[Chainmail]

Nothing at all new about this series: same old, same old. All they show is the Left's version of history - the South Vietnamese government was inept and corrupt, the enemy were motivated to "reunify" Vietnam (which had never been a single country), and all they show are the battles where we came out poorly.

They'll never show us winning - like Operation Hastings in '66 where we annihilated the NVA 308B Division - and they'll never interview veterans like me who knew exactly why were there, what we had to do, and was willing to suffer what I needed to, to get the job done. They will never show the refugees coming to us rather than the enemy and they'll definitely never discuss the communist pro-enemy connections of the leadership of the "antiwar" movement.

[oh8eleven]

They'll never show us winning - like Operation Hastings in '66 where we annihilated the NVA 308B Division
I had just graduated HS and this operation gave me the impetus to enlist a few days later (that and a draft notice that was headed to my mailbox :)
I can't wait to see how he handles the Tet Offensive.

[RedMonqey]

The South Vietnamese government was inept and corrupt.

[kabar]

All they show is the Left's version of history - the South Vietnamese government was inept and corrupt, the enemy were motivated to "reunify" Vietnam (which had never been a single country), and all they show are the battles where we came out poorly.

The South Vietnamese fought almost two years after we left. It was the pulling of our military assistance from the ARVN and the failure to do anything about the North Vietnamese violation of the peace agreement that led to the downfall of South Vietnam.

Here is one of the best references on the chronology of the Vietnam War.

I spent a year in-country 1967-68 and nine months off the coast on an LPH. I refuse to watch anything that Burns produces. He is not a real historian, but rather, a leftist revisionist.

[Yardstick]

Vietnam had never been a single country? I had no idea that was the case.