At this moment, C-Span 3 is showing a 1967 film “A Day in Vietnam”. This is available on YouTube. The film is intended to educate Americans to the “what” of the war, somehow avoiding the “why”, in order to counter what the film deems as the ignorance and lack of support of the young protesters at home who fail to see the good that U.S. Marines are doing. However, the film cannot help but propagate a number of themes that are supposed to justify American war-making in Vietnam. The Marines are shown as beneficent social workers, a theme that is … Continue reading “A Day in Vietnam” (1967)