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The last episode was very sad. I have seen documentaries about the last days and its always sad seeing US abandon the doomed city in chaos and fear of the invading enemy.
Very good documentary, well balanced and full of little known details from all sides of the conflict. Some posters talk about "bias", but I didn't see any.
It was sad to see the withdrawal, particularly what happened afterwards to those that supported us but I believe it was the right thing to do to prevent further bloodshed. I wonder if we will ever do the same with Afghanistan, that would be even more brutal.
Editing must have been a rather large job to consolidate and pick out what is important, always open to criticism.
I thought he did a great job as usual, it's difficult fitting 10 years of not only the war but the politics and everything that was going on in the states into 18 hours.
It was sad to see the withdrawal, particularly what happened afterwards to those that supported us but I believe it was the right thing to do to prevent further bloodshed. I wonder if we will ever do the same with Afghanistan, that would be even more brutal.
Editing must have been a rather large job to consolidate and pick out what is important, always open to criticism.
I thought he did a great job as usual, it's difficult fitting 10 years of not only the war but the politics and everything that was going on in the states into 18 hours.
There was no point in prolonging it after the troops were out, but those cargo ships which were ordered to leave empty could have evacuated tens of thousands of people who helped US.
There was no point in prolonging it after the troops were out, but those cargo ships which were ordered to leave empty could have evacuated tens of thousands of people who helped US.
Funny how at that time there was a good deal of resistance to resettlement of those Vietnamese refugees that we transported.
They could have been taken to other places, not just US. In the end many of the boat-people ended up all over the globe, even in Scandinavia.
A lot of them settled right around here. One part of Arlington, VA used to be called Little Saigon.
In high school I worked at McDonalds for my beer money. The kitchen staff had a large contingent of Vietnamese. Their English was not the best, but they worked their tails off and then often went to a second job afterwards. Not a gripe among them.
I felt there was a bit of agenda in the Series. I don't know how you can make anything totally unbiased, even though people say they are "objective." We see everything through our own particular lenses of experience. There was one particular point when Musgrove was talking, after we left, and S. Vietnamese left hanging there, at the moment the last helicopter took off, April 30, he said" This was one of the worst moments in America's history" or something very close to that. It surprised me. I would think if he would have said "the moments boots were on the ground" there or another historical war moment. I thought it odd, like they told him to say that.
I felt there was a bit of agenda in the Series. I don't know how you can make anything totally unbiased, even though people say they are "objective." We see everything through our own particular lenses of experience. There was one particular point when Musgrove was talking, after we left, and S. Vietnamese left hanging there, at the moment the last helicopter took off, April 30, he said" This was one of the worst moments in America's history" or something very close to that. It surprised me. I would think if he would have said "the moments boots were on the ground" there or another historical war moment. I thought it odd, like they told him to say that.
That response seems natural considering all the lives that we spent, it was a turning point. It might not be the worst point in our history but I cannot think of another including the civil war.
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