In this episode of Truth About War, Vietnam Army veteran John Cleveland gives voice to the paradoxes of war. John served as a platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. He began his tour in 1970 at one of the darkest, most chaotic times in our nation’s history and described Vietnam as “the Wild West.” Wild, it was. This episode of Truth About War contains explicit language.
LINKS TO FURTHER READING & WATCHING
From Montclair.edu – THE COLLAPSE OF THE ARMED FORCES
By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr.
From Thoughtco.com – VIETNAM WAR AND THE BATTLE OF DAK TO
By Kennedy Hickman
THE LIEUTENANT – TV Series (Preview)
A man of war. A time of fragile peace. This is the set-up for Gene Roddenberry’s The Lieutenant, the tale of a brash and charming Marine lieutenant (2001: A Space Odyssey’s Gary Lockwood) serving at Camp Pendleton under a steely, button-down captain (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’s Robert Vaughn).