Florentine Films

Riding the Tiger (1961-1963)

[rtoc] 00:00:00 Con Thien, South Vietnam, Fall 1967. John Musgrave: Listening Post assignment here was scariest thing he did. Story of signalling with keying on handset – enemy too close to communicate verbally. Still afraid of the dark. Kids found out Dad had been in war when they asked “Why do we need to outgrow …

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Déjà Vu (1858-1961)

[rtoc] 00:00:55 Karl Marlantes: “Coming home from Vietnam was as close to traumatic as the war itself. For years noone talked about Vietnam … like living in a house with an alcoholic father (Shhh! we don’t talk about that) … It’s only been very recently that the baby boomers have started to say ‘What happened?’ …

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