[lacrew]

I watched most of the episodes...it gets progressively worse. The interview subjects, who initially describe their own patriotism, slowly turn...and we end up learning about their own anti-war activities - and it turns out that a few of them were quite prominent in the anti-war movement.

One thing that struck me - in one episode we were treated to Jane Fonda, in North Vietnam, stating that US POWs should be executed!...and the very next day Hanoi Jane was in the news having been in Megan Kelly's show. How on Earth is she not a pariah?!? How on Earth could Kelly (who for a short while was the darling of some conservatives) sit next to her, without slapping her?

[morphing libertarian]

Hollywood has been trying to lionize Fonda the last few years. Patriotism and treason mean nothing in tinseltown. Look for some lifetime achievement awards soon.

[llevrok]

I watched most of the episodes...it gets progressively worse.

I agree. I'm about 1/2 way thru the 10 episodes and note that the painting of our troops as blood thirsty maniacs is picking up speed.

By contrast, I watched an Ollie North "War Stories" last night (from 2001) on the helicopter war. It was a refreshing break from Burns' "documentary".

[Vermont Lt]

I thought they made Jane look like a traitor.

I thought it was interesting that even the Vets who had joined the anti war movement saying that they would never forgive her.

The show did not make the deserter (not draft dodger) look like a hero. The guy was trying to say that it was the toughest decision he had to make. They hung him with his own words.

The discussion with some of the vets who were portrayed as heroes, with a balanced view of their war experiences—and then the transition to their involvement in the anti-war process was interesting. The transformation of those men was moving. People with Silver Starts and DSCs who are slowly turned against the war are not liberal hippies.