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Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

The American War

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The Complications of the Vietnam War

I think both he and I went in with a certain arrogance that we kind of knew this story and we thought we knew what was going on. For ten years that kind of daily humiliation and the humbleness you then feel in the face of that is really terrifically liberating as well. We found ourselves welcoming that complication and going okay let's open it up and let's fix that thing because new scholarship is shown. There were four regiments going down the Ho Chi Minh trail that month but only threeLet's make that right so every day on this production was a kind of glorious oh really, of course it's more complicated for how do we make it and how do we then keep

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