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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 2348560, member: 7511"] As someone who grew up during the Vietnam war and experienced the loss of a number of friends and family members during that awful conflict, it is difficult for me to watch the PBS series, although I have watched parts of it, usually turning it off after 20 minutes or so. In my mind, from the U.S perspective, Vietnam demonstrated two fundamental problems for this country: ignorance and arrogance. Our ignorance related to who we were fighting and why. Our arrogance assumed that U.S. military superiority would ultimately defeat the enemy. But the enemy suffered over 2 million killed and wounded in the war, yet still prevailed. I have walked by that long black wall in DC, honoring the sacrifice of 58,000 Americans on four separate occasions, but I have yet to do so without being brought to tears. [/QUOTE]