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...remains hopeful and optimistic.“The attack on 9/11 gave us a historic opportunity to confront the past and resolve our myth,” she said, “To see ourselves in a realistic light.”—Staff writer Andrew E. Lai can be reached at lai@fas.harvard.edu...
...Because of Iraq. That's a major reason. I had no intention of making a fourth Vietnam movie at all. But this last year - you know my feelings about the Iraq war of course - I think the time has unfortunately come back around to remember events like My Lai...
...Lai? Because it's a great story. I was [serving] in Vietnam at the time, and it really made an impression, and I think it changed the course of the war to a large degree. Americans were shocked, as well as the Vietnamese. You have to take into account that many Vietnamese villagers were neutral. It turned many neutral villagers against us. It was an interesting turning point...
...easy, but I can understand it. I mean, you saw a bit of it in Platoon. Not on this scale. But that's part of what the movie shows, visualizes, dramatizes - the peer pressure, the tension. [My Lai] happened. It's a fact. It's history. I'm not seeking to denigrate the average soldier. There was a breakdown in that division and there was a breakdown from the top. And I think it had a lot to do with the war policy, which was basically body counts, kill ratios, search and destroy, free-fire zones - these concepts, when they...
...Lai is more like World Trade Center in that it's outside my own personal whatnot, it's outside me and it's an event of historical proportions. But it seems that there's so many similar things [between Vietnam and Iraq]. Sometimes the best way to reflect on something is through parallel history. Patton came out during Vietnam; Little Big Man came out during Vietnam; M*A*S*H* came out during Vietnam. They were all about other wars. Sometimes you can tell more about a war now by paralleling a previous...