[Magdalen] Viet Nam Series.

[Grace Cangialosi]

I don't have TV, so I can't watch it. But even if I could, I'm not sure I'd watch. It doesn't really feel like history yet, and it seems as if I saw most of it when it was going on.

Grace Cangialosi

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
St. Teresa of Calcutta

On September 19, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

I. Just . Cant. Too emotional for me.

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
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