Ely Parker, a full-blooded Seneca Indian was at the surrender at Appomattox. Robert E. Lee remarked to him, “I’m glad to see one real American here.” Parker replied, “We’re all real Americans here.”
Blue And Gray, Shoot And Pray
The Vietnam War Documentary, Which Side Are You On?
Just got done watching The Vietnam War, the documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. I found it worthwhile, but at the end of the final episode, after eighteen hours, you’re a bit emotionally spent and I found myself shaking my head and muttering to myself, What a waste. Literally, everyone got fucked. Thirty years, over 58,000 American dead, 150,000 wounded, $111 billion . . . For nothing. A nation divided, an ally betrayed, a people abandoned.