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RE: Missing from Ken Burns’ ‘Vietnam’: The patriotism and pride of those who fought

in #politics • 7 years ago

"We just can’t impose our will on others” is that a "leftist message"? About that pride, watch the documentary "Winter Soldier" and see for yourself from the mouths of the proud soldieres who fought...

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     7 years ago 

    On the same subject:

    My own views on the Vietnam war haven't changed much in the intervening half-century, since my assignment in Vietnam with Special Forces, but I am called, today, a "revisionist" by some who have never served our country. I have subsequently learned, thanks in part to Burns's history, that a "revisionist" is anyone who opposes the Communist Party line, so I guess I can live with that. Many of my fellow veterans have succumbed to a constant din of false history. Burns's documentary film series includes an Air Force general proclaiming that he thought we were fighting on the wrong side. The view from a cockpit at several thousand feet must have been very different from that on the ground.
    The tragedy of the PBS-Ken Burns version of the Vietnam War
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      Of course it is. The very point of war is to impose your will upon others. There is no other reason to invoke it.

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