Vietnam remembrance

The exceptionally well-presented “Vietnam” is a classic PBS documentary. Flying choppers, rifle fire and hearing the Vietnamese language bring it all back in vivid living color for me.

A generation is said to be 20 years. The Vietnam War ended two-and-ahalf generations ago. Watching this documentary would give newer generations the impression America was the unwanted hooch-burning civilian-killing aggressor in a war we never should have fought and could not have won. It gives the impression draft card-burning, Pentagon-storming antiwar activities were virtuous and we the American military immoral.

To anyone who has questions about the war, go to NW 23 and Classen Blvd. in Oklahoma City. Stand before the Vietnam-American War Memorial given to Oklahoma City by the Vietnamese themselves July 8. The Vietnamese speaker thanked America for its sacrificial effort in blood and treasure to defend South Vietnam from the communist aggressor. It was pointed out that the two soldiers on the monument, one Vietnamese, one American, stand looking away from each other signifying they fought together each looking out for the other’s back.

Lingering forever as America’s most divisive war, save the Civil War, Americans will never agree about Vietnam. Documentaries like “Vietnam” seemingly attempt to give an unbiased perspective, but PBS just can’t help tilting left to the detriment of truly objective journalism. C. Dale German, Bethany