Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Page #3
- PG-13
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- 1987
- 84 min
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Jeez, you know,
this is an 'in' war,
one of the hippest things
in this whole world.
I've read where officers
were quoted as saying,
'This is the only war
we've got.
Don't knock it.'
This war is not going to end
by any one single battle
or combination of battles.
It could be a situation
that could drag out for some time.
Certainly, as the war gets
more intense...
and I feel that it will
in coming the months...
we will suffer
more American casualties.
"Dearest Bev,
last night we had the V.C.
all around us.
Bev, don't ever tell
Mother this,
but at times I feel
I will never come home.
The V.C. are getting
much stronger.
So I think this war is going to get
worse before it gets better.
The days
are fairly peaceful.
But the nights
are pure hell.
I look up at the stars
and it's so hard to believe
that the same stars shine over you
in such a different world
as you live in.
All my love, Al."
"Hello, dear folks.
It's going to be hard
for me to write this,
but maybe it will make me
feel better.
Yesterday
my company was hit
while looking for V.C.
They told me that they needed
someone to identify a boy
they'd just brought in.
It was very bad they said.
So I went into the tent
and there on the table
was the boy.
His face was all cut up
and blood all over it.
His mouth was open.
His eyes were both open.
It was a mess.
I couldn't really
identify him.
So I went outside
while they went through
his stuff.
They found his I.D. card
and dog tags.
I went in and they told me
his name...
Rankin."
"I cried, 'No, God,
it can't be.'
But sure enough,
after looking
at his bloody face again,
I could see it was him.
It really hit me hard
because he was one
of the nicest guys around.
He was
one of my good friends.
No other K.I.A. or W.I.A.
hit me like that.
I knew most of them,
but this was the first body
I ever saw.
And being my friend,
it was too much.
After I left the place
I sat down and cried.
I couldn't stop it.
I didn't think I ever cried
so much in my life.
I can still see
his face now.
Today the heavens
cried for him.
It started raining
at noon today
and has now
finally just stopped
after 10 hours of the hardest rain
I've ever seen.
Love, Richard."
What we've just seen,
in the jungles
of South Vietnam,
is what has aroused
such apprehension and debate
throughout the world.
War is brutal,
and the reaction to it is strong.
This week hundreds of people
demonstrated against it.
Others have voiced
their concern by question and dissent.
Public opinion polls
indicate
that the dissenters are
in the minority,
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