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2009
| Vietnam and Iraq War veteran John Puzzo has two new books out: K/75th Rangers, ‘The Highlanders,’ in the Viet Nam War, and, Viet Nam and Hollywood. In the 1980’s while he was a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut, John developed an oral history project about the Viet Nam War and the Veterans who fought in it. In 1982 he donated the material to the Connecticut Historical Society, the premier archival repository for Connecticut related scholarship since 1825. Puzzo wrote what it was lik....[more] |
2009
| Quote From, ‘Vietnam and Hollywood:’
“The impact Hollywood has had on shaping American opinion of the Vietnam War and the veteran cannot be downplayed. It is significant, corrosive, beyond truth, shameful, insulting, not accidental, and contributed perhaps more than any other medium to the cultural memory of the war – a contradiction in stereotypes.” Lenin said: "For us, the cinema is the most important of the arts." |
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