[lacrew]

One of the people featured interested me, and I Googled him for information. What I found were stories that described how he had 'tried out' to be in the film, thought he would make the cut, would make a book deal if he was, etc...

So I learned that the very first editorial input was the choosing of the interview subjects. And it turns out that so many of them have made a life's work out of the bad parts of the war. Very few of the interview subjects had no prior activism/published writings about the war...ie very few 'ordinary every day soldiers' who quietly returned to private civilian life, without pursuing an agenda.

[Vermont Lt]

And in 500 years there will only be the written words of academics and old men.

Vietnam is not different from any other war.

Most warriors do their job. Then they come home.