Elusive Responsibility For The Vietnam War

Jon Askonas | Sep 22, 2017

He advises, “if you don’t know very much about the Vietnam War, watch this series. If you are an ardent military historian or scholar of Vietnam, watch this series. If you are an American, which this series.”

In his article, Askonas explores the cinematography of the opening scene, with its “throbbing” soundtrack and Vonnegut references. “Burns’ message seems to be that the closest we can get as a nation to repairing [the war’s] dismembering is in acts of remembering,” Askonas writes.

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