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Paul Cox: My long-ago-purchased DVD’s came today and being the short-attention-span person I am, I plopped in Episode 10 to see how it all ended. I won’t spoil it all for you, since I know that many of you are enjoying the
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Doug Rawlings: EPISODE NINE A DISRESPECTFUL LOYALTY MAY 1970 TO AUGUST 1973 We have reached the penultimate evening of what has become a ten round bout pitting character against character in the story of America. More than one
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Doug Rawlings: EPISODE EIGHT: April 1969 to May 1970 “THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD” AS OF APRIL, 1969 THERE ARE 543,482 AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN COUNTRY. 40,794 DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO DATE Silence. That’s the overriding theme of
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Howie Machtinger: Episode 7: The Veneer of Civilization: The question of troop morale haunts this segment, but B/N’s picture isn’t entirely coherent. At several points it touts the morale of the US soldiers.
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Photo: Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Audiovisual Archives/PBS Doug Rawlings: EPISODE SIX “Things Fall Apart” 485,600 American troops in Vietnam at the beginning of 1968; 510,000 at its close. As any American veteran
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Doug Rawlings: “This Is War. This Is What We Do.” This nightly trek to the TV screen is getting exhausting. Of course this medium that we have allowed into our homes these past five evenings, that we have chosen to bring
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Howie M. What haunts this episode and the entire documentary is the failure to make a distinction among fundamentally different critiques of the war: (a) The war was morally wrong, an unjust invasion, a colonial or neocolonial
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Mike Ferner: “Take this here rifle and a helmet and go kill some Commies for Christ.” That is the perverted, obscene way that our government and culture twist the good-hearted intentions of young people who so
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Episode 2 Reflections: Tarak Kauff: May I say for the record, it was not just that the people in high places knew the war was “unwinnable” – that was secondary, it was much worse than that, they also knew (from the
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Paul Cox: If I may rant for a moment. Karl Marlantes is a good enough guy and wrote the best battle book he was capable of in The Matterhorn, but he ain’t no expert on Vietnam (or on humans and war, as a quick read of
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