PBS' Last Days of Viet Nam

[Hap]

This is available only on the 5th - 7th

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/lastdays/

[RotBaron]

Thanks for sharing - didn't hear a thing about it, I'll have to wait for 4/28, but looks much worth waiting for.

It's 1 hour 38 mins.

[rpm]

This is highly political and controversial subject. People have been banned for less.

[RotBaron]

This is highly political and controversial subject. People have been banned for less.

Only if you want it to be.

If it's presented and spoken about factually, then it is just that: fact.

[Patches1]

From the film clips I saw the emotion was certainly portrayed accurately.

I was newly arrived in the 3rd RECON Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, USMC, just shortly after the fall of Saigon and I loaned a Marine, who had been in Saigon at the time of the fall and is seen in a clip, some money so he could go home on Emergency Leave to be with his Father who was dieing. Every time I see the clip I am transported to that time; no, I don't remember the name of the Marine, I simply handed him $300.00 and he went home.

Politics be damned! Sometimes there is actually a Human Interest Story muddled within the morass of politics and news media!