A very ugly truth. We seem, as a race to come up with more "modern tech." to wage war, and kill each other. But you have it nailed. I don1t know if you are quoting someone or if it is your own statement, a very true one. If you kill with a sword or an axe in chainmail, you see, hear, smell and taste war just like killing with an automatic machine gun and grenades and artillery. Blood, urine, vimit, raw meat, bone shards, teeth, feces, urine just get strewn about more quickly today. In Vietnam, a G.I. came in from the bush after about 3 months of constant combat. He went to the chow line and got a heap of warm food, his first in a long time. He went to sit down to eat and noticed the whole chow hall was staring at him in silence. He realized he had his left arm around his tray guarding it. He looked at his filthy hands, and his BDU`s were ripped to shit, with nothing even where the seat of his pants were, just his bare ass. Everyone else was starched and clean. He flipped out and left the mess hall. He had become an animal. Only months before he was goofing off at his H.S. football games and trying to get laid. War took all of his humanity from him. I know him.He was a Spec. 4 in the 173rd "The Herd" at that time, but he was soon placed in a different unit. He still has dreams, but they have faded, and some smells bother him. No Purple Hearts, but his mind never got a medal, it got a crash course in brutality.
@davisworth5114
Жыл бұрын
This is the best and most realistic film of the Vietnam War. All Americans should be deeply proud of these young soldiers, who were lied to, betrayed, scapegoated, and abandoned. I was trained as an infantry mortarman at Ft. Gordon, Ga. in the spring of 1966, and then got orders to attend Officer Candidate School. I trained with some of these young men, I was nineteen, and was so proud to be a part of them, I arrived in Vietnam in 1968 as an LT, 2 weeks before the Tet Offensive. God bless these young GIs and all Veterans of that terrible war.
@dpproductionstoys131
Жыл бұрын
Post some content on your channel please.
@lard_lad_AU
Жыл бұрын
The Grunts who served in that meatgrinder that was Vietnam deserve our total thanks and praise. We must never forget what they went through, or how they were treated them when they came home.
@fjb4932
Жыл бұрын
The line forms behind me for pissing on Hanoi Jane Fonda's grave. . . .
@lard_lad_AU
Жыл бұрын
@@fjb4932 I’m with you. Those that spat on our soldiers on returning home should be outed and forced to apologise
@davisworth5114
Жыл бұрын
@@fjb4932 Hey pal, LBJ and McNamara started the war, Jane Fonda traveled all over the US to military bases, entertaining troops and giving support to anti-war GIs, whose numbers were legion. Why don't you whiz on LBJS' grave, it's centrally located in Texas. Besides, Jane Fonda apologized.
@geodes4762
Жыл бұрын
Joe Anderson is a West Point graduate. At USMA in the early 70s, we had a class called Military Psychology and Leadership. This fil was shown in it’s entirety to introduce us to the environment we expected to graduate into. Also shown during this course was another film called the Battle of San Pietro. Both of these films were graphic but show what war is really like-brutal! It also introduced cadets to the many leadership challenges they would face in motivating men to do things that no civilian would ever ask of their workers. Fortunately, none of my USMA class of 1974 had to experience this first hand in Vietnam as the war was over when we graduated. However, it was the Army portrayed in this film that we inherited. The experiences of the Vietnam War were imbedded in our doctrine, our training, our Army lingo and the NCOs and the soldiers were led. It had a major impact our psyche and the future of the Nation.
@ludgatecircus15
Жыл бұрын
My heart smiled when we learned that Anderson survived the war, despite clearly fighting 'deep' into the jungle, etc. He clearly was no desk jockey. Well done Joe!
@bartwhite5768
Жыл бұрын
Welcome home. Alot of Americans will always love our Vietnam vets. Agree with the war or not, they still fought. Hope yall the best. RIP uncle Scott wish I you told me your stories instead of hearing about them
@rowdyyates5345
Жыл бұрын
Media does not portray what war really is. There is no reset button on this game. Unless you have participated you have no idea.
@ilnodon
Жыл бұрын
I remember being allowed to watch "A Face of War" around that time. A documentary of a Marine Rifle Company in Vietnam. Its on here (KZitem) for anyone interested. I watched it again all these decades later. I had not seen nor heard of "The Anderson Platoon". I will search and watch. I joined the Army in 1974...this generation of Soldiers trained me. I'll be forever grateful. Anderson probably would have been at least a Major then. Thanks for posting.
