Slightly P: Ken Burns//The Vietnam War

[Mark Kohut]

I am not even going to bother to read it to say IT DOES NOT!....I have NOT
been able to get the repeated huge numbers out of my head--because I,
hating to even read about war, had NO IDEA they were so high---with scene
after scene of massive numbers
of dead Vietnamese...When we see that bombing and extrapolate--how else can
it be done?--and see the deaths and extrapolate......THE HORROR, THE
HORROR....

and they come up in EVERY discussion I have had--and I am in a discussion
group about it in my soft liberal bourgeois town.

"Sometimes simply seeing what is on front of one's eyes is the hardest
thing"---G. Orwell, surely paraphrased.

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> This is a brief article by Nick Turse who wrote an important recent book
> on Vietnam.
> https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/29/ken-burns-
> vietnam-war-documentary-glosses-over-devastating-civilian-toll
>
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