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Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

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In the premiere episode of “The American War,” Alyssa talks to Ken Burns and Harvard professor Fredrik Logevall about Episode One of "The Vietnam War," discussing the stories Americans tell ourselves about what happened to our country during the Vietnam.
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2017-09-1103:03

Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

2017-09-1822:45

Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”

Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”

2017-09-1922:30

Episode 3: “We are behaving like ugly Americans.”

Episode 3: “We are behaving like ugly Americans.”

2017-09-2022:53

Episode 4: “We want the dead to come back to us.”

Episode 4: “We want the dead to come back to us.”

2017-09-2122:46

Episode 5: “I only killed one human being in Vietnam.”

Episode 5: “I only killed one human being in Vietnam.”

2017-09-2220:49

Episode 6: “It's very rare to see a photograph of a person who was in the act of dying.”

Episode 6: “It's very rare to see a photograph of a person who was in the act of dying.”

2017-09-2521:03

Episode 7: “It's torturing me and I needed to tell you this.”

Episode 7: “It's torturing me and I needed to tell you this.”

2017-09-2626:25

Episode 8: “You have these two parallel threads on a collision course and that's where they meet.”

Episode 8: “You have these two parallel threads on a collision course and that's where they meet.”

2017-09-2728:10

Episode 9: “The Marine Corps was the thing that I did that gave me my own confidence in myself.”

Episode 9: “The Marine Corps was the thing that I did that gave me my own confidence in myself.”

2017-09-2823:18

Episode 10: “Let it be.”

Episode 10: “Let it be.”

2017-09-2923:08

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Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

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