Something I never learned in HS or College, but did in the documentary...

Oct 12, 2017
4:59:39pm

Bonoman All-American

my wife leaned over to me during that episode and said, "so this was all about blocking communist expansion and he wasn't even a true communist? He was a Vietnamese patriot?"

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Bonoman

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Just finished the Ken Burns documentary on Viet Nam....(Spoilers)

Bonoman All-American

10/12/17 9:43am

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East1999

10/12/17 9:50am

Politics ruins everything it touches. Religion, the economy, housing. War is bad

jkccoug

10/12/17 10:03am

I'm 3 episodes in and am already disgusted at the politicians using soldiers as

El Pasco

10/12/17 10:04am

Nothing has changed.

macaroni

10/12/17 10:55am

I found it to be an excellent series. I have several friends who served there.

CanuckUte

10/12/17 10:13am

Hubris everywhere, on both sides (us and North Vietnamese)...

ToonArmyCoug

10/12/17 11:36am

Had Ho Chi Minh not been communist, the US would have backed him 100%.

Turnpike Lane

10/12/17 11:49am

Ho Chi Minh told the U.S. very early on

JmThms

10/12/17 2:46pm

Something I never learned in HS or College, but did in the documentary...

Bonoman

10/12/17 4:59pm

He was a Vietnamese patriot FIRST AND FOREMOST. But...

JmThms

10/12/17 9:03pm

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