View this video clip of Mr. O'Brien's interview. Listen to his stories about his time spent in Vietnam during the war and his thoughts on the Kent State Shootings. As you watch, take notes on key 'visuals' he refers to. For example, Mr. O'Brien talks about his duties "in the jungle on the Cambodian border." He also mentions names of newspapers, company battalions, something about peace talks, some sort of trail that's important and a whole host of other visuals. Search the Internet for sites that help in your understanding of these terms/places/etc...AND: find LARGE (500 x 400 or bigger) images on the web of these relevant visuals Mr. O'Brien mentions. Copy and paste the web address source of each picture in the comments of this blog post.
Get to it!!
-Mr. Hoban
in class today we saw a clip of the Mr. Bush interview. He talked about the draft lottery. There were 2 types of draft lotteries. One was that numbers represented the days of the year including the leap year. As it said on the wikipedia website the number 257 was drawn which was the day September 14. All people with that birthday would be assigned number one. They would follow this trend. Then with December months they would follow the same procedure except the order in which you were called into the army if you were called into the army was by the letters in your name. But the year 1969 with the Vietnam war had a bunch of controversy with anti voluntary war because December months had a lot of people that were called into the draft.
ReplyDeleteurl for base camps
http://bobs-rc-hangar.com/vn-photo-1/vnpic003.jpg
url for stars and stripes newspaper
http://www.ohiowarstories.org/wp/wp-content/stars_and_stripes.jpg
the stars and stripes newspaper that Mr. O'Brien talks about is the military's independent source for news in countries such as Europe and in the Middle East
Ho Chi Men Trail:
ReplyDeletehttp://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~walters/web%20104/60s%20ho%20chi%20minh%20Trail.jpg
North Vietnamese soldier:
http://www.russian-mosin-nagant.com/photos/Vietcong%20Laying%20Mine%20Oct%201968%5B1%5D.bmp.jpg
For the best eye witness accounts of the Kent State shootings by various Kent students and national guardsmen who shot students, check out the Emmy Award winning documentary, "Kent State, The Day the War Cam Home." It was just released on DVD for the upcoming 40th anniversary. In its review of the program, The Hollywood Reporter stated, "This extraordinary hour long doc is so good, so well constructed, that it can't help but leave viewers feeling as if they themselves were on the bloody scene of the Kent State carnage..." for more go to kentstatedvd.com
ReplyDeleteAmerican soldiers raiding Vietnamese base camp: http://www.vfwpost7591.org/images/LTC_moore-1965-sm.jpg
ReplyDeleteStars and stripes:
http://www.ohiowarstories.org/wp/wp-content/stars_and_stripes.jpg
picture of medic in vietnam:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/SvgYIgehHCI/AAAAAAAAGYc/ICmhFQcDL00/s400/amazing-pictures-photos-vietnam-war-005.jpg
Ho Chi Minh Trail:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.vietnamveteranministers.org/chaplain/16_tg_hcmtrailmarker.jpg
This is what is written under the photo on the website:
"A historical plaque in Vietnamese commemorates the Ho Chi Minh Trail during war time. At the bottom one sees the words "My" for American (literally it means "beautiful"), and "Nguy", an insulting term meaning puppet (referring to the South Vietnamese army.)"
Army Times:
"Resource for everything army"
"Newsweekly for United States military people and their families, federal employees, and the defense and aerospace industry."
http://www.armytimes.com/
II Field Force Headquarters:
the largest corps command in Vietnam and one of the largest in Army history
II Field Force's area of responsibility was III Corps Tactical Zone, later renamed Military Region 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/II_Field_Force,_Vietnam
Stars and Stripes:
The Independent News Source
for the U.S. Military Community
http://www.stripes.com/
http://1stcavphotog.tripod.com/images/cavalairpages/ssmast.jpg
Ladies and gentleman...boys and girls...media kids of all ages: we have our very first EVER guest "Commenter" on our little bitty blog here. And what an entry indeed, by none other than Mr. Mark Mori (or at least that's whose name is posted on our site!)--executive producer of the excellent documentary we screened in class two weeks ago!! Fantastic!! This is, indeed, what I had hoped for--our discussion appearing on someone else's radar. Neat!!
ReplyDeleteTo Mr. Mori: check out our past entries on this blog. We have been researching and discussing the events of May 4, 1970 and incorporating them into a new media arts experience that is "under development" as we speak. Please, if you will, contact us at The Hun School of Princeton. We would very much be interested in hearing your stories of producting the Kent State documentary from ten years ago.
Thank you.
Marty Hoban
Video Production & Media Arts Teacher
The Hun School of Princeton
176 Edgerstoune Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-921-7600 x2228
mhoban@hunschool.org
Coastline of Ninh Thuan:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.twip.org/photo/2009/photo-25-11-09-04-58-24.jpg
Troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Sog1.jpg
Old-Fashioned Stars and Stripes Newspaper:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/at0058_14s.jpg
Paris Peace Talks:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Vietnam_peace_agreement_signing.jpg
Nihn Thuan:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wompom.ca/vietnam/vnprovinc707.htm
11th Calvary Regiment:
http://thenewnixon.org/2009/09/11/vietnam-boots-on-the-ground-and-in-the-mud/
Seven Firefights: (Link to description of the book)
http://www.history.army.mil/books/vietnam/7-ff/FrontMatter.htm
Ho Chi Minh Trail
ReplyDeletehttp://www.psywarrior.com/HochiminhTrails4.gif
Paris peace talks
http://z.about.com/d/history1900s/1/0/y/N/viet31.jpg
http://www.viettouch.com/vietnam/vietnam_cities.html
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vietnam cities and map of region
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/timeline.htm
timeline
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/images/anti-vietnam-poster.fullsize.jpg
anit-war poster
Mr. O'Brian's task in the invasion was also called Operation Menu. In the invasion, there were approximately 40,000 Northern Vietnamese casualties. http://www.holiday-in-angkor-wat.com/invasion-of-cambodia.html