I have been waiting for this documentary ever since it was first announced. My experience with the Vietnam war is rather different from most. I was in the Navy at it's twilight and was never in theater. But My Dad was career Navy and he was serving duty on ships sailing to and from the area. As a teenager in the late 1960's I witnessed mostly Marine personal returning with devastating injuries, and listened to their stories on Treasure Island where I lived 1967-68, or at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. When I enlisted in the Navy in 1972 the Navy was not sending many personal to area except on board ship. I went the GITMO Cuba, and Key West Florida thank God.
I have studied in detail the whole Vietnam history from it's beginning when the French invaded and took over Southeast Asia in the mid 19th century till about 1975 so Ken Burns, and Lynn Novick Vietnam War did not tell me anything I didn't already know, it is, however, dragging up terrible memories of severely wounded and burned Marines I witnessed at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in the late 1960's. This is a very difficult documentary for me to watch because of those teenage memories.
For those of you born after the Vietnam War watch it and you will learn about the total disaster it was nothing has been left out it will help you understand. You just might even develop the hatered those of us who lived through this era have for certain mostly dead politicians.
This is another tour-de-force for Ken Burns and company. How is going to top this one?
A very interesting thing I am watching the series on my Apple TV, There are 4 versions of the series. edited for TV, unedited with explicit language for streaming, Spanish, and in the Vietnamese language.
I have studied in detail the whole Vietnam history from it's beginning when the French invaded and took over Southeast Asia in the mid 19th century till about 1975 so Ken Burns, and Lynn Novick Vietnam War did not tell me anything I didn't already know, it is, however, dragging up terrible memories of severely wounded and burned Marines I witnessed at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in the late 1960's. This is a very difficult documentary for me to watch because of those teenage memories.
For those of you born after the Vietnam War watch it and you will learn about the total disaster it was nothing has been left out it will help you understand. You just might even develop the hatered those of us who lived through this era have for certain mostly dead politicians.
This is another tour-de-force for Ken Burns and company. How is going to top this one?
A very interesting thing I am watching the series on my Apple TV, There are 4 versions of the series. edited for TV, unedited with explicit language for streaming, Spanish, and in the Vietnamese language.
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