DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Everything Else... VietNam doc. by Ken Burns /a must watch !

.. Those of us who lived through the period will remember and maybe even have some questions answered .. For those of us who served , well each will reflect in their own way . For all the younger folks , this is one hell of an history of the sixty's and us Boomers !

I made myself watch all of it ; wasn't easy .. ( 10 parts ) Should be a must for all College and University's.. Might be a little much for high school .

Incredibly well done.
What a massive waste of human life. Both sides.
I’m leaving in a couple weeks for S.E. Asia. One of the places I plan on visiting is the Killing Fields Memorial at Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I’d always known about what happened in Cambodia but the documentary really helped. It’ll make my experience that much more impactful.
Ken Burns’ docs are always extremely well done. This one is no different. Even my mother who rarely talks politics has watched it and brought it up to me in conversation. She said she never paid much attention to the war back then as she wasn’t going to get drafted and my dad was in college and wasn’t at risk for being drafted. She saw it on the news but didn’t pay much attention as she was raising me and my siblings at the time. The documentary really affected her.

Is it on netflix?

It was and still maybe, on PBS.

There were a couple of Vets that I was not on the same page with .. Was in Country in 68 and 69 .. I never witness the any of the Hard drugs ( tons of pot , lol ) or the needless killings that were mentioned ..

The politics and social revolution went through in such a short time was unreal !

Excellent!

Whilst watching what I believe is the 4th episode out of the 10 and this episode titled "Resolve", I realized that the battle told about beggining at the 1hr and 44min mark was the battle that a very close friend of our family's son was killed in. I was 10 but knew him and his parents as well. I idolized him cause of his uniform. The Documentary has it as they(137 men) were airlifted to hill 38 in the Kontum Valley near Dak To(pronounced Doc-Toe) and ambushed by a battalion at 6:58a on June 22nd, 1967.
76 dead(43 shot in head/close range), ears cut off, eyes gouged out, ring fingers missing, etc.
23 others wounded.

They only found 10 enemy dead. Wether some carried off by the NVA or not we'll never know

Interesting fairytale told in the documentary. An officer told a member of press 475 enemy killed. When questioned, Gen. Westmoreland said to a reporter, "it's too late, it's already gone out".

Wether true or not, gotta keep that body count up, eh General?

He grew up in Eastlake, Ohio. This below is him........

Thank you and Rest in Peace Steve.

Below is his online "Wall" deal. Right there, killed June 22, 1967, Kontum, South Vietnam.

http://thewall-usa.com/info.asp?recid=35133

The year I was in the draft my number was # was 196 they drew to 188. Didn't mean I was safe just that I wasn't one of the first ones.

I watched the entire series. It was mesmerizing.

I didn't know if I could handle it ! I will by the DVD Set .

I'm quite sure we (1975 grads) were the 1st to not have to register for the draft. As I recall, the class of 1974 did have to register but few if any 74 grads countrywide registered and were not held accountable for not registering.

As I recall, that's how it went???

I've only seen episode 4 but imo it was very well done, hence.....

Ordered yesterday.