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Poetry

longship

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5. It is a damned good series.

Reply to orangecrush (Reply #4)

Sun Oct 8, 2017, 03:47 PM

Oct 2017

No doubt Ken Burns' best by far. He worked on it for a decade! He couldn't have done it without Viet Nam's cooperation, which makes it all the more remarkable.

Highly recommended. You will want to view it more than once.

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"The Second Coming" - William Butler Yeats [View all] orangecrush Oct 2017 OP

"Things fall apart, the center cannot hold" NRaleighLiberal Oct 2017 #1

It hit me orangecrush Oct 2017 #2

That line was used as a title for an episode of Ken Burns Vietnam. Perfectly apt NRaleighLiberal Oct 2017 #3

Thanks, I haven't seen it yet orangecrush Oct 2017 #4

It is a damned good series. longship Oct 2017 #5

When I was a sophomore in high school Fortinbras Armstrong Oct 2017 #6

Thank you orangecrush Oct 2017 #8

A great poem. longship Oct 2017 #7

I have a nice anthology orangecrush Oct 2017 #9