On 21 Jan 2004 09:35:06 -0800,
arty_faque@yahoo.com (Art) wrote:
Re: Vets Pick Their Top 10 (JFK's) Vietnam War Films. JFK's Vietnam
War & How Liberals Spat On Vets.
Sorry but Ike and Nixon started the war when they refused to hold
elections because they knew Ho Chi Minn would win and not their puppet
Diem.
THOM
>arnold_wolfcastle_gupta@yahoo.co.in (Arnold Wolfcaste) wrote in message news:<76bdb568.0401201126.7e88d710@posting.google.com>...
>> Otis Willie wrote in message news:...
>> > Vets Pick Their Top Ten Vietnam War Films
>> >
>> > 1. Hearts And Minds
>> > 2. Go Tell The Spartans
>> > 3. Dear America: Letters Home From
>> > 4. Platoon
>> > 5. Twilight's Last Gleaming
>> > 6. Anderson Platoon
>> > 7. Apocalypse Now
>> > 8. Born On The Fourth Of July
>> > 9. Jacob's Ladder
>> > 10. The Ninth Configuration
>> >
>> > REFERENCES:
>> >
>> > http://members.aol.com/warlib/10viet.htm
>> >
>> > ---------------------------
>> > Otis Willie
>> > Associate Librarian
>> > The American War Library
>> > http://www.americanwarlibrary.com
>>
>>
>> Which film did they highlight how Democrats & liberals spat on Vietnam
>> Vet's after JFK's Vietnam War?
>
>Oh, who cares? It was all just babies crying from their highchairs and
>having "feelings" at people, anyway. Not important.
>
>Those that went and served earned their Constitution, those who set
>fire to the Dean's Office were, and are, inconsequential malcontents.
>
>(One wonders why we even allow them to vote?)
>
>Jacob's Ladder was only a nominal "Vietnam" film, BTW. It was a
>Science-Fiction-Fantasy that had as part of it's backgound some
>Vietnam footage. It's connection to actual events there are at once
>quite exaggerated and quite anorexic.
>
>But then, come to think of it, that pretty much describes all the
>other films on the list, too.
>
>---
>Art