Slightly P: Ken Burns//The Vietnam War

[Keith Davis]

In case anyone isn’t aware, on the PBS website, you can choose between the different versions.

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> On Sep 30, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My father was in Vietnam in 1968, with a wife and three kids at home. I was 7-8 years old. My brother and sister were 5 and 2. He was at Nha Trang Air Force Base. He wouldn’t talk about it for 30 years. When he did, all he would say was, “we should never have been over there”.
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>> On Sep 30, 2017, at 10:46 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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....
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>>> 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. 
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>>>> 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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