An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the country's support nor glory.An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the country's support nor glory.An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the country's support nor glory.
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Thud Pilots false claim that People against the war sided with the enemy.
I enjoyed listening to the pilots experiences but whoever wrote the narration decided to inject his or her agenda into the film. The narrator, about half way into the film says, ''The Americans back home began to side with the enemy and began to protest.''
Protesting a war is not siding with an enemy of one's country. Many truly patriotic US citizens were against the Vietnam war and they didn't blame the pilots or US soldiers for fighting it. They blamed the politicians who fueled it.
Secretary of War Robert McNamara, after the war said. ''The Vietnam war was wrong, terribly wrong.'' He said this on several occasions after it was over. He realized that it was a Civil War, that the US had no business engaging in. There was no mention of this in the narration script for the film.
France had originally taken Vietnam by force in 1887 in order to grab its resources, they also conquered Laos and Cambodia and it was known as French Indochina. France killed a lot of people grabbing the region. They were finally defeated by the people of Vietnam who wanted to set up their own republic in 1954. The film briefly mentions France being there but doesn't go into any real detail as to the gruesome reasons the Vietnamese wanted them gone.
McNamara as well as many other fear mongers came to realize that our nation should have left them to decide their own future, because that's the way it turned out anyway and they became trading partners with our country. So if the narration wants to point out protesters it would also serve to point out things like this too. .
Patriotic US protesters wanted friendly relations with the world and knew that nations should decide their own form of government. They knew it long before McNamara and other war mongers finally figured it out. But we hear no mention in the film or depth of what protesters were really saying.
Instead, the narration agenda makes an attempt at trying to claim that all people who protested the war were calling our soldiers and pilots ''baby killers'' This is another false belief they are trying to reinforce. Though there were some people who did call them that, there were overwhelmingly many more who didn't. They feared for the troops and saw how they were ineptly being used by the politicians sitting in their comfortable homes in the US.
The film did not need to throw in its divisive agenda with their broad brush statements on the protesters. Real Patriots defend their country from political fear mongers who wage war on countries that have done nothing to our nation, should have been brought up in that segment of the film.
The film could have also pointed out that many of the protesters respected our troops and had brothers and cousins in the military but we refused to sit quietly by, when fools in our government wanted to use them for foolish reasons out of fear of what a communist country might do, especially since we now trade with China.
I think I could have enjoyed this film a lot more if the '' Good verses Evil, US citizen fantasy.'' would have been left out.
One last thing; the Lyndon Johnson southern drawl to the narrator's voice was a little too thick and overdone. It was almost like he ladled it out of a huge cooking pot in homespun southern soup kitchen.
Protesting a war is not siding with an enemy of one's country. Many truly patriotic US citizens were against the Vietnam war and they didn't blame the pilots or US soldiers for fighting it. They blamed the politicians who fueled it.
Secretary of War Robert McNamara, after the war said. ''The Vietnam war was wrong, terribly wrong.'' He said this on several occasions after it was over. He realized that it was a Civil War, that the US had no business engaging in. There was no mention of this in the narration script for the film.
France had originally taken Vietnam by force in 1887 in order to grab its resources, they also conquered Laos and Cambodia and it was known as French Indochina. France killed a lot of people grabbing the region. They were finally defeated by the people of Vietnam who wanted to set up their own republic in 1954. The film briefly mentions France being there but doesn't go into any real detail as to the gruesome reasons the Vietnamese wanted them gone.
McNamara as well as many other fear mongers came to realize that our nation should have left them to decide their own future, because that's the way it turned out anyway and they became trading partners with our country. So if the narration wants to point out protesters it would also serve to point out things like this too. .
Patriotic US protesters wanted friendly relations with the world and knew that nations should decide their own form of government. They knew it long before McNamara and other war mongers finally figured it out. But we hear no mention in the film or depth of what protesters were really saying.
Instead, the narration agenda makes an attempt at trying to claim that all people who protested the war were calling our soldiers and pilots ''baby killers'' This is another false belief they are trying to reinforce. Though there were some people who did call them that, there were overwhelmingly many more who didn't. They feared for the troops and saw how they were ineptly being used by the politicians sitting in their comfortable homes in the US.
The film did not need to throw in its divisive agenda with their broad brush statements on the protesters. Real Patriots defend their country from political fear mongers who wage war on countries that have done nothing to our nation, should have been brought up in that segment of the film.
The film could have also pointed out that many of the protesters respected our troops and had brothers and cousins in the military but we refused to sit quietly by, when fools in our government wanted to use them for foolish reasons out of fear of what a communist country might do, especially since we now trade with China.
I think I could have enjoyed this film a lot more if the '' Good verses Evil, US citizen fantasy.'' would have been left out.
One last thing; the Lyndon Johnson southern drawl to the narrator's voice was a little too thick and overdone. It was almost like he ladled it out of a huge cooking pot in homespun southern soup kitchen.
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- normangrochowski
- Mar 5, 2019
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