This week, Vietnam veterans
sent a letter to PBS, Ken Burns, and Bank of America setting the record
straight about the Vietnam War.PBS's new documentary TV series, "The Vietnam War,"
produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick and funded by Bank of America,
left out key aspects of the war, including the communist connections of
North Vietnamese dictator Ho Chi Minh and the brutal repression after
the war, veterans alleged.
"The whole cause of all this
agony and bloodshed was the aggressive North Vietnamese invasion of the
South. If it hadn't been for that, none of this ever would have
happened," Lewis Sorley, a Vietnam War veteran, historian, and director at Vietnam Veterans for Factual History (VVFH), told PJ Media in an interview Wednesday. "Burns never seems to find that worth mentioning or condemning and I wonder why."
Sorley alleged that Burns and
his fellow filmmakers "had clearly decided that they wanted to tell the
standard left-wing narrative of an unwinnable, unjust war." The PBS
documentary also obscured the evil of communism throughout the war and
afterward. The veteran suggested that presenting the American and South
Vietnamese forces as heroic would be "anathema" to the filmmakers.
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To me communism is just a sophisticated way of stealing from the poor and giving to the rich while claiming to do the opposite as the history of communism shows clearly.
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