Platoon

Platoon

          The movie Platoon was a movie about the Vietnam War and the struggles that the United States faced at the time. They were divided between anti war protesters, black power groups, and the average US citizen. The United States interviened in Vietnam because of the heavy Soviet influence. They tried to turn Vietnam into a communist country and the United States tried to stop it. The war lasted 12 years and was mostly caught by black men, or poor men. The people who start the war are never the ones to fight it. Many found this unfair, and after they saw all of the videos of the crimes Americsn soldiers committed, they became anti war and started to protest. The United States started to become a nation divided for a second time. One of the reasons why the Vietnam war was so horrible was because the Americsns could not recognize a regular civilian from an enemy. They would come into an innocent looking town and find weapons. So the had to kill them because they could be part of the vc. When people in the Uniged States saw the videos it made them outraged, and within a few years, the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam.