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Oliver Stone talks about how serving in Vietnam changed him. (1992)

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Oliver Stone talks about how serving in Vietnam changed him. (1992)

Oliver Stone talks about how serving in Vietnam changed him. (1992) from OldSchoolCool




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  • ZumeZume

    I can’t remember the name of it but there’s a documentary that’s simply a group of Veterans in a hotel conference centre recounting their war experiences…. I couldn’t finish it, some of the things they had witnessed and done were pretty harrowing.

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  • chrome-spokes

    Stone speaks truth here. An old saying from the Vietnam War era…”Love my country, fear my government”.

    These days, sadly, I now fear both at how divided it all is, govt. & people.

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  • mjbat7

    Maybe Old School Cool, but his fauning interview of Putin was the cringiest thing I’ve ever seen. Dude made himself a tool of propaganda.

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  • Confident_Fortune_32

    It was strange to me, as a child: the adults all got troubled and quiet and stared at the floor when news came on about it, but wouldn’t explain to me what they were so troubled about.

    School/history class (“social studies”) was carefully scrubbed nonsense, so that didn’t help, either.

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  • Professor-Shuckle

    My grandfather served in ww2 and Korea. If asked about his experiences he would change the subject. He also made it clear he didn’t want any of his kids or grandkids to join the military. I know he was at Iwo Jima and the battle of Inchon so he had to have seen real shit. My dumb kid ass asked him if he ever killed anyone

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  • iwasadeum

    And his exposure to the horrors of war were extremely limited. He served long enough to see the horrors, but briefly enough to escape before becoming numb to those horrors.

    Curiosity got the better of me in Jr highschool, and I saw a number of beheading videos that still traumatize me to this day, as a 30 year old adult. I can recall, in great detail, every visual and auditory element of these videos. When I say beheading, I’m not talking guillotine, clean sword cuts, machetes etc. (Though I saw some of those). I’m talking brutal, close up beheadings with knives (the sawing, slow, brutal kind, where the victim screams, pukes through their gaping neck wound, etc…).

    Lesson being, do NOT seek out brutality and inhumanity and gore. It’s out there, and it will traumatize you, or numb you to the brutality of humanity. Both are equally awful outcomes. I cannot imagine how traumatized I’d be to see this stuff in person, rather than through a digital image/video on a computer monitor.

    Nothing but respect for soldiers who are, IN-PERSON, subject to this horrible reality. But if you’re just some casual, peaceful observer in a peaceful nation, do yourself a favor, and DO NOT seek this shit out.

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