I cannot recommend high enough how incredible & import is the #KenBurns & #LynnNovick #documentary #TheVietnamWar. I am in no place to argue one way or another about whether they got "it" right or wrong (though I believe they got it right), but it is a profound window into what happened. So many tragedies. I've seen the film several times & am still brought to tears again & again.

Also, we think the USA is divided now, & it is, but watch the #film & consider today compared to then. Staggering.

One of the more interesting moments in #ScienceFiction #writers #history is when they publicly divided over the #VietnamWar. (See link below to a blogpost by filmmaker Alex Cox.)

If you lived through that era, or if you watched a film like THE VIETNAM WAR by #KenBurns & #LynnNovick, then you know how polarizing the world had become then; perhaps much more so than even today. So, #Scifi writers publicly taking sides isn't all that strange, and yet it also feels strange.

https://alexcoxfilms.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/american-science-fiction-writers-and-the-vietnam-war/