Vietnam Revisited

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War and Remembrance

“There’ll be moments when you hate it, because it’s saying the thing that’s opposite to what you feel or what you believe. But wait two minutes, and it’ll be saying exactly what you feel and believe. And then be prepared because two minutes after that, it might be yet another thing that you didn’t know whether you liked or you didn’t like.”

—Ken Burns, filmmaker, in Erik Mink, “Vietnam: A Measure of Hope and Healing,” HuffPo, Sept. 14, 2017. (Thanks to alert WORDster Mark Larson)

 

• Editorial Comment: As I remember Vietnam, there wasn’t much likable about it.


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