Most recent public comments by Julian Do https://nowcomment.com/users/16352 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=385218 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=385218 Coincidentally, my mom and the rest of my aunts, uncles, and grandmother were on a bus heading to a helipad a few days after the Fall of Saigon that was also held p by a man with a grenade. Rather than hijacking the bus outright, he just wanted to ride the bus to the evacuation point. My point is that the real stories of refugees are easy for me to relate to, because I have a connection. But many of the atrocities of war are so foreign for many to relate to because they have not been exposed to those horrors. Even veterans and refugees that have experienced them often have trouble telling their stories. Vietnamese often joke about how escaping was for them. But unless a story can be given a face that is as identifiable, as iconic on a large scale as the likes of Apocalypse Now, or other war movies, it is hard to have the uninitiated truly understand these stories. Mon, 02 Nov 2015 07:32:32 -0800 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=385216 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=385216 I agree that soldiers will have mixed feelings when entering into war zones for the first time. Yet I feel as though Viet Nguyen is making the argument that the adventure. courage, and holiness that we many war stories tend to focus on is not only contradictory, but it is blissfully ignorant. Both og the first two paragraphs, from Tim O'Brian and Nguyen himself state it clearly, war is hell. Fighting for what you believe in a great motivational saying, but war is still hell. So depicting it as something which can give you glory and self discovery, is how writers try to engage their audience patriotism, and entertain, rather than inform Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:09:37 -0700