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PostPosted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 1:23 pm 
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I didn't know that about DT. Thought he was younger than that. Odd situation for a son or daughter, not really knowing.


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Watched episode 1 over the weekend. That was a metric shit-ton of info crammed into 2 hours. VERY interesting and very well-done. I look forward to watching more.

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Gonna pass on this. Vietnam War doesn't interest me enough to dedicate the number of hours needed to watch a Ken Burns doc.

Spoiler: We don't even fucking win.

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I am through 4 episodes. Too depressing to take in massive quantities.

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I've got 10 of these on my DVR, should I bother?

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shirtless driver wrote:
I've got 10 of these on my DVR, should I bother?

Shakes is right. You know the outcome.
Hatchetman is right, hard to take in Mass quantities.
Wdelaney is right. Tons of info. Tons. The reason to watch is you will learn something you did not know, or misremembered.
Soundtrack is good too.


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I've only watched the first one. Probably catch a few this weekend but I think I am in this for the long haul. As others have mentioned,
not likely the kind of show you want to binge watch.

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I didn't know that Nixon interfered with the Paris Peace talks, which could have put an end to the war, via one of his aides convincing the South Vietnamese to walk away from the negotiations. Is this common knowledge or are many people as unaware of this as I was? Jesus...

In episode 6, at about the 1:00 mark, a Vietnamese man was talking about the massacre in Hue and said "We rarely talk about it. Many will not speak about it. I am telling you the truth as I know it. Please be careful in your file because I could get in trouble." Why did they leave that in there? If he could be persecuted for what he said, it seems like they should have left his comments out.

Also in episode 6, former helicopter pilot Ron Ferrizzi (they guy with the crazy mustache) looks like he could snap at any moment. I don't know if I'd be any different had I experienced what he did.


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I didn't know that Nixon interfered with the Paris Peace talks, which could have put an end to the war, via one of his aides convincing the South Vietnamese to walk away from the negotiations. Is this common knowledge or are many people as unaware of this as I was? Jesus....

That was one of several interesting Revelations. It was treasonous, and it interesting how closely a certain situation taking place today may or may not be similar. The phone calls were amazing. What can I do for you Dick?


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That was known before this but I don't know when it came out exactly.

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Hatchetman wrote:
That was known before this but I don't know when it came out exactly.


And Reagan did the same thing in 1980 with Iran

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I still have 3 or 4 left before I finish. It's been an impressive documentary thus far. Being born in 1976 I obviously missed quite a bit
of the details on this. Not even really a subject we learned that much about in school. I think the movies and TV shows like Tour of Duty
is where I got my idea about what this war was like or about. As a kid playing war with plastic guns and such we always pretended it was
Vietnam. Usually can only watch one episode of these at a time because a lot of it makes me a little sick to my stomach about what happened
to so many of the troops on both sides. Watching these guys fight over hills and taking huge losses and then just giving the hills back up after
a day or two. Also the story from the POW about the cat really made me think. Yikes. I've become pretty desensitized over the years to seeing
dead bodies and carnage on TV but they have so much footage of bodies strewn everywhere and just watching the body count skyrocket after each
episode is disturbing.

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they have so much footage of bodies strewn everywhere and just watching the body count skyrocket after each
episode is disturbing.


I think it's 8, but when they cover the "Pinkville" atrocity it is absolutely heartbreaking some of the images.

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I also have 3-4 episodes left. Obviously extremely definitive which is what one expects from Burns.

Tonight I just watched "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" which was only 1 hr 21 minutes but is was quite powerful.

Another movie worth seeing about Vietnam is Boys of Company C. Captures the hypocrisy of this war quite well.


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'77Cubs wrote:

Tonight I just watched "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" which was only 1 hr 21 minutes but is was quite powerful.


i think it's the best of the bunch; succinct, and perfectly captures the most sobering part of the war--what the soldiers went through, in their own words.

and its soundtrack has been ripped off by just about every subsequent movie revolving around that time period.


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Finally finished this up earlier in the week. Really felt a lot of sorrow for the guys that wanted to hate the memorial but could barely
hold it together when they finally went there to pay their respects. Very glad I made the effort to watch this. So much I didn't really
know about the entire conflict, especially the history before our true involvement and after we had left.

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