They did this after Vietnam, when America spent decades watching movies like Deer Hunter and First Blood and Coming Home about vets struggling to reassimilate after the madness of the jungles. So we came to think of the tragedy of Vietnam as something primarily experienced by our guys, and not by the millions of Indochinese we killed. ...That doesnt mean Vietnam Veterans didnt suffer: they did, often terribly. The movies used the struggles of soldiers as a kind of human shield protecting us from thinking too much about what wed done in places like Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:43:30 +0000
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