Turning Point: The Vietnam War, a documentary series out on Netflix, focuses on the human costs of what was America’s longest war at the time (1955-1975) through interviews with U.S. veterans, Vietnamese survivors, recordings of U.S. presidents analyzing the state of play, and never-before-seen CBS News footage. It destroyed a lot of people's lives and the lives of their families.” “I started to smoke marijuana every day all day to mask, hide the pain and the fear,” Dennis Clark Brazil, U.S. Army veteran, says in the doc. During the war, it was common for U.S. soldiers to impregnate Vietnamese women, and some of those children were on the plane, in the hopes that they would face less discrimination in the U.S.
Author: Olivia B. Waxman
Published at: 2025-04-30 22:40:22
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