Explain why the United States was in the Vietnam War and why it led to such polarization in the country.

In a short essay respond to the following prompt:

Explain why the United States was in the Vietnam War and why it led to such polarization in the country.

You must support your argument in this essay by using at least three of the following assigned class sources:
Robert Cagle, One Vet Remembers
War Stories as Told by the Combatants, collected (1981)
Wrong, Rambo! A Vietnam Veteran Looks Back (1985)
Oliver Stone, director, Platoon (1986)

For each of the 3 documents: make sure to tell who the author is and why they are important, analyze the document, and give historical context. The History Context are the notes that were taken.