Slightly P: Ken Burns//The Vietnam War
Keith Davis
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Sat Sep 30 09:46:55 CDT 2017
Perhaps, but this article is still worth reading.
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> On Sep 30, 2017, at 9:33 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> "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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