by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 26, 2017 | Current Events, Leadership, PBS -- The Vietnam War, Vietnam
Capt Tom Draude, USMC
Republic of Vietnam, 1970
Advisor to Vietnamese Marines
With 1stLt Tri (who had graduated from the The Basic School, Quantico VA)
Tom Draude, BGen USMC (ret) has watched each episode of the Ken Burns series “The Vietnam War” that is airing on PBS he joined us to share his thoughts on the series. Like many, he has watched with interest the interviews with North Vietnamese Army soldiers and Viet Cong fighters; he’s also been keenly interested in how the experience of those who lost family members has been conveyed to the audience.
Draude also talks candidly about post-Vietnam Marine Corps life and how many officers put the experience away and didn’t speak of it, even with subordinates, which in retrospect was a mistakes.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 22, 2017 | Current Events, Vietnam
Kim Holmes
ALL MARINE RADIO
OFFICIAL CHEF
Kim Holmes is the ALL MARINE RADIO Head Chef and is also the son of a C-47 pilot who flew in the Normandy Operation on June 6, 1944. We discuss his thoughts about his responsibility to fight in Vietnam, to registering for the draft and what life was like for a son of a World War II veteran during Vietnam.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 21, 2017 | Current Events, Vietnam
Robert S. McNamara
Secretary of Defense
1961-1968
I received an email from Ohio that asked if Robert McNamara being treated with kid gloves by Ken Burns? He was the arrogant architect of the Vietnam War — is he being given a pass.
We’ll talk about it.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 20, 2017 | Current Events, Vietnam
Bob Nilsson
Capt USMC
Founder, 100 Entrepreneurs Project
Bob Nilsson was Captain of Engineers in the Marine Corps and fought in Vietnam 1966-1967. He reacts to episode #3 of Ken Burns The Vietnam War documentary.
An interesting part of the series is how it has animated the community of Vietnam veterans. Will this be a fair account of a complex war? Or, will it be another screwing-over of the their community?
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by Michael F. McNamara | Sep 19, 2017 | Gender Integration, Vietnam
Montana Man
aka Rob Schwarz
LtCol USMC (ret)
Rob Schwarz joins us to talk about:
(1) The Ken Burns PBS documentary The Vietnam War
(2) The first female Second Lieutenant to get through the Infantry Officer’s Course, what does he think?
(3) His solutions to “The Wall,” “Dreamers” and the “parents of Dreamers”
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