Speech On Vietnam War

History Task 2 – Anti-war Speech
The Vietnam war has gone on for too long! How many more fellow citizens must die before this war ends? How much more money is the government going to pour down the drain in attempt to win this war? You and me. We both know the horrific events taking place in Vietnam as we speak! We watch these events unfold in our very own homes on the television screen. We must bring our troops home alive and well for the sake of both our nation and Vietnam.
The war originated from Ho Chi Minh’s simple recruitment of Viet Minh which was formed with the intention to rid Vietnam of the Japanese who had previously invaded Vietnam under the French rule. He was successful in fighting off the Japanese and declared Vietnam’s independence
intervention in Vietnam took place in 1963. However, the antiwar movements were not of great scale until two years later, when President Lyndon B. Johnson had ordered massive U.S. military intervention and the bombing of North Vietnam. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had been the first to organise a national antiwar demonstration in Washington where 20,000 people attended in 1965. As the war expanded with over 400,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam by 1967, antiwar movements also began to grow and attracted even more support from both on and off the campuses. The tactics of protest used were of a diverse range including legal demonstrations, grassroots organising, congressional lobbying, electoral challenges, civil disobedience, draft resistance, self-immolations, political violence. Some peace activists even travelled to North Vietnam to show their resistance against the Vietnam
It is a war where The Leader of Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, was simply fighting for the freedom of Vietnam, so that they would no longer be governed by foreign powers and for Vietnam to be reunify as one whole nation. He believed that he could achieve these goals of freedom and reunification through the sole ideology of Communism. Our intervention may have even caused more commotion and even the loss of more lives. Not only did we suffer as America had losses of around 50 000 as of this year and many more injured civilians of Vietnam also faced the consequences of our involvement. This can be seen in the My Lai massacre which happen quite recently where our troops murdered innocent civilians and even sexually assaulted young women of the village. It is clear that our involvement was indeed a mistake as our fear of communism spreading and our desire to stop the expansion was an issue we had assumed. Ho had good intentions for Vietnam as a nation and America’s intervention had disturbed this. Lives were unnecessarily lost from both sides and its time we as citizens of America brought this to an end to save lives. And let Vietnam choose their own path as they go forth into the future whether they do become a Communist nation or not it is not our choice for in a world of freedom it is