The Vietnam War English Subtitles
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Overview:
A comprehensive history of the United States' involvement in the bitterly divisive armed conflict in Southeast Asia.
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The Vietnam War DVD
Release Info:
For DVD special features. OCR'd from DVDs; minimally corrected. (A lot of quotation marks [ " ] kept coming out as II. I caught a few singular quotes [ ' ] that got converted into singular I, but there may still be more.)
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1 00:00:02,836 --> 00:00:04,701 BILL EHRHART: So we're just sweeping through an area, 2 00:00:04,771 --> 00:00:06,830 and there's this little Buddhist temple there. 3 00:00:06,907 --> 00:00:08,738 Pretty small-- one room, had an altar, 4 00:00:08,809 --> 00:00:10,572 vases on it for burning joss sticks, 5 00:00:10,644 --> 00:00:12,077 stuff like that. 6 00:00:12,145 --> 00:00:14,545 And there's a sawhorse there. 7 00:00:14,615 --> 00:00:16,378 We pick this up, and we take turns 8 00:00:16,450 --> 00:00:19,578 using the sawhorse as a battering ram. 9
1 00:00:02,803 --> 00:00:06,102 It is true that of all the agencies in government, 2 00:00:06,173 --> 00:00:09,870 the CIA was the one that focused on 3 00:00:09,943 --> 00:00:14,243 the communist commitments... commitment most intensely, 4 00:00:14,314 --> 00:00:17,977 and decided that these people could not be easily turned, 5 00:00:18,051 --> 00:00:19,712 that bombing wouldn't make any difference, 6 00:00:19,786 --> 00:00:21,515 that they would keep on coming. 7 00:00:21,588 --> 00:00:26,855 Every dry season, 60,000 of them came down from the North 8 00:00:26,927 --> 00:00:29,054 to fight in the South. 9 00:00:29,129 --> 00:00:33,930
1 00:00:03,237 --> 00:00:05,228 CRAIG McNAMARA: It was very difficult for me 2 00:00:05,305 --> 00:00:09,401 to put words into actions as a 19-year-old in college 3 00:00:09,476 --> 00:00:11,444 about Vietnam. 4 00:00:11,512 --> 00:00:15,881 It was a painful, divisive, very difficult time in my life. 5 00:00:15,949 --> 00:00:21,819 It was clear to me in 1968 6 00:00:21,889 --> 00:00:23,948 that the course that we'd taken in Vietnam 7 00:00:24,024 --> 00:00:27,619 was a course that would not be successful. 8 00:00:27,694 --> 00:00:30,458 It was not... would not be successful 9 00:00:30,531 --> 00:00:33,728
1 00:00:12,579 --> 00:00:13,477 JOSHUA MANTZ: There he is. 2 00:00:22,556 --> 00:00:23,545 Hey, Josh. 3 00:00:23,624 --> 00:00:24,818 MANTZ: What's going on? 4 00:00:24,892 --> 00:00:26,086 Good to see you. 5 00:00:26,159 --> 00:00:27,456 Good to see you. 6 00:00:27,528 --> 00:00:29,291 How's everything going? 7 00:00:29,363 --> 00:00:31,263 MANTZ: Our Vietnam veterans, 8 00:00:31,331 --> 00:00:32,821 people like John Musgrave, they've been dealing with this 9 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:35,664 for 40 years, mostly on their own.
