![]() Even now people get killed from small, unexploded bombs. There were different kinds of fragmentation bombs, some the size of a fist. Many people today still have scars from napalm bombs. Toxic chemicals and defoliants were dropped, and a lot of napalm. You may speak now, as there is an audience who wants to hear your truth: Instead of paraphrasing what she heard, I am going to let you hear what these Vietnamese people have to say when they were confronted by American troops. In 19, Martha Hess, accompanied by an interpreter, traveled above and below the 17th parallel, interviewing over one hundred people about their wartime experiences. The title of the book is: “ Then The Americans Came.” It is written by Martha Hess, and was published by Rutgers University Press in 1993. I have a book that I often turn to when I want to hear Vietnamese civilians talk about what they saw and experienced when American soldiers came into their villages. That might be why I find “The Vietnam War” and its seemingly endless parade of soldier and guerrilla talking heads so painful to watch. It took me years to realize that I was dead wrong. Like Burns and Novick, I thought I could learn “what happened” from them. Like Burns and Novick, I also spent a decade working on a Vietnam War epic, though carried out on a far more modest budget, a book titled ” Kill Anything That Moves.” Like Burns and Novick, I spoke with military men and women, Americans and Vietnamese. ![]() Modern war affects civilians far more and far longer than combatants.” Turse goes on to say: Combatants are not the main participants in modern war. His article is titled: “ The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll.” Here is one of Nick’s quotes from early in the article: ” War is not combat, though combat is a part of war. I just got through reading Nick Turse’s article in “The Intercept” for September 28, 2017. Montagnard Village, An Khe, Vietnam 1970.
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