I helped write the original screen play during two tours... Don't need to watch the movie, tyvm..
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 7:37 AM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I am probably going to have to go back and watch it again, it has been a > while since I have seen it. > > On 12/19/2020 6:28 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > > Watched the first episode last night. Wife had seen it already and said > I would be pissed after I saw it. I was. Why couldn’t the French have just > left them alone after WWII and ditched the colonialism thing? The > Vietnamese were all ready to do their own thing as they had in the past, no > need for some other nation state to stand over them and tell them how > things are done. > > > > Like most of Ken Burns’ stuff, it was well done. Looking forward to the > next episode. > > > > -D > > > >> On Dec 18, 2020, at 10:25 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> > >> My father came back pretty messed up in the head. I have had a lot of > people who knew him before he went and they say he came back a completely > different person. > >> > >> On 12/18/2020 2:54 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > >>> As I was alive at the time and recall a lot of the evening news > aspects, I was too young to fully grasp what was going on. I had friends in > school who’s older brothers were over there and came back pretty messed up > in the head. > >>> > >>> I’m interested mainly in the stuff leading up to the war and what was > up with the French bailing out. The rest should be good, too, I was just > wondering. > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> -D > >>> > >>>> On Dec 18, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> It's very good. I "watched" most of the first part from the kitchen > while Mom had it on the TV, I don't have good memories from those days. > >>>> > >>>> Well worth the time, Burns is a good historian and very neutral. I > felt a great deal of stress relief after watching it, believe it or not. > >>>> _______________________________________ > >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>>> > >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>>> > >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________ > >>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>> > >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>> > >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
