Turning Point The Vietnam War S01E04 - Why Are We Even Here (Awafim.tv) Subtitles

At 00:00:01,110, Character said: DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.AWAFIM.TV

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At 00:00:06,110, Character said: [gloomy music playing]

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At 00:00:20,082, Character said: [Chic Canfora] Having grown up
with a mother and father

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At 00:00:22,376, Character said: who both served in World War II,

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At 00:00:25,379, Character said: for me,
war was like the John Wayne movies.

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At 00:00:29,008, Character said: {\an8}We're gonna hold this town
till the link-up does come,

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At 00:00:32,053, Character said: {\an8}whenever it is.

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At 00:00:33,012, Character said: {\an8}Today, tomorrow, till hell freezes over.

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At 00:00:36,307, Character said: [crowd cheering]

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At 00:00:38,225, Character said: [Canfora] It was your duty,
and it was a privilege,

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At 00:00:41,520, Character said: and we were always fighting
on the side of right.

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At 00:00:44,440, Character said: America was always the good guys.

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At 00:00:47,485, Character said: {\an8}But the harsh reality
of what war really was

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At 00:00:50,112, Character said: {\an8}was very different from what I'd seen
in my mother's Army scrapbooks,

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At 00:00:54,575, Character said: where my mother was the football queen
at the Army-Navy game.

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At 00:01:00,539, Character said: War is a very scary thing,

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At 00:01:02,875, Character said: especially as we faced
high school graduation.

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At 00:01:08,422, Character said: ♪ Gee, I wish... ♪

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At 00:01:09,673, Character said: [Canfora] I could name
one name after another

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At 00:01:12,510, Character said: of my brother's friends
who went off to fight.

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At 00:01:17,139, Character said: And their letters to my brother
and to me were very, very different.

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At 00:01:23,646, Character said: To me, the letters always had
the number of days left.

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At 00:01:26,816, Character said: They were counting the days
before they would come home.

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At 00:01:30,694, Character said: For my brother, they were describing
the realities of what they were doing.

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At 00:01:35,491, Character said: Horrific realities.

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At 00:01:41,664, Character said: And the reality
of what that war represented,

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At 00:01:45,459, Character said: and what conversations
about the war resulted in,

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At 00:01:49,213, Character said: began to hit us.

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At 00:01:51,423, Character said: Things were just not right in America.

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At 00:01:56,512, Character said: Everything that I admired
about our country,

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At 00:02:00,141, Character said: everything that I associated
with the American dream,

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At 00:02:03,269, Character said: everything I associated with America,
right or wrong, it was just disappearing.

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At 00:02:10,359, Character said: And it made it a lot easier
to take a stand against my own government.

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At 00:02:18,868, Character said: At that point, you had to make a choice.

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At 00:02:20,995, Character said: Are you willing
to put your life on the line?

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At 00:02:24,874, Character said: And for many of us, it was.

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At 00:02:27,209, Character said: It was worth the risk.

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At 00:02:32,089, Character said: [ominous music playing]

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At 00:02:34,717, Character said: [air raid siren wails]

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At 00:02:37,469, Character said: [soldiers chanting indistinctly]

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At 00:02:58,365, Character said: [jet engine droning]

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At 00:03:01,660, Character said: [missiles firing]

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At 00:03:02,620, Character said: [explosions rumbling]

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At 00:03:15,758, Character said: [jet engine droning]

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At 00:03:22,056, Character said: [Viet Thanh Nguyen]
The United States did an incredible job

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At 00:03:24,600, Character said: keeping track of the amount of bombs
it dropped on Vietnam.

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At 00:03:28,979, Character said: {\an8}That's how we know
the United States dropped more bombs

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At 00:03:31,690, Character said: {\an8}on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

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At 00:03:33,525, Character said: {\an8}than it did
in all of World War II on Europe.

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At 00:03:36,612, Character said: {\an8}[explosions rumbling]

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At 00:03:39,907, Character said: {\an8}[Lien-Hang T. Nguyen] You have around
seven million tons of bombs dropped

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At 00:03:43,244, Character said: {\an8}over the countries of Indochina.

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At 00:03:45,746, Character said: {\an8}This included anywhere
from 500,000 to 600,000 tons of bombs

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At 00:03:49,583, Character said: {\an8}dropped over Cambodia,

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At 00:03:51,794, Character said: {\an8}two million over Laos,

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At 00:03:54,588, Character said: {\an8}one million over North Vietnam,

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At 00:03:56,632, Character said: {\an8}and over four million dropped
over South Vietnam.

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At 00:04:05,391, Character said: {\an8}I shall not seek, and I will not accept,
the nomination of my party

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At 00:04:10,145, Character said: {\an8}for another term as your president.

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At 00:04:13,440, Character said: [Ken Hughes]
After Lyndon Johnson announces

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At 00:04:15,109, Character said: that he's not gonna seek another term,

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At 00:04:17,653, Character said: he announces that he is going
to stop bombing North Vietnam

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At 00:04:21,365, Character said: if the North Vietnamese will agree
to prompt, productive peace talks.

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At 00:04:30,291, Character said: {\an8}In May,
the negotiating team meets in Paris.

