Posted on 07/14/2018 12:04:36 PM PDT by eastforker
Ken Burns and Lynn Novicks ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sidesAmericans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. THE VIETNAM WAR features more than 100 iconic musical recordings from greatest artists of the era and haunting original music from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as well as the Silk Road Ensemble featuring Yo-Yo Ma.
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LMAO
The old VC soldiers that I know are every bit as pro American as are the old ARVNs and their children.
Sinh Café or one of the copycats is an excellent way to travel if you want to see the country. I see you did as I observed years ago. Go to Việt Nam and spend some time away from the Tourist hotels and you will go home and be like a Việt Kiều- sending money to or raising money for folks in Việt Nam.
I’m surprised he admitted it to you; you have to wonder what those people felt when images of those people fleeing splashed across the screen - were they all capitalist oppressors (including the women and children)?
I believe that; the hard left has hijacked “the stupid” and have them marching in the streets without a clue - but it makes them “good”...
Sounds good - though I’d try to avoid the DC area (Fairfax County?). Too far south is too hot; too far north is too cold. Like Goldilocks, I’d like it just right...
When I went back in 2000, I tried to find one particular VC: on my last day in Vietnam, he was scouting for a VC company early in the morning and when we spotted him, I shot him in the hand.
He was older - maybe 35 or 40 - and when we got up to him, we disarmed him and I felt bad that he was in so much pain and that he was scared. I took a bandage from my medical kit and wrapped up his hand and then lit a cigarette and gave it to him to show him that we weren't going to kill him.
I kept him with me as we approached where we believed that a VC company was ahead of us. We caught up with them and the firefight started as soon as they saw us.
I was shot while I was carrying another Marine who had been wounded and my VC prisoner helped me with a tourniquet and when the medevac helicopter landed, he helped carry me to it. I remember him waving to me, with his bandaged hand, as we lifted off.
Always hoped I'd find him again, see how he was doing, buy him dinner - but nobody around those villages knew who he was.
Tell me how you treated the Montagnards? We never should have allowed one sad, sorry, Viet into America. You plus the regular unit GI’s and Marines have no idea of the road runner or other all Viet teams I and other SOG FOB’s inserted.
A Cholon Cowboy. Wow. A dear friend went there to hire an all Nung recon team under him and an SF NCO. He is MIA. MAJ(then 1LT) Harold Kroske. How did a pilot come from Cholon or did you fly commercially?
1,000 meters is way out there for an old Vietnam type. I went to the range at Fort Campbell with a retired SF MSG. He had one of those Quigley down under rifles. That Shiloh Sharps in 45-110 was surprising to me as was his sniper training. I mention his sniper training as SF did not have that in 67-75. He explained all the updates in training to me. He was firing past 1,000 meters. I could not see very well as my glasses were not up to date. 400 meters was further then I ever shot in war. 100-200 was max.
Where I was in Vietnam we seemed to have two engagement ranges: 5 meters and 500 meters! (lots of dense treelines and open rice paddies) I took a shot at a sniper at 600m (M-14) and missed him by just a couple of feet and scared him off. I did take on another at 1,500 meters with a .50 caliber machine gun firing single shot from a tripod and locked into a T&E while a Staff Sergeant spotted for me. Got him on my fifth shot. He made the mistake of hiding behind a concrete gravestone.
“The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong were not the national liberators that Ken Burns want us to believe.
Nor that George Lucas wants us to believe, that Luke Skywalkers Rebels are the VC and Darth and the Empire are the evil USA.”
No kidding about that last bit. Lucas’ basis for the Rebel and Empire is also the reason why I’m rooting for the latter right now (and I’m not too happy with this, since I normally make it a rule of mine to NEVER root for villains, with Lucas essentially forcing me to break that rule. Will never forgive Lucas for his trickery, which ruined Star Wars for me in such a manner that not even the Prequel Trilogy or his edited Original Trilogy could compare. He’s even WORSE than Ken Burns in that regard).
And honestly, I have zero plans on watching the documentary, especially after having read up on various stuff that make clear he’s spewing the same old leftist propaganda. America never lost the war, our victory, heck, our South Vietnamese allies’ victory for that matter, was stolen from us. That said, I would like to see AIM’s documentary about the war that was made in response to Burns’ documentary.
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