@davisworth5114
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for serving. Peace of Christ.
@jonathanwelter
Жыл бұрын
Welcome home brothers and sisters who served in Vietnam.
@traveltrailerlife
Жыл бұрын
Been There Done That...Doorgunner UH-1...1970-71
@macwing07
Жыл бұрын
My Unit .. I was there as a RTO ( radio operator ) .. I remember the film crew ❗️
@CoffeeorDie
Жыл бұрын
That is amazing! Thank you for letting us know. Perhaps we can connect sometime to hear your stories!
@sethdunlap9868
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this... I often wonder about the horrors my father has to survive through but know better to directly ask. What he has shared is brutal. The lingering effects on his body and conscience are even worse.
@davisworth5114
Жыл бұрын
Take him to Saturday night Mass.
@sethdunlap9868
Жыл бұрын
@@davisworth5114 Saturday?
@seaslob2820
Жыл бұрын
This is one of the best Vietnam War docs. I have it saved.
@davidletz9123
Жыл бұрын
I bought this documentary on VHS, before the time DVD was the standard.
@BrewKatarn
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this, I'd hadn't heard of this documentary before. I'm definitely going to find and watch it ASAP.
@jtatchellhotmailcom
Жыл бұрын
Alright! Been waiting for this! Thanks guys have a good weekend!
@p.a.andrews7772
Жыл бұрын
The enemy never was what we were told on TV or in high school . The enemy of the working-class the military-industrial complex was the only enemy !!!
@dude0311dude
Жыл бұрын
We love our Vietnam veterans.
@roybennett9284
Жыл бұрын
Wish I was younger to watch the Vietnam war on television,I remember the pol pot stuff and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam and Idi Amin on the ABC australia.hate war but fascinated by the twists and turns of conflict,how the British told the yanks don't go there.kind regards Roy Bennett from Wollongong Australia
@eric2685
Жыл бұрын
I've been aware of footage shot by this filmmaker ( and others ) from the French Indochina War . The French ECPA film unit covered a lot , including a rare French victory at Na San , in 1952 . Brave soldiers and brave photographers ...
@f4tweet
Жыл бұрын
God bless the grunts.
@untilvalhalla7854
Жыл бұрын
God bless the Grunts. Oliver Stone got that right.
@dmoney3336
Жыл бұрын
Welcome home to those that served in Vietnam I Pray for all the souls who sacrificed everything and those who came home I pray for salvation and restoration for you all God bless you and yours
@scottweaver7577
Жыл бұрын
I rember seeing it on CBS when I was in the 7th or 8th grade.
@fredericdeshautsdefrance3261
Жыл бұрын
Pierre Schoendoerffer la french touch ...
@astazou1720
Жыл бұрын
Don’t forget the “317eme section” by the same Pierre Schoendorfer in 1966 or 1967. The forgotten french indochina war.
@emmanuelawosusi2365
Жыл бұрын
Great video
@cjthebeesknees
Жыл бұрын
There’s little pride and no honor in fighting distant men who have done our lives no shame.
@OwenGriffin-u5i
Жыл бұрын
OMG, before vietnam their was no TV to speak of, and war coripondent was not yet a thing!
@dpproductionstoys131
Жыл бұрын
See the whole film.
@travismayes4547
Жыл бұрын
Gunner palace is our generations Anderson platoon.
@pyeitme508
Жыл бұрын
Yep
@lastnamefirstname7950
Жыл бұрын
Every war the leaders who started them never fight……….😕
@falconhawker
Жыл бұрын
Correct: that a man who did the gruesome killing required by the USA gvernment should have been treated at home ... like a survivor . Correct: that those who did their job ALSO killed a million UNarmed Vietnamese women , children, farmers.
@p.a.andrews7772
Жыл бұрын
TVs are a BIAS the very rich wanted the working-class to hear !
@mkd7961
Жыл бұрын
wonder what happened to young man who went on r&r? did he come home alive?
@davidwadsworth8982
Жыл бұрын
Anderson's Crispy Critters. Capt is a West Pointer.
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