tour of duty was viewed by the network as too violentand realistic so it was slated to be canceled after it's first season. they got so much mail from viet nam vets. thanking them for showing people what it was really like for soldiers who were over there. that they continued the series until the mail stopped flooding in. there were some hard stories told in that series. some were also based on letters that were sent in.
I'm on stand by for china beach as well..but I have not found it yet.
Yes, and that's one of the reasons I love that show: the veterans finally getting some hard earnt recognition! When reading more about things of that war and how the vets got treated at home, how they still suffer diseases from all the crap they got sprayed with etc etc... so effing sad! It can seriously make me cry.
If memory serves I made a topic about that a few years back and many Americans replied, adding info about veterans they know / knew.
The show addressed some serious issues, like the couple of episodes with the black revolt, triggered by this one a-hole and a few Nazi-like whites. It shows how tense it got and how difficult to navigate that situation.
And the drug addictions... Purcell as he was traumatised for accidentally shooting a kid.
Very deep series. I can totally get why the veterans loved it. It shows so many facets of what their life must've been like over there.
I can remember being in the 1st or second grade, that us kids started saying,
say, hey,
get out of our way,
we just got back to the USA.
simply because we thought it sounded cool. no one explained to us what it meant at the time. we just so innocent then. we dint understand the world beyond the slide and the sand box.
to continue with the subject.. all add.
heart break ridge, and fire fox, and the guuntlet
Edited by
Richard
on Sat 08/28/21 08:05 PM
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