Conservative Tribune – This week, veterans of the Vietnam War sent a letter to PBS, high-profile documentarian Ken Burns, and documentary sponsor Bank of America in an attempt to set the record straight on the facts concerning “The Vietnam War,” a PBS documentary series that’s turning a lot of heads.
According to PJ Media, veterans argue that the documentary series fails to mention key aspects of the conflict, “including the communist connections of North Vietnamese dictator Ho Chi Minh and the brutal repression after the war.”
Although I personally have yet to see the series myself, that accusation does seem to hold at least some water.
In an interview with far-left publication Mother Jones, neither Burns, who co-produced the series with Lynn Novick, or his interviewer mentioned the words “communism” or “communist” — not once, and it was a fairly length interview.
Lewis Sorley, a Vietnam War veteran, historian, and director at Vietnam Veterans for Factual History, was quick to remind them that this was more than just some unjust blunder. read more
Why are we still funding those people?
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We have four over the air pbs stations. 2 are exclusively devoted to climate change, immigrants and commies of the 3rd world. The other 2 are only part time devoted and one of course carries the bbc lying news. Yeah, why are we funding that crap?
Boat people
As soon as I saw it was being done by the self loving Ken Burns I knew it would be crap. Haven’t watched. Won’t watch.
I figured the Vietnam War would be portrayed unfairly by Ken Burns. He cannot take the liberties he did with the Civil War because there are people who were there and know what happened. Won’t watch and PBS should be dumped from public funds. They represent only a portion of the country.
That’s the war all lefty college students avoided, like most jornolists and anchors at MSNBC
How many people are aware that the DMZ separation of the two Vietnam’s had been there for several hundred years and that the north and south were deeply divided for as long. This was not an arbitrary boundary established by us but one they themselves used. There was a mass migration of Christians and buddhists that fled the persecution of the north.
Also the South Vietnamese government was controlling the Vietcong and the north was aware they were losing which is why they committed north Vietnamese regulars to invade the south.
Ken Burns is just spewing the leftists tainted version of the facts.
The two most important letters in the station name are BS, they always shovel it whenever possible!
Because if you cut funding then you hate Big Bird and Kermit the Frog.
Same as always. That cows the eunuch Republicans.
From time to time I’ll say to a shit libber, “Tell me why we lost the Vietnam War .. and by the way, I’ll know if you’re on the right track in five seconds.”
And after he spews the usual drivel, I’ll make a buzzer sound and say “Wrong answer!” And then I’ll say —
“See, if within five seconds of opening your mouth you fail to say the words ‘Because the loathsome, treacherous, backstabbing Democratic 94th Congress cut the funding’ you demonstrate that you just dont know. Everything else is irrelevant.”
Father-in-law displays a trophy made from an artillery shell. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen it so the enscription exactly right, but you’ll get the drift.
PARTICIPANT SOUTHEAST ASIA WAR GAMES.
1966-1970. SECOND PLACE.
Breaks my heart every time I see it.
That old Marine artillery man is understandably bitter.
Bless all who have served and let there be a special place in hell for the politicians and media who undermined your valiant efforts. That includes you, Walter Cronkite.
We didn’t “lose” the Vietnam War. You can’t lose a war you were never allowed to fight properly, and therefore could never win. With the Johnson Administration’s tactics, the best we could hope for was always going to be a stalemate, which we had until the U.S. finally got tired of losing blood and treasure and quit playing the game.
Refused to watch the PBS VN Story.
I don’t need some left wing, limp wristed, story teller who wasn’t there to “tell” me about Vietnam….I lived it and still do periodically.
VN was my first taste of National betrayal, it’s a bitter taste.
Now the Democrats, Ryan, McCONnell, BLM, Antifa, NFL, DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security and the establishment RINOs are telling me to get used to it.
Ken Burns my ass
I KNEW that series was gonna suck 31 flavors of “Ass.” Makes me GLAD I didn’t watch it… 🙄
I watched Burns’ story about the War of Northern Aggression.
Don’t need anymore revisionist history from him.
I know a couple if Vietnamese pretty well, been to their houses, had dinner, drank beer.
One was (not) named Dang and the other was (not) Dong.
Dang was a boat person who had fought for the North, spent years in refugee camps.
Dong worked in the Da Nang PX, escaped when the country fell, came straight to the US and a sponsor.
It was like the division we have right now.
Dang hated Dong because he was a rich Southern Chinese and Dong hated Dang because he wanted to throw all the rich Chinese out of Viet Nam.
It’s as close to the rift between the Yankees and the Rebels you can get.
This has been going on probably as long as the Muslims have fought in the ME.
The US participation was but a hiccup in the history of their North South Conflict.
Lyndon Johnson ignored the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s recommendations and advice on how to fight and win the war in Vietnam. They knew that the only way to defeat the North Vietnamese was to drive through Laos to the Mekong River to stop the flow of men and material along the Ho Chi MinhTrail. Wary of committing that many ground troops to the war, Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara chose to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail in a futile effort to avoid the all out war that would have been required to defeat the North Vietnamese. I didn’t see anything in Burns’ series that explained how Johnson and McNamara ignored the military’s advice and committed this country to a war of attrition with a very determined enemy.
Three unspoken words.
DEMOCRATS LOSE WARS.
OK 4. INTENTIONALLY.