A Conversation with Four Vietnam Veterans.
The day of the recording, Becky and I walked a few blocks from home to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Riverside Drive and 89th Street for this year's Memorial Day Services. The U.S. Navy Band was playing and we wanted to get some background sound for our session later in the Day with four U.S. veterans of the war in Vietnam. It was a splendiferous spring morning.
Neither of us agree with all that our government or military does, but we are of this land and feel a gratitude for those who served in the military. Our son had been a Marine and so maybe it was that -- but I think it had to do with something else -- a patriotism that resides in a need to make more perfect this flawed nation.
Four veterans of the Vietnam War joined us at Gebhards Beer Culture Bar for a conversation about their experiences before, during, and after their time in Indochina. The Hudson Warehouse had featured their testimony in a Veteran's Day production in November 2018. BCR #44 begins with a brief synopsis of the war with Vietnam War veteran and former Marine Lt. Colonel, Robert Black.
BONUS CONTENT ON BCR: After this episode we sat down with the Hudson Warehouse team to talk about their 2018 Veteran's Day Play featuring the war testimonies of Arthur Faiella, James Britton, and Tom Pellaton. This conversation is followed by a dramatized audio version of their stories.
CORRECTION: Robert Black contacted us with a correction in the presentation of the history of the Vietnam War: "Pre-1954, it was the Viet Minh throughout all of Vietnam; post 1954 it was the Viet Cong in the South, only."
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