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At 00:04:34,920, Character said: {\an8}And in October,

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At 00:04:36,088, Character said: {\an8}Johnson finally gets the North Vietnamese
to accept his conditions.

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At 00:04:42,219, Character said: [reporter] On the afternoon of October 27,

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At 00:04:45,306, Character said: word came from Paris

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At 00:04:46,640, Character said: that Hanoi would accept
the terms for a bombing halt.

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At 00:04:50,311, Character said: [Hughes] So Johnson agrees
to halt the bombing.

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At 00:04:54,982, Character said: [Johnson] Good evening,
my fellow Americans.

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At 00:04:57,609, Character said: I have now ordered

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At 00:05:02,031, Character said: {\an8}that all air, naval,
and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam

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At 00:05:07,619, Character said: {\an8}cease... as of 8:00 a.m.,

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At 00:05:11,165, Character said: {\an8}Washington time, Friday morning.

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At 00:05:15,502, Character said: [C. Jack Ellis] Those of us
who served in Vietnam,

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At 00:05:19,923, Character said: we obviously were hopeful.

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At 00:05:22,718, Character said: [helicopter whirring]

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At 00:05:23,802, Character said: [Ellis] Every day,
young men getting killed,

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At 00:05:26,638, Character said: {\an8}young men getting wounded.

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At 00:05:29,808, Character said: We just want to get out of here now.

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At 00:05:31,685, Character said: [voice speaks indistinctly on radio]

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At 00:05:33,479, Character said: - [birds trill]
- [insects chirp]

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At 00:05:35,522, Character said: [Ellis] We were fighting not for victory,
we were fighting to go home.

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At 00:05:41,445, Character said: [crowd] Peace!

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At 00:05:42,279, Character said: - [man] When do we want it?
- [crowd] Now!

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At 00:05:44,073, Character said: - [man] What do we want?
- Peace!

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At 00:05:45,699, Character said: - When do we want it?
- Now!

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At 00:05:48,118, Character said: [Hughes] Americans get excited

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At 00:05:49,620, Character said: about there being
a bombing halt and peace talks.

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At 00:05:52,998, Character said: [chanting] ...now! Peace now! Peace now!

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At 00:05:55,834, Character said: Peace now! Peace now! Peace...

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At 00:05:58,420, Character said: [Hughes] This is
shortly before the 1968 election.

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At 00:06:02,508, Character said: {\an8}[marching band playing patriotic music]

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At 00:06:07,179, Character said: {\an8}The President of the United States
and his ambassadors

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At 00:06:11,767, Character said: {\an8}are making a determined...

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At 00:06:15,729, Character said: {\an8}major, massive effort
to find an honorable peace in Paris.

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At 00:06:20,317, Character said: [uneasy music playing]

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At 00:06:23,946, Character said: [Hughes] At this point,
the major candidates

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At 00:06:26,407, Character said: are Hubert Humphrey,
Johnson's vice president,

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At 00:06:29,159, Character said: as the Democratic nominee,

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At 00:06:31,245, Character said: and Richard Nixon for the Republicans.

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At 00:06:35,999, Character said: [Dan Rather] Richard Nixon had run
for president in 1960

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At 00:06:38,502, Character said: {\an8}and been defeated
by President John Kennedy.

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At 00:06:41,171, Character said: {\an8}But he had slowly and meticulously
fought his way back

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At 00:06:44,675, Character said: into prominence in the Republican Party.

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At 00:06:47,386, Character said: It's a heartland state.

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At 00:06:49,096, Character said: Uh, whoever wins Indiana has a good chance
to win the rest of the heartland

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At 00:06:52,349, Character said: and therefore the country.

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At 00:06:53,767, Character said: [Rather] But the biggest thing
that Nixon had to sell,

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At 00:06:56,562, Character said: and he sold it very well,

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At 00:06:58,355, Character said: was that he would end the war.

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At 00:07:00,816, Character said: [Nixon] I say the time has come

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At 00:07:02,067, Character said: for the American people
to turn to new leadership,

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At 00:07:04,570, Character said: not tied to the policies
and mistakes of the past.

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At 00:07:07,739, Character said: [rapid gunfire]

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At 00:07:10,075, Character said: [Nixon] I pledge to you, we shall have
an honorable end to the war in Vietnam.

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At 00:07:17,207, Character said: {\an8}But he really is not forthcoming

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At 00:07:19,084, Character said: {\an8}with-- with any, um, strategy
for ending the war

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At 00:07:22,754, Character said: {\an8}throughout the course of the '68 campaign.

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At 00:07:26,175, Character said: If a candidate for president
who might be president says

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At 00:07:29,052, Character said: that, "If negotiations fail,
I will do this or that,"

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At 00:07:32,097, Character said: the people on the other side
of the negotiating table

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At 00:07:34,224, Character said: will say, "Well, we'll wait for him,"

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At 00:07:36,018, Character said: rather than negotiate
with President Johnson.

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At 00:07:38,228, Character said: But peace is too important
for politics as usual.

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At 00:07:41,273, Character said: So I say, let's let
the President of the United States...

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At 00:07:44,151, Character said: [crowd...