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

Update: 2017-09-28

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Some soldiers in Vietnam fought bravely, and then came home to oppose the war they’d served in. Their experiences are a reminder that Vietnam mixed up American notions of patriotism. As Ken and Lynn explain, we’re still trying to piece it back together.

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In Channel

Preview: 'The American War,' a podcast guide to the new PBS documentary 'The Vietnam War'

2017-09-1103:03

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

2017-09-1822:45

Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”

2017-09-1922:30

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

2017-09-2022:23

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.”

2017-09-2220:49

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

2017-09-2522:04

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.”

2017-09-2728:10

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.”

2017-09-2923:08

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

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

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