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  1. 11-08-2011, 10:59 PM #1
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    Anybody watching Vietnam in HD on the History channel?

    Especially Vietnam veterans. Real? BS? Or what?

    Looks very, very good from where I sit.
    If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
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  2. 11-09-2011, 04:12 AM #2
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    I was hoping McCain would have won potus, then we could have gone back in and got the god damned job done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kc7jty View Post
    I was hoping McCain would have won potus, then we could have gone back in and got the god damned job done.
    Did we ever figure out exactly what that job was?

    Or why?
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    Quote Originally Posted by w0aew View Post
    Did we ever figure out exactly what that job was?

    Or why?
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    Now we need a reason for mass murder?
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    I can't watch it. I'd have flashbacks, and wake up on the road to Winnipeg.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WØTKX View Post
    I can't watch it. I'd have flashbacks, and wake up on the road to Winnipeg.
    It is another glorification of war as imperial policy, not as defense of a threatened nation. A vicarious thrill for them who have no experience with either military idiocy or imperial policy at first hand. I'll pass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W3MIV View Post
    It is another glorification of war as imperial policy, not as defense of a threatened nation. A vicarious thrill for them who have no experience with either military idiocy or imperial policy at first hand. I'll pass.
    Understand that 100%. But where you talk about "glorification" and "vicarious thrill" (I'm sure both are very valid from one point of view), I would talk "This is history...this really happened." Since that was such a massively complex era of history, IMHO, any look at it from a new direction adds to the body of knowledge, opinion, folklore about that era and perhaps the day will come (but I'm not holding my breath) when somehow some sense is made of it. Not just the war, but all that was happening then. And where it has led.
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    How can something be shown in HD when it was never filmed in HD to begin with? Oh, maybe if HD stands for Hellish Death. Mah fellow Amercuns, ah come to you taniaht with ah hevah heart and the latest body count.
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  10. 11-10-2011, 08:26 AM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by kb2vxa View Post
    How can something be shown in HD when it was never filmed in HD to begin with? Oh, maybe if HD stands for Hellish Death. Mah fellow Amercuns, ah come to you taniaht with ah hevah heart and the latest body count.
    Because film was much more "HD" than regular TV, so "In HD" it's like watching the projected film on a big screen.
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