Watched the first episode last night. Wife had seen it already and said I would be pissed after I saw it. I was. Why couldn’t the French have just left them alone after WWII and ditched the colonialism thing? The Vietnamese were all ready to do their own thing as they had in the past, no need for some other nation state to stand over them and tell them how things are done.
Like most of Ken Burns’ stuff, it was well done. Looking forward to the next episode. -D > On Dec 18, 2020, at 10:25 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > My father came back pretty messed up in the head. I have had a lot of people > who knew him before he went and they say he came back a completely different > person. > > On 12/18/2020 2:54 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> As I was alive at the time and recall a lot of the evening news aspects, I >> was too young to fully grasp what was going on. I had friends in school >> who’s older brothers were over there and came back pretty messed up in the >> head. >> >> I’m interested mainly in the stuff leading up to the war and what was up >> with the French bailing out. The rest should be good, too, I was just >> wondering. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -D >> >>> On Dec 18, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> It's very good. I "watched" most of the first part from the kitchen while >>> Mom had it on the TV, I don't have good memories from those days. >>> >>> Well worth the time, Burns is a good historian and very neutral. I felt a >>> great deal of stress relief after watching it, believe it or not. >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
