| The Vietnam War. 08:45 - Oct 18 with 6790 views | Benters |
Been rained off today and i am on episode 4 of this beast of a program.
Bloody hell that poor country has been through some crap. |  |
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| The Vietnam War. on 08:52 - Oct 18 with 4433 views | factual_blue |
Empires are wonderful things, aren't they? |  |
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| The Vietnam War. on 09:02 - Oct 18 with 4408 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Rain stops war .........wow ! |  |
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| The Vietnam War. on 09:02 - Oct 18 with 4414 views | factual_blue |
The Vietnam War was a constant presence in my life as a schoolkid. Didn't really grasp the issues at that time, and since then discussion of it has really been about the US Vets and PTSD.
Nice to see the Vietnamese view given in this series. Brilliant interviews and stories.
I've just watched the Tet Offensive episode, the infamous execution of a Vietcong and the storm of anti-war sentiment that unleashed. 1968 was - too put it mildly - a dramatic year across the world. | |
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| The Vietnam War. on 09:10 - Oct 18 with 4383 views | Steve_M |
BBC4, two episodes each Monday evening. Should all still be on iplayer.
It is very good, grim at times but excellent TV history. |  |
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| The Vietnam War. on 09:16 - Oct 18 with 4372 views | WeWereZombies |
| The Vietnam War. on 09:10 - Oct 18 by Steve_M |
BBC4, two episodes each Monday evening. Should all still be on iplayer.
It is very good, grim at times but excellent TV history. |
Sort of sad to say but I will start downloading as soon as MOTD2 finishes, you have no idea how slow my broadband is...and this is a football forum after all.
Someone is going to post a spoiler with the weekend's scores now, aren't they?
edit: seven days left to catch the first episode - I should just make it... [Post edited 18 Oct 2017 9:21]
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| The Vietnam War. on 09:31 - Oct 18 with 4349 views | bluewein |
| The Vietnam War. on 09:02 - Oct 18 by factual_blue |
The Vietnam War was a constant presence in my life as a schoolkid. Didn't really grasp the issues at that time, and since then discussion of it has really been about the US Vets and PTSD.
Nice to see the Vietnamese view given in this series. Brilliant interviews and stories.
I've just watched the Tet Offensive episode, the infamous execution of a Vietcong and the storm of anti-war sentiment that unleashed. 1968 was - too put it mildly - a dramatic year across the world. |
"The Vietnam War was a constant presence in my life as a schoolkid."
So the 1955-75 conflict was actually known as Vietnam War 2...?  |  |
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| The Vietnam War. on 09:38 - Oct 18 with 4330 views | bluewein |
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| The Vietnam War. on 09:52 - Oct 18 with 4308 views | Guthrum |
I'm going to have to give that a watch when I finally get a few days at home. |  |
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| The Vietnam War. on 10:40 - Oct 18 with 4263 views | Benters |
| The Vietnam War. on 09:52 - Oct 18 by Guthrum |
I'm going to have to give that a watch when I finally get a few days at home. |
Its very good,sad and a complete fk up all at the same time ! War is Hell.
Im on 5 now and Le Van Cho of the Vietnamese Army says," The Americans had a weakness,they smoked cigarettes and left a trail of butts (not water) which we could easily track" I mean come on !
The Vietanamese Army also had the better rifle the AK-47, The Americans had the M-16 rifle that kept getting clogged up with crap,and had to keep being cleaned. | |
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| The Vietnam War. on 10:57 - Oct 18 with 4216 views | witchdoctor |
| The Vietnam War. on 10:40 - Oct 18 by Benters |
Its very good,sad and a complete fk up all at the same time ! War is Hell.
Im on 5 now and Le Van Cho of the Vietnamese Army says," The Americans had a weakness,they smoked cigarettes and left a trail of butts (not water) which we could easily track" I mean come on !
