“Vann and other Americans in Vietnam in that first year: they were fighting now and someday they would triumph and make this a better country.” This is why we were there right, to stop the threat of communism and to spread capitalism. Whether it was John Wayne in “The Green Berets” or the novel “A Bright Shining Lie” by Neil Sheehan, the soldiers and military thought of it as a righteousness war. Both John Wayne and John Paul Vann wanted to be in the war. To show this Neil Sheehan wrote this about John Paul Vann: “In his eagerness to go to war, he had forgotten to have his passport renewed.” Both men also prided themselves on never letting a challenge defeat them. Wayne and Vann were both for the war, but they had every different
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