This was one of the best shows of 2017. Yet, when I went to that site here, there was only one post from six days ago. WTF???
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I agree. One of the best mini-series ever produced based on a true incident, April 4, 2004 Black Sunday. I watched every minute of the nail biting production realistically portrayed taken from the pages of Martha Raddatz’s book, “The Long Road Home”. So many young men’s lives lost.
https://www.army.mil/article/196269/the_long_road_home_to_healing_new_miniseries_focuses_on_soldiers_experiences_in_iraq
The Siege of Sadr City
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sadr_City
The recent Ken Burns episodic film The Vietnam War was another one worth watching.
Yes, I was mesmerized by Ken Burns' The Vietnam War, so much so that I've arranged to tour Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand early next year. I was in the National Guard from 1972 to 1978, so my life has been very much intertwined with that war.
My timing was excellent. I got out of active duty on Dec 20, 1972, and in Jan 1973 they announced that we were pretty much out of it. So fortunately I was never sent there.
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The Ken Burns film brought it home by telling the truth about a senseless war. I became so angry when I finally knew the complete truth. I worked nights during the years from 1969 to 1973 and wasn’t very knowledgeable about that far away “skirmish” our politicians were sending our military to fight. I didn’t see the news and my co-workers were just as oblivious as I was. We were young, working, raising a family, attempting to buy that first house, etc. Truth be told we were being fed lies night after night about a war which involved 5 presidential administrations. I can recall the discussion of the Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier fight, but not any about Vietnam. I regret that was so.
The war protesters caught on long before most of us did....also the music. But our military didn’t deserve the treatment they received when returning home....it was the lying presidents and the politicians.
Godspeed on your tour to those places where so much blood was shed along with limbs. Sad state of affairs....over 58,000 lives lost....for what purpose?
True. One of things that made is special is that they interviewed combatants and civilians from both sides. One of the best comments was from a NVA vet. His comment was something about there are no winners in war because so many died.
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The Vietnam War was n excellent series. So informative.
I think that any production by Ken Burns is a must see. All of his films are done beautifully!
I wouldn't feel too bad. Most of us didn't know what was really going on.
I just finished watching tonight. I would recommend it.
Not even sure what the last show on national Geographic that I watched before this.
This is one of the many good reasons there is a site like this. I don't have the National Geographic channel, but I am now aware of The Long Road Home.
You just shared something with us. More of us may now want to take a look at it.
I sometimes get a bit frustrated when I see a particularly good documentary on PBS and come here to see what others think of it. Most of the time there isn't anyone on that board to talk to.
I still post. It's a good way to open up possible discussion.
And that is a good thing.
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Miss Margo,
There is an app: Nat Geotv. You choose your country then your tv provider. “The Long Road Home” is now available on your mobiles. This series affected me deeply just as “Black Hawk Down” did. The last episode in which the reporter/author Martha Raddatz visited the soldiers 10 years after her first interviews in 2005 brought tears to my eyes. I felt such sorrow for those guys. Afterwards I purchased the DVD from Amazon. FYI, another film based on a true event “We Were Soldiers” was simply put....gut wrenching!
Re: “The Long Road Home”: “By the end of the night, eight soldiers would be dead and more than 60 wounded -- the largest casualty count in one day for the First Cavalry Division since Vietnam.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-ambush-black-sunday/story?id=50962302
Thank you so much for the info. I will check it out.
shareI just became furious again!🤬 I was in a hurry when I posted the previous link; as a result I missed the following paragraph:
“Only four days in country, Bourquin's platoon was on a routine convoy escorting sewage trucks when enemy gunfire pinned them down. More Soldiers from the battalion -- and the 1st Armored Division, which was redeploying at the time -- then went in to help, but also faced heavy contact.”
We lost all those soldiers plus so many gravely wounded when they were ambushed while doing “a routine convoy escorting sewage trucks”!!? Good Grief! What is wrong with this picture?