<P> The Vietnam War has been featured extensively in television, film, video games, and literature in the participant countries . In American popular culture, the "Crazy Vietnam Veteran", who was suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, became a common stock character after the war . </P> <P> One of the first major films based on the Vietnam War was John Wayne's pro-war film, The Green Berets (1968). Further cinematic representations were released during the 1970s and 1980s, including Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986)--based on his service in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987), Hamburger Hill (1987), and Casualties of War (1989). Later films would include We Were Soldiers (2002) and Rescue Dawn (2007). </P> <P> The war also influenced a generation of musicians and songwriters in Vietnam and the United States, both anti-war and pro / anti-communist . The band Country Joe and the Fish recorded "I - Feel - Like - I'm - Fixin' - To - Die Rag" / The "Fish" Cheer in 1965, and it became one of the most influential anti-Vietnam protest anthems . Many songwriters and musicians supported the anti-war movement, including Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Peggy Seeger, Ewan MacColl, Barbara Dane, The Critics Group, Phil Ochs, John Lennon, Nina Simone, Neil Young, Tom Paxton, Jimmy Cliff and Arlo Guthrie . </P> <P> On May 25, 2012, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation of the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War . On November 10, 2017, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War . </P>

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