Turning Point The Vietnam War S01E03 - Life Is Cheap (Awafim.tv) Subtitles

At 00:00:02,069, Character said: DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.AWAFIM.TV

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At 00:00:07,069, Character said: [pensive piano music plays]

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At 00:00:20,458, Character said: [Keith Kay] A lot of people say
that Vietnam was television's war.

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At 00:00:27,465, Character said: {\an8}No other war had been shown
in this detail.

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At 00:00:30,760, Character said: I'm losing too many men.
If we were to stay here too much longer,

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At 00:00:33,637, Character said: we-- we wouldn't have much left
of this platoon,

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At 00:00:36,057, Character said: let alone the company.

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At 00:00:38,934, Character said: {\an8}[Kay] Jack Laurence was
a television correspondent,

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At 00:00:42,146, Character said: {\an8}and we were working together.

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At 00:00:44,690, Character said: We decided that the war
could speak for itself

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At 00:00:49,153, Character said: if the people who were fighting it
could speak for themselves.

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At 00:00:53,616, Character said: So we focused on the kids in the field.

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At 00:00:56,577, Character said: {\an8}I can't say that I'm scared stiff,
but I'm scared.

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At 00:00:59,580, Character said: {\an8}I mean, after a while,

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At 00:01:01,082, Character said: {\an8}you know what's gonna come,
and you can't do nothing about it,

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At 00:01:03,667, Character said: {\an8}and you just look to God.
It's about the only thing you can do.

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At 00:01:07,421, Character said: [Kay] And what they were doing
was following orders.

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At 00:01:10,424, Character said: They didn't understand the orders,

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At 00:01:12,760, Character said: but they understood
that they were bound by oath

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At 00:01:16,639, Character said: to carry out those orders, and they did.

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At 00:01:20,601, Character said: The rifles have been jamming.

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At 00:01:21,977, Character said: The-- The mud's been, uh...
slowed everything down,

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At 00:01:25,314, Character said: and the artillery comes in everywhere,

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At 00:01:27,775, Character said: and, uh, it just gets pretty futile
and frustrating sometimes.

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At 00:01:31,737, Character said: {\an8}[Kay] And they were kids,
and we were kids.

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At 00:01:37,535, Character said: And we felt an affinity for them.

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At 00:01:41,914, Character said: We were told about these kids
who would sit on top of their bunker

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At 00:01:46,585, Character said: and sing
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone,"

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At 00:01:48,587, Character said: so we went up and did a story
on these kids who did it.

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At 00:01:52,925, Character said: And even in the V-ring,
life goes on at Khe Sanh.

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At 00:01:55,761, Character said: ♪ Young girls, picked them, every one ♪

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At 00:01:59,974, Character said: ♪ When will they ever learn? ♪

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At 00:02:07,773, Character said: [plane engine roars overhead]

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At 00:02:10,526, Character said: [Laurence] I notice you sing out,
"When will they ever learn?"

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At 00:02:15,114, Character said: Uh, this is probably the favorite song
around the V-ring.

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At 00:02:19,577, Character said: Do the words have special meaning, or...

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At 00:02:21,537, Character said: or is it just a good song
for homesick soldiers?

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At 00:02:25,332, Character said: "Homesick Marines," I'm sorry.

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At 00:02:27,501, Character said: Well, I suppose it's a little bit of both.
I mean, it sort of makes sense,

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At 00:02:30,671, Character said: uh, to us anyway,

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At 00:02:32,506, Character said: that people should catch on
to what's going on here,

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At 00:02:34,967, Character said: and... all this protesting back home
kind of bothers us.

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At 00:02:39,054, Character said: But you'd think they'd learn
after a while about these wars and stuff.

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At 00:02:44,435, Character said: [pensive piano music resumes playing]

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At 00:02:46,812, Character said: [Kay] We never learn from history.

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At 00:02:50,399, Character said: You know, history repeats itself.

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At 00:02:52,401, Character said: When-- When you see Afghanistan and Iraq,

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At 00:02:57,156, Character said: it's the same scenes
that I shot in Vietnam,

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At 00:03:01,368, Character said: this time being shot
by some other photographer.

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At 00:03:04,246, Character said: [sweeping sentimental music plays]

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At 00:03:06,582, Character said: [camera shutter clicks]

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At 00:03:12,671, Character said: [camera shutter clicks]

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At 00:03:17,593, Character said: [Kay] As a journalist, we were trying
to show what this war did to kids.

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At 00:03:21,513, Character said: [explosion]

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At 00:03:22,556, Character said: [Kay] We didn't care
about the generals or the commanders.

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At 00:03:25,851, Character said: We didn't care about the politicians.

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At 00:03:28,771, Character said: We just wanted to show what it was doing

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At 00:03:31,482, Character said: to people that we were standing
or crouching beside.

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At 00:03:38,197, Character said: [intriguing music plays]

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At 00:03:40,324, Character said: [air raid sirens wail]

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At 00:04:14,566, Character said: [reporter] What sort of a president
do you think you personally would make

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At 00:04:17,403, Character said: for South Vietnam?

