Soldiers'+Daily+Lives

The daily lives of the soldiers were not exactly the same every day. One day they could be fighting, and another they could be just playing around.

Sometimes soliders would make routine visits into villages to help the local Vietnamese. These villages benifited greatly from the vistis, because it gave access to basic madical treatment that they wouldn't have without the soilders.





=Becoming Wounded =

**If a soldier was wounded they were often flown out to a medical unit. Sometimes these units were in underground bunkers. The soldiers stayed there until their condition stabilized. This could take months, so these soldiers daily lives were spent underground **.

Soldiers descibed the bond forged with fellow soldiers, and how even today they feel sadness for the comrades that lost their lives. Many soldiers felt guilty that they lived while so many people died, and they are still haunted by those thoughts today. [|These feeling were documented in the PBS documentary Vietnam: Soldiers' Stories]. There have also been many other movies created that have tried to captivate the viewers and let them feel what the soldiers felt. The soldiers also used letters to express their feeling to people. Many soldiers wrote home to keep in touch with the civilization they left behind. //Dear Amaerica: Letters from Home// is a book thay has many letters with personal, primary source, experiences that tell us so much about the daily lives soldiers had in Vietnam.

= Different Types of Soldiers: = There were many different types of Soldiers, all of which had different daily routines. One of these types were the Grunts.  Even though you may not think of very many women soldiers, there were women on both the frontlines , and on the home front . Another soldier who experienced a very different war, were the POW's or  prisoners of war <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">.