This is a very biased story of the Vietnam War. It parrots the Left Wing view of the war and has little to do with what really happened. Most of the veterans that appear in the series are followers of a Lawrence, KS commie war protester. I know some of the people that appear, and they are not happy about what happened in the editing room.
The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong were not the national liberators that Ken Burns want us to believe.
At least for the most part, by the mid-80s, the Vietnamese leaders realized that Communism doesn’t work, and now Vietnam is pretty much only Communist in name.
They did a survey of countries, and they found that amongst the population, that Vietnam was actually the most pro-Capitalist country on the planet, at least amongst the population.
“The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong were not the national liberators that Ken Burns want us to believe.”
Nor that George Lucas wants us to believe, that Luke Skywalker’s Rebels are the VC and Darth and the Empire are the evil USA.
I watched a Vietnam special in which when an anti-war veteran had friends rejoicing when Saigon fell, could only state that he didn’t want THAT outcome - he had no misconceptions about what the communists were.