Soldier experience shed light on America war in Vietnam

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1. Philip Caputo writes, "My mind shot back a decade, to that day we had marched into Vietnam, swaggering, confident, and full of idealism. We had believed we were there for a high moral purpose. But somehow our idealism was lost, our morals corrupted, and the purpose forgotten" (Caputo, 345). What caused this transformation in Caputo? Did Americans go through a similar transition over the course of the war? How and why?

2. Can one soldier's experience shed light on America's war in Vietnam? How does Philip Caupto's experience (from enlisting to training to deployment and throughout his time in the war) help us understand the experience of other soldiers in the conflict? What problems might using one person's story to generalize about others pose?

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