I didn't really want to see Platoon. The Washington Post's Henry Allen, himself a Marine Corps Vietnam vet, expressed my sentiments exactly in a January 1987 column. People kept pushing Vietnam war movies on him and asking "How isn't it like Vietnam?"
Language
English
Pages
7
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
The World and I Online
Release
October 21, 2013
Two or More Vietnams: Reactions of a Vietnam Veteran to Platoon
I didn't really want to see Platoon. The Washington Post's Henry Allen, himself a Marine Corps Vietnam vet, expressed my sentiments exactly in a January 1987 column. People kept pushing Vietnam war movies on him and asking "How isn't it like Vietnam?"