Pages

0

Media Type

Moving Image

Physical Location

D023.4A

Copyright Statement

WGBH Educational Foundation

Number of Media

1

Language(s)

English

Format

VHS

Time - Hr:Min:Sec

60:00

Digitized in HD?

No

General Note

In the U.S., wartime hostility and wariness have had their post-war counterparts in the attitudes of many combat veterans and former activists in the anti-war movement. The national celebration that greeted the U.S. hostages returning from Iran in early 1981 brought a chorus of protests from Vietnam veterans who felt the country had ignored or denigrated their service, suffering and accomplishments. Issues such as the longterm effect of exposure to the defoliant ^D<'agent orange^D>' and post-traumatic stress disorder began to capture wider public attention. ^D<'Legacies^D>' reviews the impact of the war's conclusion, both in Vietnam, which has experienced widespread political repression, and in Cambodia, which has suffered a genocidal holocaust under the Khmer Rouge's regime. In recent years, the architects and executors of policy during the Vietnam era have reached their respective conclusions about the war's meaning and have offered their respective conclusions about the war's meaning and have offered their retrospective judgments. Many of their statements are woven into this episode, which examines the ^D<'Vietnam analogy^D>' in relation to post-Vietnam political crises in many other global regions. ^D<'Legacies^D>' attempts to assess the present mood and future prospects of the '60s generation-children of the post World War II baby boom who came of age during the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War. How that divided generation defines and implements its responsibilities will be the most significant of all the legacies of Vietnam.