Dear America [View all]

[kiva]

For the third time today I'm watching Dear America, and my emotions are raw. If you haven't seen it, it's a documentary about American servicemen and women in Vietnam, based on their letters. It's one of the toughest videos I've ever watched.

I'm showing it to my students to make these men and women real. I'm showing it so they can see how television news has sanitized war.

The video is cheap and available at many libraries. Most, if not all, of the video is on YouTube in segments. Watch it if you want to see that time through the eyes of the non-elite.