Apocalypse Now

“The bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.”- Capt. Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen). On May 10 1979, Francis Ford Coppola finally edited down over one-million feet of film to give us his Vietnam War epic…

“Do you feel like a hero yet?” asks the loading screen. Against a backdrop of a crumbling Dubai a burnt and bleeding soldier looks at something far away. His thousand-yard stare tells the player all they need to know. No. No, I don’t feel…

“I was seduced by World War Two and John Wayne movies”     -Anonymous Veteran in Mark Baker’s Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There (1981), p. 12. On June 23rd, screenwriter and Vietnamese War…