{"id":1959,"date":"2017-10-05T08:11:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T15:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2017-10-13T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:41:42","slug":"commentary-on-the-vietnam-war-by-ken-burns-lynn-novick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/commentary-on-the-vietnam-war-by-ken-burns-lynn-novick\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary on The Vietnam War by Ken Burns &#038; Lynn Novick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/2017\/10\/05\/commentary-on-the-vietnam-war-by-ken-burns-lynn-novick\/burns\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1960\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1960\" src=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/burns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many of us watched the series and there are as many opinions as there are Vietnam veterans. But the commentary below I found of interest. Feel free to comment via the link at the bottom of this post. &#8211; <em>Roger Young, co-editor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>====================<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Commentary<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakingat70.com\/lets-talk-america\/2017\/10\/1\/burning-history-the-fallacy-of-inevitability-and-the-truncation-of-history\">Burning History: The Fallacy of Inevitability and The Truncation of History<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Final Thoughts: Paradigm shifts regarding the meaning of unwinnable, and the phrase the war ended, are imperative by John M. Del Vecchio<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2017\/09\/29\/veterans-angry-disappointed-following-pbs-vietnam-war-documentary\/\">Veterans angry, disappointed following PBS\u2019 Vietnam War documentary<\/a> by Tatiana Sanchez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/national\/justifying-betrayal-of-vietnam-emerges-as-raison\/90094\/\">Justifying Betrayal of Vietnam Emerges as the <em>Raison d\u2019\u00eatre<\/em> Of Ken Burns&#8217; Film on the War<\/a> by Phillip Jennings &#8211; October 11, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/vietnam-war-documentary-doom-and-despair\">The Vietnam War Documentary: Doom And Despair<\/a> by Bing West &#8211; October 12, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>====================<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Watch the series: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kenburns\/the-vietnam-war\/home\/\">The Vietnam War<\/a> by Ken Burns &amp; Lynn Novick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us watched the series and there are as many opinions as there are Vietnam veterans. But the commentary below I found of interest. Feel free to comment via the link at the bottom of this post. &#8211; Roger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/commentary-on-the-vietnam-war-by-ken-burns-lynn-novick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}