The Vietanamese Army also had the better rifle the AK-47, The Americans had the M-16 rifle that kept getting clogged up with crap,and had to keep being cleaned. |
I’m up to date with all the episodes shown thus far...the nixon years...well I know he had the nickname tricky dicky, but feck me....some of his shenanigans related in the programmes takes it to a new level... |  | | |
| The Vietnam War. on 11:02 - Oct 18 with 4203 views | Steve_M |
| The Vietnam War. on 10:40 - Oct 18 by Benters |
Its very good,sad and a complete fk up all at the same time ! War is Hell.
Im on 5 now and Le Van Cho of the Vietnamese Army says," The Americans had a weakness,they smoked cigarettes and left a trail of butts (not water) which we could easily track" I mean come on !
The Vietanamese Army also had the better rifle the AK-47, The Americans had the M-16 rifle that kept getting clogged up with crap,and had to keep being cleaned. |
Yes, that point on cigarettes stood out. It's well known that the AK-47 was so robust that it was superior in a hot humid environment.
I've got Monday's two episodes still to watch this week, I'll probably stick one on this evening. | |
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| The Vietnam War. on 11:09 - Oct 18 with 4181 views | Kieran_Knows |
Really need to dedicate a couple of hours one evening/weekend to start watching these. |  |
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| The Vietnam War. on 11:19 - Oct 18 with 4168 views | itfcjoe |
I'm up to 4, that last episode where they just invent a number of deatsh when they can't find any bodies as they';ve been shooting no one- comically sad
The poor black kids having to go or go to prison whilst the rich white boys just stayed at home - no wonder Muhammed Ali kicked off - no Viet Cong ever called me a n*****. So true and the speech holds up so well even now.
That the war couldn't be won in 65, but carried on until 79, horrible. There are no winners in war, only losers |  |
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| The Vietnam War. on 11:23 - Oct 18 with 4152 views | BergholtBru |
It wasn`t raining at 8.45 Benters when you posted this. So how do you justify being "rained off"? I got a couple of hours in before I called it a day! |  |
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| The Vietnam War. on 12:20 - Oct 18 with 4102 views | factual_blue |
| The Vietnam War. on 11:19 - Oct 18 by itfcjoe |
I'm up to 4, that last episode where they just invent a number of deatsh when they can't find any bodies as they';ve been shooting no one- comically sad
The poor black kids having to go or go to prison whilst the rich white boys just stayed at home - no wonder Muhammed Ali kicked off - no Viet Cong ever called me a n*****. So true and the speech holds up so well even now.
That the war couldn't be won in 65, but carried on until 79, horrible. There are no winners in war, only losers |
When one of the military started talking about the kill ratio (10 Vietcong for 1 US soldier or whatever it was), LBJ pointed out that the American people 'don't care about the ten; they care about the one'. | |
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| The Vietnam War. on 13:34 - Oct 18 with 4025 views | Benters |
| The Vietnam War. on 11:23 - Oct 18 by BergholtBru |
It wasn`t raining at 8.45 Benters when you posted this. So how do you justify being "rained off"? I got a couple of hours in before I called it a day! |
It was to the West of the county ba. | |
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| The Vietnam War. on 13:43 - Oct 18 with 4011 views | BergholtBru |
| The Vietnam War. on 13:34 - Oct 18 by Benters |
It was to the West of the county ba. |
Where were you meant to be working? | |
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| The Vietnam War. on 13:52 - Oct 18 with 3987 views | Benters |
| The Vietnam War. on 13:43 - Oct 18 by BergholtBru |
Where were you meant to be working? |
Bishops Stortford | |
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| The Vietnam War. on 13:57 - Oct 18 with 3970 views | BergholtBru |
| The Vietnam War. on 13:52 - Oct 18 by Benters |
Bishops Stortford |
Yeah right, you`re `avin` a laugh surely??? | |
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| The Vietnam War. on 14:32 - Oct 18 with 3922 views | Benters |
| The Vietnam War. on 13:57 - Oct 18 by BergholtBru |
Yeah right, you`re `avin` a laugh surely??? |
Why ? | |
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| The Vietnam War. on 14:37 - Oct 18 with 3915 views | BergholtBru |
| The Vietnam War. on 14:32 - Oct 18 by Benters |
Why ? |
Bit of a way to go to do a garden isn`t it? Hope you charge traveling expenses. | |
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