Ken Burns and Lynn Novick didn’t understand the Vietnam War but they
made the documentary film
Posted on October 2, 2017 Hoa Truong Posted in
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FOREWORD: The writer has no favor to discuss the derailed and biased
facts in The Vietnam War’s film made by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The
debate argues on the wrong issues that are useless and wasted the
time. Therefore, the article analyses the misleading to the public of
the filmmakers and also corrects the Vietnam War’s information after
more than a half-century has been sullied by the leftists in the
Western countries, the domestic thuggeries in the Cold War stood
alongside with Vietcong and the Global Communist Bloc. The writer
would like to send the strong message to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
about the wrongly basic facts in their documentary film, the people
and Vietnam veteran couldn’t find any new in this film, instead the
old propaganda’s fashion that devalues the film and the prestige of
the filmmakers despite both spent more than a decade to achieve.
(Hoa Minh Truong, Vietnam veteran)
In the Western countries respect the knowledge, the experience and the
professional. Except someone cheats the people with the fake
qualification. Mostly the job and career are trained from the colleges
or university. The electrician, plumber, even a chef cook have to
graduate from the school. Every job and career must have the license,
certainly, it is like a mechanic couldn’t do the medical doctor’s
practice or an untrained electrician couldn’t allow working in the
electrical field.
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick achieved the documentary film is the
Vietnam War and released the multiple parts on PBS. Unfortunately, the
filmmakers didn’t know much about the Vietnam War although they made
the film about the Vietnam War, the filmmakers are likely the doctors
couldn’t realize the cause of disease and the virus, so how could Ken
Burns and Lynn Novick convince the people to trust their film? The
documents displayed the facts about the Vietcong, US and allies,
mostly met the Vietcong propaganda those appeared since 1954 and the
documents are not impartial, it repeats as the boring sounds of an old
disgraced song. The information has been used in film The Vietnam War
to be recycled from the rotten materials of the anti-war,
pro-communist movement in the Vietnam War as Jane Fonda, John Kerry,
Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton plus the left media as CNN
(Communist News Networks) and the others in the US, Europe, Australia
(Channel 7, ABC, SBS), all have poisoned the people and have misled
the public, now the toxic still remains in the Western society,
actually in film The Vietnam War performs the obsolete psychological
warfare in the 21st century. The biased document has been dropped the
mask. Nevertheless, once again, the documents repeated and sullied the
American soldiers and the South Vietnam Army (ARVN). They are the
respectable soldiers who fought for freedom and democracy and against
the early terror Vietcong since more than a half-century in the
Vietnam battlefield.
The Vietnam War’s filmmakers have done the last effort of the
pro-communist movement’s vestige, but they couldn’t cover up the truth
because all the facts of Vietnam War unveiled by the victims
(Vietnamese refugee and others), the allies Vietnam veteran, actually
the high technology of internet couldn’t allow the deception as the
Vietnam War’s period again.
Obviously, the Vietnam War’s film posed in the wrong clause, it is
like a building has no basement, so the document drove into the wrong
direction. The original causes of the Vietnam War came from:
1- Vietcong was an early terrorism, they were cruel than ISIS, Al
Qaeda, therefore, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick spent more than 10 years
making The Vietnam War film, they have enough time to collect the
impartial document. Therefore, both just used the documents provided
by Vietcong. As the hard evidence showed off the Military Museum at Mỏ
Cày district, Bến Tre province where displays the Sledgehammer and
below appraised Mr. Nguyễn Văn Thắng, vice district Mỏ Cày who used it
to break the skull of 10 people. The Museum officially opens, the
foreign tourist could come and on the internet, the sledgehammer broke
the skulls of 10 people was available, why didn’t Ken Burns and Lynn
Novick ignore? The Vietnam War film dodged Vietcong was the barbaric
terror’s organization, indeed the most Vietnamese people and allied
knew as well. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick also ignored the death of
165,000 members of ARVN and public servant killed in the hell of
re-education camp after Vietcong claimed the unpredictable victory on
April 30, 1975, and the tyranny regime in Vietnam is the hub of human
rights violation.
2- The cruel policy of the colonial French that causes of the
outrage of the Vietnamese people: after the Second World War, French
wanted to return the Indochina despite the French had not recovered
yet while the Vietcong (Vietnam Communist party) was just a small
group, but Hồ Chí Minh conspired to gather all the people into the
communist movement and he exploited the interim government for
inviting the French coming back by the Franco-Vietnam Agreement on
March 6, 1946. Hồ Chí Minh and French had the same purpose although
they stood the different sides, so the communist collaborated with the
colonial French that created the Vietnam War. After Vietnam communist
party invited French coming back when the first French military unit
landed at the Vietnam shore, Hồ Chí Minh appealed the total resistant
fight against the colonial French for independence, it was a farce but
happened in Vietnam. If the British came to Vietnam, they returned the
independence for the Vietnamese people as India, Malaysia…certainly
the Vietnam War didn’t occur. In the history, almost the old French
colonies fell into the Communist after French withdrew.
