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To: Twotone

It is nice to hear from someone on our side during the Vietnam war - the one episode of Burns’ piece I saw was virtually all North Vietnam - minutes and minutes on end of how much their people suffered during the war to repair that damage done by our bombing in the North and along the Ho Chi Minh trail, and a couple of sentences about the savagery and destruction visited on the South by the Cong and North Vietnamese forces - all the low points hit as expected, like the body-count metric and burning the villages to save them. Haven’t watched another episode since. Burns may redeem himself when the time comes by including a thorough discussion of the sellout of the South by Democrats in the Senate who refused to continue funding for the war after Nixon was deposed and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese trying to escape Uncle Ho’s legacy in the South - but I doubt it.....


16 posted on 09/22/2017 11:16:50 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Intolerant in NJ
all the low points hit as expected, like the body-count metric and burning the villages to save them.
I've watched all episodes and from them I got the distinct feeling that we never won a single battle over there. So much commie BS it's sickening.
And speaking of body count - if the NVA/VC were so much better than the American forces, HTF did we kill over a MILLION of them on the battle field?
Burns sucks.
23 posted on 09/22/2017 12:11:46 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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