HC: The Vietnam War - Ringing Down the Curtain 4/5

America's first televised war comes starkly and comprehensively alive in this weeping documentary collection. The best material from the archives of THE HISTORY CHANNEL and CBS News. 7 complete documentaries offers rare insight into critical elements of the Vietnam War. Contemporary footage and commentary capture the Vietnam experience as it happened.

At a total cost of more than 3.1 million lives, the Vietnam conflict is, to date, America's longest and most controversial war. It also marked the first time TV journalists ventured to the frontlines to bring the spectacle of combat into American living rooms. Across the nation, Americans watched, captivated by the surprise Tet Offensive and the slow-motion tragedy of the 77-day Battle of Khe Sanh, and inspired by the courage and skill of American soldiers at
decisive engagements like Ia Drang Valley, Con Thien, and Dak To.

This special THE HISTORY CHANNEL collection profiles the decision-makers of the Vietnam War and chronicles each key event, from the advisors' arrival in 1959 to the airlift from the roof of the American Embassy in 1975. Archival footage and interviews with historians and veterans reveal the military and political strategies in play, and CBS News archives take viewers to
the frontlines to witness the daily struggles of American servicemen and women.

Combining interviews with Vietnam veterans and the actual footage from CBS News coverage, the viewer is given a glimpse into the war that has rarely been seen. Battle stories are heart breaking enough in the words of the veterans, but coupled with the news footage and reporting (for the first time from the front lines,) it becomes a greater more personal grief.

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[mollkatless]

@AccordGTR - so the one telling everyone to do their homework uses as his weekend trip to vietnam filled with useless anecdotes to surmise everything there is hunky-dory? this is what you call exhaustive research? It is not even a cursory glance at the facts?

I have run out of patience with you. I realize in the philipines and education in australia is a huge step up, but for most of the advanced world it is step down - that has been on display in this back and forth - do run along now

[AccordGTR]

@mollkatless I think so. It sure looked like it when I visited HCM City a couple of years ago. I saw no slums and it looked very peaceful, safe and clean. I was surprised to see many high-end residential villages also wondering how could that be, if Vietnam is supposed to be socialist. I was shocked to learn Vietnam gets more tourists 4 million a year, than my country Philippines. So yeah I think it was a very good thing for the North to win. US and Vietnam are good friends now.

[mollkatless]

@AccordGTR - did north vietnam bring the south freedom yest or no? is the north, in spite of fairly recent changes an open society with real democratic freedom for it citizens, yest or no?

[AccordGTR]

@mollkatless Cuz u asked me questions with false assumptions, like assuming Pol Pot and Vietnam were ever allies. I'm not your History teacher and if you ignore history, that's your problem. I'm just gonna point out some facts to you that contradict your beliefs. If you are REALLY interested in learning the truth, you will research more, otherwise, I don't give a hoot if you wanna believe lies and propaganda all your life because in the end, its your loss getting fooled by your own govt.

[mollkatless]

@AccordGTR - aside from your inferior australian education, is there some other reason you won't answer a direct question? I have asked you several question, none of which you have answered, do you understand the questions? should I phrase them more simply? can we involve someone else to read the questions to you and help you formulate your answers?

Now I feel sorry for you, such simple things to the rest of us, so hard for you, poor kid

[AccordGTR]

@mollkatless Oh jeez listen to urself, judging people and lands you have no idea about. Do u even know about US history, how long it took to become civilized, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, how it invaded Texas and Mexico, Cuba, the Philippines, all before 1900?? America was at war with itself for 100 years yet you judge Vietnam's people. Come on, man. You look stupid, ignorant and hypocritical to us Asians when we know your history more than you do. You can't judge us.

[mollkatless]

so make a definitive statement, @ the time of the war were the north viets offering the south freedom? right to own property? right to leave the country if they desired? open & free elections, with real distinctions in the parties? Just a yes or a no.

I understand vietnam has opened up some, but I would not say they are as free as USA or western europe, would you?

After what your forefathers forced Japan to act as they did to philipinos, you dated a japanese girl? traitor?

[AccordGTR]

@mollkatless Oh my, did you just get out of elementary? Millions of westerners visit Vietnam every year. I went to HCM City last year. You should go. Fyi, the Viets were fighting Pol Pot's regime while the Americans supported his seat in the UN even after the Viets ran him out of his own country. Don't be an ignorant naive fool.

Fyi Japan is our biggest investor, bigger than the US. I had a Jap girlfriend for 4 years. Lovely girl. I was educated in the US and Australia. Now go do your homework

[mollkatless]

@AccordGTR - are you retarded? what do you mean by the "myth of freedom"? and to suggest the north vienamese were fighting for freedom is particularly dumb - the freedom of communism? do you think you could ask pol pots cambodians if they believed communism offered freedom?

you should be angry at the poor educational system in the philipines, they are responsible for your imbecillic ideas (I don't blame you!) now, no more posts or I will send the japanese after you

[MrKevin90]

@FireInTheOrganism It was nepotism and corruption in the ARVN and Diem's government that made things worse for them. Besides the US government made a wrong decision to prevent the Vietnamese from having their own independence, therefore went to war for wrong reasons.