And the Carl Vinson docked in Da Nang in March.
It's a very, very different place now.
Posted on 07/14/2018 12:04:36 PM PDT by eastforker
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s 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 sides—Americans 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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The 1979 VN war with China was known as “dirty commies fighting filthy commies fighting rotten commies”.
I think it was less about Cambodia and more Vietnamese nationalism. China occupied Vietnam for more than a thousand years and it’s been a thousand more years since they drove the Chinese out in the 13th century.
Yes, Vietnam still hates China. Check out the South China Sea; there could be yet another regional war.
Burns' Civil War was good and watchable. I tried a couple other of his efforts but had to quit. In his baseball series there was way too much emphasis on the racism in the United States without equal emphasis on what is good and great about this country and what has improved since the Civil War.
I suspect Vietnam is, again, be what is wrong with the United States while ignoring the Stalinism of Ho Chi Minh.
Try this one, you might be surprised.
Nope. It’s right on. We were lied to since Ike. LBJ wanted to save face by jumping in w both feet. Kennedy would have done the same.
And the Carl Vinson docked in Da Nang in March.
It's a very, very different place now.
I know Obama was bad, but he was a saint compared to Wilson. By far the worst President we’ve ever had.
Good. I was guessing since it was PBS. I’ll watch.
Won re-election in November 1916 on the slogan 'He Kept Us Out of War'.
In April 1917 he declared war...
And in reality Wilson set race relations back decades. The most racist President, ever.
And said we were neutral before when we really weren’t, otherwise we would have demanded Britain to stop their Naval Blockade of Germany, or else we wouldn’t ship any goods to them. Their criminal blockade of Germany put US ships at risk, and ultimately dragged us into the war.
We financed the British and French war effort meaning if they lost they'd probably default.
Which the French did anyway.
Not exactly “Neutrality”, is it?
Yep, wasn’t impressed. Neither were any of the Vietnam veterans I spoke with about it. They were as mad as I was with what he left out. Telling partial truths is a lie on its face.
What did he leave out?
But he wanted France out of his country.
Only as a means to an end.
Too busy to go into it right now.
Hear the sounds some times and sometimes the smells, but am retired now and don't regret a thing..
i watched a little bit of this when it was on PBS as the Vietnam War is something i studied and read tons about...the episode I watched Burns spent two minutes on the purposeful violence of the anti-war movement including the bombs they set off around the nation and 30 minutes on the Kent State shooting and what could only be called an accidental death..
Which is good and made you a rarity for those days.
I was pretty well informed too, I guess, since I was involved in direct combat for a significant period. Nothing like seeing it in person to clarify one's thoughts.
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