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.
>
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
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
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
If it is the same one I am thinking of, yes, it is well worth it.
On 12/18/2020 2:18 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Has anyone watched this series by Ken Burns? I have seen bits and pieces of it
but wasn’t sure the whole thing was worth watching, since it’s like 12 hours
long.
-D
I drew 248 and was therefore able to enlist in the Peace Corps. I refused
to go to a recent college reunion because they were going to have lots of
group talk about the Experience of Vietnam, which meant nothing to me
personally.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 6:10 PM OK Don via Mercedes
wrote:
> I
I lost several HS classmates to Vietnam. I missed going due to Nixon's
first draft lottery where I drew 324. My best friend at the time drew 24.
He stayed in ROTC and let the Army send him to medical school, I dropped
out of ROTC and stopped cutting my hair and shaving.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at
Agreed. As I mentioned, I had some school buddies who’s older brothers were
over there, and when they came back some of them were pretty messed up. I
worked for one of them when I pumped gas a few months in high school, and this
guy was a real hum dinger. He couldn’t handle stress at all. We
The French bailed on Viet Nam because holding on to a plantation colony wasn't
worth the money, effort, or dead soldiers. The Viet Cong were probably the
best army in the world, having been in combat (and winning) since the 1920's
fighting off the Chinese under several governments and the
I watched it when it was on PBS, it was pretty good but made me angry and
frustrated. Such a waste.
I worked summers after HS and in college at the airport at a FBO. We had one
pilot who flew charters, he was a few years older than me and had been there.
We would hang out in the evenings when
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
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.
Has anyone watched this series by Ken Burns? I have seen bits and pieces of it
but wasn’t sure the whole thing was worth watching, since it’s like 12 hours
long.
-D
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