Two Days in October

[Roland99]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/


Watch.

Cry.

[kevinmc]

1. Missed most of it.......

Damn it. Hopefully I'll catch it when it plays again.

[Gloria]

2. Boy, was that powerful...It focused on what may be considered the

first real war protest, involving DOW Chemical at the Univ. of Wisconsin. The cops interviewed were chilling. Really mean cusses.
A professor told how he was stunned when he saw that the Chancellor had decided to call the police in himself, basically taking sides. A reporter who interviewed him about 30 years later, when he was 90, said the man still was haunted by what had happened and cried.

The program juxtaposed the student unrest with what was going on in Viet Nam. I thought of the guys in Iraq messed up when I saw the one Viet Nam vet still crying for his buddies.

This was an extremely powerful program, and really made my anger about what's going on now surface....Everyone is so passive now...But then again, we don't have reporters like Bert Quint (sp?) out there and reporting every night from the battlefield like we had back in the 60's.

I remember every dinner hour, you'd get a dose of Viet Nam, when the news came on....

[Roland99]

3. Kick for the day-walkers

[Jimbo S]

4. I watch little television

but being a Madison native, I planned my day around watching this show. I was already aware of most of the history and I found it to be pretty well done. Once again, couldn't help but notice the similarities bewteen Vietnam and Iraq. The only difference being a lack of a draft. The lack of a draft is the only thing keeping the powderkeg from exploding.

BTW, the PBS affiliates in Wisconsin broadcasted a 30 minute follow-up. They brought in Welch, Miller, the professor and the student for a round table talk earlier this month. Good discussion.

[deutsey]

5. The book "They Marched into Sunlight" is very good, too

This show is based on this excellent historical work.

[Roland99]

6. Thanks for the info.