Thanks for sharing that today. I got my son to watch it with me. He liked it and it lead to a long discussion about the origins of the Vietnam conflict.
I took it back to the colonial era, even throwing in a bit of the British/Chinese Opium war, why the French were thrown out and why America could never have succeeded. All at a sixth grade level. Professional historians would have shuddered but I got the basics and used it to tie into the Iraq conflict and to illustrate some problems with the Afgahanistan conflict.
At his age all I knew about vietnam was I liked the model aircraft and I had read a book called "Air War:Vietnam" (I think that was the title). It was a propaganda piece that was Pro American involvement. It took a few years to be deprogrammed from that one.
BTW... If Minnehaha K is reading thanks to you as well for passing it on to Geri.
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Date: 2007-11-22 08:29 pm (UTC)I took it back to the colonial era, even throwing in a bit of the British/Chinese Opium war, why the French were thrown out and why America could never have succeeded. All at a sixth grade level. Professional historians would have shuddered but I got the basics and used it to tie into the Iraq conflict and to illustrate some problems with the Afgahanistan conflict.
At his age all I knew about vietnam was I liked the model aircraft and I had read a book called "Air War:Vietnam" (I think that was the title). It was a propaganda piece that was Pro American involvement. It took a few years to be deprogrammed from that one.
BTW... If Minnehaha K is reading thanks to you as well for passing it on to Geri.
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Date: 2007-11-23 11:26 pm (UTC)K.