1 00:00:23,156 --> 00:00:26,125 JACK TODD: It's really an honor for me to be here. 2 00:00:26,193 --> 00:00:29,754 I'm astonished, actually, that I've been invited here. 3 00:00:29,830 --> 00:00:32,321 It might sound strange coming from someone 4 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:34,697 in my position, but I've always been kind of 5 00:00:34,768 --> 00:00:38,670 an amateur historian of American military history. 6 00:00:38,739 --> 00:00:40,604 I grew up on it. 7 00:00:40,674 --> 00:00:43,472 It's very moving to walk around here 8 00:00:43,544 --> 00:00:45,034 and see the statues of Eisenhower and MacArthur
1 00:00:06,507 --> 00:00:07,940 JOAN FUREY: Being an American woman in a war zone 2 00:00:08,008 --> 00:00:11,205 was a very unique thing. 3 00:00:11,278 --> 00:00:13,974 We didn't talk about sexual harassment then. 4 00:00:14,047 --> 00:00:17,210 But there was always this other element 5 00:00:17,284 --> 00:00:19,115 of people who said, "Well, you're a woman 6 00:00:19,186 --> 00:00:22,553 in Vietnam-- what did you expect?" 7 00:00:22,623 --> 00:00:25,490 I think one of the things that was so offensive about that 8 00:00:25,559 --> 00:00:30,223 is a woman couldn't be seen 9
1 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:10,041 NGUYEN VAN BAY: 2 00:00:24,858 --> 00:00:26,553 NARRATOR: Nguyen Van Bay, 3 00:00:26,627 --> 00:00:28,527 a farmer's son from the Mekong Delta, 4 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:30,756 had joined the Viet Minh as a teenager, 5 00:00:30,831 --> 00:00:34,767 and was eventually selected for pilot training in China. 6 00:00:36,503 --> 00:00:40,496 NGUYEN VAN BAY: 7 00:00:57,558 --> 00:00:59,048 NARRATOR: A visit by Ho Chi Minh 8 00:00:59,126 --> 00:01:02,061 inspired Bay to stick with it, and soon he was flying 9 00:01:02,129 --> 00:01:04,597
1 00:00:05,539 --> 00:00:07,302 RON FERRIZZI: My first place I was stationed 2 00:00:07,374 --> 00:00:09,501 was at Ll Two Bits, and that was in Central Highlands, 3 00:00:09,576 --> 00:00:12,943 in the Bong Son Plain area. 4 00:00:13,013 --> 00:00:16,505 Just enormous, enormous diverse vegetation. 5 00:00:16,583 --> 00:00:21,782 Flocks of peacocks, wild bears, mountain goats, 6 00:00:21,855 --> 00:00:23,550 elephants. 7 00:00:23,624 --> 00:00:25,854 Pink elephants were in the Central Highlands, 8 00:00:25,926 --> 00:00:27,484 because of the clay. 9 00:00:27,561 --> 00:00:29,461 The elephants would roll
1 00:00:11,979 --> 00:00:13,469 MAN: WHEN WE APPROACHED THE TARGET, 2 00:00:13,547 --> 00:00:16,015 COMING DOWN FROM ALTITUDE, 3 00:00:16,083 --> 00:00:18,711 IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THEY COULD PICK US UP ON THEIR RADAR. 4 00:00:18,785 --> 00:00:21,276 I REMEMBER MY KNEES SHAKING, 5 00:00:21,355 --> 00:00:22,879 AND I WAS SAYING, HOLY SMOKES. 6 00:00:22,956 --> 00:00:25,925 I'M GOING INTO WAR. 7 00:00:25,993 --> 00:00:27,517 THIS IS WAR. 8 00:00:28,996 --> 00:00:31,430 I WAS A BIT SCARED. 9 00:00:31,498 --> 00:00:34,695 ONCE WE WENT IN AND THEY STARTED FIRING AT US...
1 00:00:05,172 --> 00:00:06,935 MORLEY SAFER: These are the air-conditioned soldiers. 2 00:00:07,007 --> 00:00:08,770 They work in dozens of different headquarters 3 00:00:08,842 --> 00:00:10,537 and logistics jobs. 4 00:00:10,611 --> 00:00:11,839 One colonel, 5 00:00:11,912 --> 00:00:15,075 the head of information here, has a staff of 45. 6 00:00:15,148 --> 00:00:16,911 The more support troops 7 00:00:16,984 --> 00:00:19,851 there are in Vietnam to support the combat troops, 8 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,945 the more support troops are needed to support 9 00:00:22,022 --> 00:00:24,047
1 00:00:06,406 --> 00:00:11,571 (insects chirping) 2 00:00:11,645 --> 00:00:13,909 (gunfire) 3 00:00:13,981 --> 00:00:15,915 VINCENT OKAMOTO: If a soldier was killed in Vietnam, 4 00:00:15,983 --> 00:00:18,713 and their family lived within driving distance 5 00:00:18,785 --> 00:00:20,377 of Fort Bragg, 6 00:00:20,454 --> 00:00:25,050 then there was a schedule where the padre or the chaplain 7 00:00:25,125 --> 00:00:27,252 or the rabbi 8 00:00:27,327 --> 00:00:30,262 and a young lieutenant would check out a car 9 00:00:30,330 --> 00:00:33,629 and drive to that location.