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At 00:04:18,654, Character said: [Nguyễn Văn Thiệu] The most important
for me, if I were to be elected,

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At 00:04:22,700, Character said: {\an8}and as I think for any future leaders,

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At 00:04:26,412, Character said: {\an8}is, uh, to organize
the stronger political life

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At 00:04:31,041, Character said: {\an8}in-- in Vietnam.

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At 00:04:32,626, Character said: {\an8}Because, uh, if we have
a not stronger political life,

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At 00:04:36,171, Character said: {\an8}we cannot win the war against Communists.

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At 00:04:42,678, Character said: {\an8}[George J. Veith] In September of '67,
there was an election

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At 00:04:45,556, Character said: {\an8}for the presidency and vice presidency
of South Vietnam.

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At 00:04:50,686, Character said: [reporter] Despite well-publicized threats
of Việt Cộng terror tactics,

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At 00:04:54,189, Character said: 83% of the nation's registered voters
flocked to the polling places

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At 00:04:58,152, Character said: to cast their ballots.

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At 00:05:02,114, Character said: {\an8}Thiệu wins the presidency,

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At 00:05:03,949, Character said: {\an8}and former premier Kỳ,
the vice presidency.

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At 00:05:08,120, Character said: {\an8}[Tuong Vu] President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu

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At 00:05:09,663, Character said: {\an8}was born of an ordinary family
in southern-central Vietnam.

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At 00:05:15,252, Character said: [intriguing music swells and intensifies]

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At 00:05:17,421, Character said: He joined the National Vietnamese Army
under French leadership.

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At 00:05:23,677, Character said: {\an8}Thiệu, different.

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At 00:05:26,430, Character said: {\an8}This guy is different.

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At 00:05:30,017, Character said: {\an8}He's a soldier.

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At 00:05:31,185, Character said: Poor, like the other soldiers.

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At 00:05:33,812, Character said: Coming from the rank to become a general,

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At 00:05:38,525, Character said: Thiệu is the smartest general
in the South.

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At 00:05:41,737, Character said: The smartest one.

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At 00:05:47,451, Character said: He was also politically astute.

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At 00:05:51,997, Character said: {\an8}He was able to bring order
into the country

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At 00:05:56,043, Character said: {\an8}after four years of chaos,

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At 00:05:58,545, Character said: after the coup of Ngô Đình Diệm.

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At 00:06:01,215, Character said: And he also oversaw
the creation of a new republic

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At 00:06:06,011, Character said: with the most democratic constitution
Vietnam ever had.

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At 00:06:12,768, Character said: {\an8}[Nhã] When Mr. Thiệu became president,
I became his chief of staff.

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At 00:06:17,481, Character said: {\an8}I was focused on how we could leverage
the help of the Americans,

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At 00:06:22,027, Character said: but also tell the Americans,

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At 00:06:24,071, Character said: "Let's agree on a common strategy
and how to execute that."

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At 00:06:29,284, Character said: But by that time,
the politics g***t involved.

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At 00:06:33,205, Character said: This fella, Thiêu, um,

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At 00:06:35,124, Character said: most of the people think--

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At 00:06:36,542, Character said: I'm not very good at evaluating,

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At 00:06:38,460, Character said: but most of the folks think,
Westmoreland and-- and Bunker and them...

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At 00:06:45,217, Character said: {\an8}they think that Thiệu
is going to be better than Kỳ.

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At 00:06:50,180, Character said: And I've been suffering
a terrific onslaught.

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At 00:06:54,476, Character said: Our own people plucking
that we ought to get out of the war,

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At 00:06:57,521, Character said: and that they're not dependable,
and that the generals are taking over,

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At 00:07:01,191, Character said: and-- and, uh, it's been quite a problem
for me in my own group.

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At 00:07:06,697, Character said: {\an8}Johnson recognizes that the country
is turning against the war.

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At 00:07:10,951, Character said: [suspenseful classical music plays]

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At 00:07:13,203, Character said: His public approval,
approval of his handling of the war,

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At 00:07:17,040, Character said: they're in the 30s by late 1967.

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At 00:07:21,795, Character said: And so Johnson tries
to get out a better message,

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At 00:07:25,048, Character said: and he does that
by bringing home William Westmoreland

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At 00:07:29,219, Character said: to tell the people that the war
really is going better

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At 00:07:33,015, Character said: than you've been led to believe.

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At 00:07:36,435, Character said: {\an8}The enemy has not won
a single significant victory in the South

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At 00:07:43,066, Character said: {\an8}during the last one and a half years.

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At 00:07:45,736, Character said: {\an8}[Selverstone] Johnson gets a bump
from that progress campaign,

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At 00:07:48,947, Character said: {\an8}and so he goes into 1968 thinking
that maybe he can turn this thing around.

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At 00:07:55,871, Character said: And then comes the Tết Offensive.

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At 00:07:58,832, Character said: [suspenseful music continues]

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At 00:08:06,423, Character said: {\an8}[horns honking]

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At 00:08:13,680, Character said: {\an8}[reporter] The Tết Lunar Holiday.

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At 00:08:15,599, Character said: {\an8}For Asiatics, it's Christmas
and New Year's,...