnamese people had endured the French occupation, then the French fighting, then the Japanese occupation (commencing in 1941-WWII), then the Japanese fighting (which ended in 1945-end of WWII), then the commencement of the North & South fighting that began to boil in 1955, then up thru 1961 (Special Forces-Green Beret entry), up thru 1965 (US regular troops), then up thru 1975 when the South was conquered by the North. What were the effects on them? They all became hardened people, determined to survive at all costs. Generations of families had been born and raised under the scream of artillery (cannon shell’s make a high pitched noise when they fly through the air), and the thunder of bombs (a 1,000 pound bomb sounds like a “Thunder Clap” during a storm)…they learned to live with it.
