Ken Burns giving us the rest of the Vietnam War story

Episode 1 covered 1858 to 1961, a century of brutal French colonial rule, their hand off to America, and Vietnamese resistance; the crucial origins of the Vietnam War (1959-1975) that our government and media never gave us. Ho Chi Min, the George Washington of Vietnam, was rebuffed by Wilson after WWI, rebuffed by Truman after WWII, and posthumous victor who unified Vietnam in spite of our squandered billions and 58,000 squandered canon fodder. Watching the unfolding catastrophe reminds me of the unfolding catastrophe we experience today in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and other sorrowful lands we're bombing for no valid reason and no chance of success. The war party believes war is the health of the state, but they're wrong. It's the death of the state.

Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn