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From Mark Ford, founder, Palm Beach Research Group: I was drafted into the Vietnam War, but I never went (that’s a story for another time…). But many of my friends went, and only some of them came home.
When they did come home, we all but ignored them—at least until they’d grown their hair long. We didn’t like what they represented—a war we thought was destructive and uncalled for.
Coming back to an America that didn’t honor them, they kept their memories and thoughts about their experiences private. Some of them still do.
Brothers in War accomplishes three important things:
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It gives viewers a chillingly vivid view of what these young soldiers experienced—an absurdly dangerous and futile situation.
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It explains why, even today, many veterans do not speak about their Vietnam experiences, except to one another—their wartime brothers.
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Most surprisingly, it gives a reason why good people do terrible things in terrible circumstances.
You can watch a two-minute trailer of Brothers in War below:
