Comments on: Movie Review: The War by Ken Burns http://www.bloggernews.net/111059 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:50:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Skye Saathoff http://www.bloggernews.net/111059#comment-1430483 Skye Saathoff Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:26:38 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111059#comment-1430483 To Ken Burns: Yes I am a Disabled Vietnam Veteran, and I have had problems ever since that War and I vist the Veterans Hospital almost on a weekly basis, for my own needs and others. I have talked with many a Vietnam Veteran, and all have told me the same thing that nobody ever cared about us. We were just boys and girls when we went over there. We didn;t know what we were getting ourselves into, and because of that we lost over 58,000 of those boys and girls over there, but does anyone care? No one about us even today, maybe people still see us as losers. But it still hurts to tears for us Vietnam Veterans.I know you do Documentaries, I wish you could do a Documentary of how us Vietnam Veterans feel today. I would truly love to give everyone out there a piece of my mind.I have been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for years because of that War, and its only because of the Grace of God that I'm still here. Ken we are still hurting. I hear it everytime I go to the Veterans Hospital here in San Antonio Texas.Could you help us Forgotten Vietnam Veterans? To finally have our Country recognize us and Love us. For an Examole I wore a T-Shirt that I had made up which said on the front "VIETNAM VET" under that said 1969-1970, and on the back was the bases i was at. Phu Cat, Cam Rahn Bay, and Phan Rang. I wore this T-Shirt everday for six weeks straight. I washed it out everynight. I wore it to all kinds of functions where alot of people were gathered. I did my own survey. Well in six weeks I still got the same look i got forty years ago. A look of disgust. people ignored me like I had somekind of disease or something. Not one person ever came up to me and said at least thank you. I cried many of nights in my pillow because of that. So I stopped wearing it for my own health. How can so many treat us that way trying to defend this country? We have never recovered from that Ken. Can You Do Something. Not just for me, but for at least those 58,000 who lost their young lives over there, and for us who are still in pain today both emotionally and physcially. I was 19 years old when I went over there, and now I am 61, and I still the pain of it after all these years. I hope my emotionally plea sparks a response from you. Thank You and God Bless You, From A tired Vietnam Veteran, Skye! To Ken Burns: Yes I am a Disabled Vietnam Veteran, and I have had problems ever since that War and I vist the Veterans Hospital almost on a weekly basis, for my own needs and others. I have talked with many a Vietnam Veteran, and all have told me the same thing that nobody ever cared about us. We were just boys and girls when we went over there. We didn;t know what we were getting ourselves into, and because of that we lost over 58,000 of those boys and girls over there, but does anyone care? No one about us even today, maybe people still see us as losers. But it still hurts to tears for us Vietnam Veterans.I know you do Documentaries, I wish you could do a Documentary of how us Vietnam Veterans feel today. I would truly love to give everyone out there a piece of my mind.I have been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for years because of that War, and its only because of the Grace of God that I’m still here. Ken we are still hurting. I hear it everytime I go to the Veterans Hospital here in San Antonio Texas.Could you help us Forgotten Vietnam Veterans? To finally have our Country recognize us and Love us. For an Examole I wore a T-Shirt that I had made up which said on the front “VIETNAM VET” under that said 1969-1970, and on the back was the bases i was at. Phu Cat, Cam Rahn Bay, and Phan Rang. I wore this T-Shirt everday for six weeks straight. I washed it out everynight. I wore it to all kinds of functions where alot of people were gathered. I did my own survey. Well in six weeks I still got the same look i got forty years ago. A look of disgust. people ignored me like I had somekind of disease or something. Not one person ever came up to me and said at least thank you. I cried many of nights in my pillow because of that. So I stopped wearing it for my own health. How can so many treat us that way trying to defend this country? We have never recovered from that Ken. Can You Do Something. Not just for me, but for at least those 58,000 who lost their young lives over there, and for us who are still in pain today both emotionally and physcially. I was 19 years old when I went over there, and now I am 61, and I still the pain of it after all these years. I hope my emotionally plea sparks a response from you. Thank You and God Bless You, From A tired Vietnam Veteran, Skye!

]]> By: simon1288 http://www.bloggernews.net/111059#comment-638267 simon1288 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:29:03 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111059#comment-638267 "No one has ever made a documentary which can compare with one Ken Burns has done. No one ever will." As much an admirer of Ken Burn's work as I am, for me (and many others) Jeremy Isaac's 1970s World At War series is still the finest documentary made about WW2. The Civil War is still stands as Mr Burns's finest piece of documantary film-making. “No one has ever made a documentary which can compare with one Ken Burns has done. No one ever will.”

As much an admirer of Ken Burn’s work as I am, for me (and many others) Jeremy Isaac’s 1970s World At War series is still the finest documentary made about WW2.
The Civil War is still stands as Mr Burns’s finest piece of documantary film-making.

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