World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it is plenty grim and grisly. Audience members may feel like prisoners of war forced to watch a training-torture film.
War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.