"Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of" Topic
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Tango01 | 21 Feb 2020 10:39 p.m. PST |
… Refugee Memory. By Long T. Bui. "Forty-five years on, Americans have written a Vietnam War story that is about them. Historians, journalists, veterans, antiwar activists, filmmakers, and politicians have emphasized the war's impact on the United States military, the home front, and policymaking. When American writers have occasionally incorporated Vietnamese voices into the story, they have come from the National Liberation Front or Hanoi. These approaches to the Vietnam War have marginalized the perspectives of non-communist South Vietnamese, including the refugees who fled Vietnam in the aftermath of war and eventually landed in the U.S. Scholars such as Long T. Bui are working to incorporate these overlooked actors into the mainstream…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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deadhead | 22 Feb 2020 4:46 a.m. PST |
I doubt this is quite as novel and unique as suggested. Is there really such a lack of accounts of the refugees who got out of RSVN or its successor state? Further, whilst I welcome the kind of discussion that might result, I am reminded that this is a wargames forum. I have almost never chucked dice in anger (my WWI 1/72 game and my 1/300 sea/airlanding assaults were universally massacres) but instead collect the figures, take some photos and stick them in a dark attic eventually. How do the members and visitors feel about political, or indeed philosophical, discussions about the VN War on this board? |
FusilierDan | 22 Feb 2020 6:19 a.m. PST |
While it's good to get information to expand our overall understanding of the conflict this forum best used for the aspects it's meant for. That being said here's a movie related to that from the 1980s Alamo Bay link |
deadhead | 22 Feb 2020 6:58 a.m. PST |
Was Ed Harris ever really that young? Never heard of the film but sounds really interesting. Thanks |
Legion 4 | 22 Feb 2020 9:45 a.m. PST |
Yes things could get quite "heated" over some aspects of the Vietnam War. I'll freely admit I am biased in many cases. Being trained and serving with many Vietnam Vets when I started ROTC, '75. Then my time on Active Duty '79-'90, in the Infantry … And I frequently meet and talk to Vietnam Vets even today. E.g. yesterday at a Military Officers Assoc. Meeting/Luncheon at our nearby Airbase. Many Vets of that war were there. I do remember seeing Alamo Bay a long time ago. Found it very interesting. |
Tango01 | 22 Feb 2020 11:37 a.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand
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emckinney | 22 Feb 2020 9:14 p.m. PST |
War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province by Jeffrey Race "This is an account of wartime Vietnam assembled by Jeffrey Race, who as a young soldier, learned Vietnamese, then [returned to Vietnam as a civilian and] interviewed the population as the U.S. was fighting the Vietnamese." "The American troops who came to Vietnam spent precious little time consulting with the Vietnamese themselves, instead chosing (sic) to 'destroy villages to save them.'" "Race reminds his readers that the Viet Minh / Viet Cong were hardly paragons of perfection, but that they cannily exploited American ignorance of the population they were seeking to dominate …" |
Legion 4 | 23 Feb 2020 8:40 a.m. PST |
Those last two statements for better or worse rings true … |
Tango01 | 23 Feb 2020 4:12 p.m. PST |
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