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Message: [QUOTE="Ozimoto, post: 2348716, member: 6677"] Not to go off topic too far, but a funny story about the book "The Naked Ape." It was a reading assignment in my high school health and human behavior class. Since I went to a Catholic High School, the nun in charge of our school book store had a problem with the work "naked" so the course list (which included the names of required books) listed the title as "The Natural Ape." The bookstore was sold out of the book (or at least that's what we were told) so I had to get the book from a regular bookstore. Needless to say I had a difficult time finding it...:) As for the documentary itself, I have enjoyed watching it although some parts are maddening and difficult to get through. I myself was much too young to have been involved personally, but I had a cousin who was a Navy Corpsman on a hospital ship off the coast and an uncle who was a Marine in country. For me, part one was the most informative as I wasn't as well versed in the events in Vietnam immediately after the end of WWII and how the US inadvertently set themselves up for problems by making statements that led former colonies to expect us to support them in their efforts for self determination while at the same time trying to maintain good relationships with former colonial powers from Europe (in this case, France) in an effort to contain Soviet/Communist expansionism in the West. [/QUOTE]