[Magdalen] Viet Nam Series.

[Marion Thompson]

I watched it Sunday night and have set the recorder.  However, I didn't 
realise until this moment that it's on every night, not weekly.  I'll 
get to it all in due course, but I'm out a lot during the week.  Very 
interesting so far!!!  A lot of 'who knew?' moments.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 9/19/2017 12:05 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
> I'm surprised that no one has commented on the ongoing USA
> PBS Network series (Burns, et al) about the Viet Nam War.
> This is a very much in depth group of mostly 2 hour sessions
> on that difficult and unpopular conflict and extending through
> two weeks.
>   
> I suppose that any American under, say, 45, would have relatively
> less interest in the series, and even for those of us who lived  through
> and remember the Viet Nam War, the subject is often approached
> with ambivalence.
>   
> In any case, I am watching and following this documentary series
> with considerable interest, as it is calling into question many of my
> opinions and beliefs about the War.  For example, I always  thought
> of the leader of North Viet Nam, Ho Chi Min, as a routine Communist
> thug, but the series paints a much different picture.
>   
> The Viet Nam War had a profound affect on me because I was
> drafted and then allowed to accept a commission as a Captain
> in the US Army Medical Corps in February of 1966, and was then
> allowed (nicely!) to finish my dermatology residency at  UM-Minneapolis
> Medical School and entered active duty at Ft. Sam Houston, San
> Antonio, TX in August, 1966.
>   
> I was assigned to a duty station at Frankfurt/M, Germany after a
> two month entrance training, but discovered that to take this  position,
> I had to give them 3+ years instead of the usual draftee two years.
> It was considered a "plum" assignment.  It was.  Living in  Europe
> for more than three years made a profound impact on me and the
> family, and it was all "thanks" to the Viet Nam War.
>   
>   
> David S.
>