Course Description: The US involvement in Vietnam was and remains controversial. At the time it was our longest war. We will cover its origins from World War II until the US ended its involvement in 1973. We will look at how the war was fought, its effect on Americans at home, those called to fight the war and those opposed to the war. We will look at tactics and weapons. How the war effected later generations and politicians to the present. We will try to answer the question as to whether the war was winnable, and could it have been avoided. We will confront the mistakes and the legacy of the war on Veterans and how we look at war today. We will also look at the music, movies, and literature relating to the war.

Course Instructor: Tom Westre is a retired public school educator with 33 years of teaching experience at the high school level. Tom received his bachelors and masters degree in education from the University of South Dakota. Tom has taught US History at the high school level for 30 years. Tom has researched the JFK assassination for over 25 years. He visited Dallas in 2013 talking to important witnesses and researchers of that event. Tom has taught several courses on the JFK assassination.
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