contextualizing

i chose to look up the Vietnam war for my contextualizing of O'Brien's story.
i looked at the Vietnam war on Wikipedia and i think it it the most cited article i have ever read on Wikipedia with over 214 sources. i also looked up draft dodgers on Wikipedia and read about the things that people did to avoid the draft. there were a few places in each article that had citation needed and i skipped over those parts. i thought that because the wiki articles were so well cited and i was able to go to the places that the article cited. this information really helped enhance my primary understanding of the text because it lays a foundation of the history of the period and the attitudes of the time.