3- Vietcong created the war under the order of the Global
Communist Bloc: Since 1959, in the South Vietnam had not any the US
and the ally military unit. However, on May 1959, Hồ Chí Minh ordered
Major General Bùi Xuân Đăng who established the Special Task Force
code 559, they gathered more than 100,000 labourers repaired the
abandoned road linking three-nation of Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia, it was
the Hồ Chí Minh trails where became the main road for the North
Vietnam communist troop invaded and military equipment for the war,
indeed the US just came to Vietnam from 1965. The Vietnam War film
didn’t explain the original cause of the Vietnam War or both Ken Burns
and Lynn Novick didn’t know much about the Vietnam War. Nevertheless,
they tried to ignore an announcement of Mr. Lê Duẫn, the General
Secretary of the Vietnam Communist party (or the Vietnam Workers
Party) who was in charge the Vietnam War. After winning the
unpredictable war on April 30, 1975, Mr, Lê Duẫn said:
“we fought against the American empire for Russia and China”.
Therefore the slogan
“fighting against the American empire” is the cheat.
The Vietnam War’s film doesn’t reflect the genocide the Vietnam
Communist Party since the super terror gang founded on February 3,
1930. The documentary filmmakers lacked the Land Reform Campaign
occurred at North after the Geneva Convention signed on July 20, 1954.
Obviously, Hồ Chí Minh ordered his closest comrades Mr. Trường Chinh
and Hồ Quyết Thắng executed the bloody campaign that the Vietcong
officially confirmed about 200,000 Vietnamese people massacred, but
the numerous victim could estimate about a million. Moreover, Hồ Chí
Minh killed 1,700,000 people, he raped a 15-year-old girl named Tuyết
LAN in 1929 at Thailand and Hồ Chí Minh was the famous pedophile in
Vietnam. Besides the massive massacres, the Tet offensive in 1968,
there was only at Huế city, Vietcong killed more than 7,200 people,
including the foreigners, worked in Huế’s university. The crime was at
the Tiananmen Square in 1989 at Beijing but the most left media
ignored.
The serious crimes of Vietcong couldn’t hide, the picture of Major
General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executed a uniform captain of Vietcong Bảy
Lốp that has used as the peak propaganda of Vietcong, but the leftists
have no explained Mr. Bảy Lốp who killed all family members of
Lieutenant Colonel Nguyễn Tuấn in the Tet’s offensive. (* References).
Once again, The Vietnam War film continues to carry out the tricky
mission of the communist and protects the wrongdoing of the leftists
in the US and the allies. The filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
have not given up the misleading public and continuing to poison the
people, actually the late generations in Western. In Vietnam, the
ideologist and also the iconic herbalist Lê Hữu Trác, alias Hải Thượng
Lãn Ông (1720-1791) who advised:
“It is good to discover the positive of a book, but the best is
finding out the negative”. There is not only the writer recognizes The
Vietnam War film is untrue, biased and met the disgraced propaganda of
Vietcong, but this film has been facing the strong reaction from the
viewers, actually the Vietnam veteran and the concern intellectuals.
Finally, the writer congratulates Ken Burns and Lynn Novick who
spent more than 10 years and money to create the documentary film.
They are courage to make The Vietnam War film despite both have no
much knowledge about the Vietnam War so this film doesn’t bring the
perception instead it conflicts against the truth and the Vietnam
War’s history.
The Vietnam War film based on the wrong facts and repeated the
rotten psychological warfare of Vietcong, so it has not convinced the
people, instead the strong reaction has to have. The anti-war,
pro-communist movement in the Vietnam War buried in the historic
cemetery nearly a half-century ago, therefore the filmmakers Ken Burns
and Lynn Novick try to revive the carcass and transforming to a zombie
is the Vietnam War film.
(*) References: the website UNCENSORED HISTORY (in the title
“Was South Vietnam Police chief Ngoc Loan a bad guy?”) Written
below:
“In the morning of the second day of Tet, January 31st, 1968, when
general Nguyen Ngoc Loan was leading a fierce fight near An Quang
Pagoda in Saigon’s Chinese quarter, two of his officers brought to him
a communist cadre who had murdered many innocents in cold-blood in the
past couple days. He was Captain Nguyen Van Lem, alias Bay Lop.
Minutes before he was captured, Bay Lop had killed ARVN
policeman’s wife and all of his family members including his children.
Around 4:30 A.M., Nguyen Van Lem led a sabotage unit along with Viet
Cong tanks to attack the Armor Camp in Go Vap. After communist troops
took control of the base, Bay Lop arrested Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen
Tuan with his family and forced him to show them how to drive tanks.
When Lieutenant Colonel Tuan refused to cooperate, Bay Lop killed all
members of his family including his 80-year-old mother. There was only
one survivor, a seriously injured 10-year-old boy.
Nguyen Van Lem was captured near a mass grave with 34 innocent
civilian bodies. Lem admitted that he was proud to carry out his unit
leader’s order to kill these people. Lem was in his shorts and shirt.
His arms were tied from the back. The pistol was still in his
possession. General Loan executed Nguyen Van Lem on the spot.
Suggested Reading
1. The Dark Journey: Inside the Reeducation Camps of Viet Cong By Hoa
Minh Truong (Page 131)
2. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and
Military History Edited by Spencer C. Tucker (Page 829)”
- Book of the author: Hoa Minh Truong’s books being sold around the
world, mostly the populated bookstores as Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
Booktopia….
The dark journey: inside the reeducation camps of Viet
Cong / Hoa Minh Truong.
LC Control Number: 2013376006
Brief Description: Truong-Minh-Hoa.
The dark journey: inside the reeducation camps of Viet Cong /
Hoa-Minh-Truong.
238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781609111618 (pbk)
LC Call Number: HV9800.5 .T78 2010
Dewey Number: 959.704/37 23
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(university of Washington DC) introduces as the Textbook to 1,500
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