If you like Documentaries, this one is a MUST SEE! "Letters Home from Vietnam".

[Vibroluxer]

I've never been in battle. I also loved this documentary. Are they mutually exclusive? I don't know but I highly recommend this flick.


Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert each gave the film strong recommendation.[2] Ebert wrote in his review:

"This movie is so powerful precisely because it is so simple. The words are the words of the soldiers themselves, and the images are taken from their own home movies and from TV news footage of the war. There are moments here that cannot be forgotten, and most of them are due to the hard work of the filmmaker, director Bill Couturie, who has not taken just any words and any old footage, but precisely the right words to go with the images. "
The footage includes film from TV news, the Department of Defense and home movies by the soldiers themselves

The plot is very simple and knowing it won't affect how well you like the movie. The "story" ranges from laughter and silliness to doom and fear. HBO was somehow able to collect a boat load of original letters and within those letters, we get to know the author just a bit better as well as their hopes, dreams, fears,.. And the Vets write these letters oh so well. The plot is having famous people read letters that were by Vets in Vietnam and I Highly Recommend it.

Robert Downey Jr.
Brian Dennehy
Howard E Rollins
Judd Nelson
Elizabeth Mcgovern
Mark Harmon
John Heard
Harvey Keitel
Tom Berenger
Matt Dillon
Robin Williams
Robert De Niro
Martin Sheen
Sean Penn
Michael J. Fox
Kathleen Turner
Willem Dafoe
Eric Roberts
Randy Quade

And the news just keeps getting better: It's for free on the Tube:

 

[telleutelleme]

I wrote letters home almost everyday. Communications were very limited. Getting a letter was special. I once placed a letter on top of another crew member's letter, thinking he would grab and mail them when we got to OPS. On the flight I asked if he had remembered to mail my letter. He was startled and said he had only grabbed mine, not both. He was very mad at me and I never did that again. Mail was a tie to what we called "Back in the World". It was important. It is kind of funny, posting on Forums; especially Bad Dog, is a lot like writing a letter.

 

[Vibroluxer]

I wrote letters home almost everyday. Communications were very limited. Getting a letter was special. I onced placed a letter on top of another crew member's letter, thinking he would grab and mail them when we got to OPS. On the flight I asked if he had remembered to mail my letter. He was startled and said he had only grabbed mine, not both. He was very mad at me and I never did that again. Mail was a tie to what we called "Back in the World". It was important. It is kind of funny, posting on Forums; especially Bad Dog, is a lot like writing a letter.

Thanks for letting us know a little bit about your times in the service. Btw, thanks a ton for that. I'm well aware that because of people like you, I didn't have to enlist. Neither has any of my children. Mucho Mucho Gracias.

 

[johnny k]

It has been posted before, but great interview

 

[thunderbyrd]

I wrote letters home almost everyday. Communications were very limited. Getting a letter was special. I once placed a letter on top of another crew member's letter, thinking he would grab and mail them when we got to OPS. On the flight I asked if he had remembered to mail my letter. He was startled and said he had only grabbed mine, not both. He was very mad at me and I never did that again. Mail was a tie to what we called "Back in the World". It was important. It is kind of funny, posting on Forums; especially Bad Dog, is a lot like writing a letter.

Did you once post a photograph here of your unit in Viet Nam? if that was you, i'd really like to see it again.

 

[telleutelleme]

Did you once post a photograph here of your unit in Viet Nam? if that was you, i'd really like to see it again.

Don't think that was me.
We preferred "If you care enough send someone else, I've already been". Image of the squadron patch. 0

 

[Oxidao]

I read this book years ago, and that was an enlightening experience... whatever that means.
Sad

Respect to you all Nam Vets.