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Compare And Contrast Vietnam War And Mental Illnesses

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War is the medicine for a bad foreign policy and with the side effects of death and mental illness. The united states joined the Vietnam due to the domino theory. The Unites States was trying to contain communism from spreading. The Vietnam war was one of the wars the United States joined that failed to stop the spread of communism. The Vietnam war brought a lot of deaths of American soldiers. Additionally, the soldiers who made back alive came back with mental illness. Mental illnesses are a common thing to get obtain when a person or a soldier is faced with a dangerous situation, and it 's not surprising that the soldiers ' mental states always tended to be on the paranoid side due to the guerrilla warfare in Vietnam. War is a game of

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