Vietnam in APO 96225 (response to #2 in the book)

In U.S History last year, I learned quite a bit about the war in Vietnam, far more than what I had learned just from Forrest Gump. One of thing that I thought was especially interesting was that it was the first war that had national media covering live events and such. Everyone knows war is bad, but I think the American public was really shocked to actually see how mad Vietnam was. Some people wanted to know but probably regretted asking, like the soldiers mother. Stories of dropping napalm on innocent civilians and raiding civilian houses was in part what turned the country against the war, along with the devastating casualties. This war in a foreign and obscure place against an unclear enemy dragged on for too long in the public's eyes leading to many deaths of Americans. Sound familiar?