At the time the government lied to the American public about the status of the ongoing Vietnam War, everyone thought that we were winning the war, until the new York times published the pentagon papers which showed the American public that wasn't the case.
The violence of war and fear causes rat kiley's break down. Rat kiley tell's stories to escape the war
Oregon trail, because when settlers moved to the west they use the trail to transport their cattle.
They left Asia and traveled to Europe