The war in Vietnam was a challenging time in the history of the US, and for many scars remained fresh. While fighting abroad, the soldiers only had to worry about the death threat of Viet Cong. For some, there was sometimes a danger in their own ranks.
New Apple TV+ documentary series Vietnam: The war that changed America It contains some people who have experienced a first -hand fight by telling their personal stories. The six episode series premiered on January 31, and in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1975 war in Vietnam.
William Broyles in ‘Vietnam: The War that changed America. ”
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The fourth episode, “Mučić”, is partly focused on William Broyles, a screenwriter facing the Hollywood soldier who received the best renovated screenplay for an Academy Award Nomination for Ko-list of Tom Hanks, 1995 Apollo 13. During the war in Vietnam, he served as a lieutenant in the American Marine Corps.
“I’ve just been 25,” Broyles says, 80, in a documentary. “I had about eight months” Marine Corps training. I go through the writings of people in my leadership, and only one after the other, the “unemployed”, “abandonment of high school.” It was like a catalog of people left out in America. ”
Jeff Hiers in ‘Vietnam: The War that changed America. ”
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Although he was the commander of his troops on behalf of him, the men who signed up resisted his leadership. Just like Jeff Hiers, who was Radio Mary and a member of the Broyles’ Water, puts him in a documentary, “He didn’t know enough about Vietnam to be the main one.”
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For leaders, a lack of respect from someone’s water could lead to something called “fragiating”, which was when the men they were in charge of launching a rebellion. When Broyles began to give orders, the tensions grew.
“I was worried,” Broyles remembers. “It was not uncommon for an incompetent or excessive gung-ho cop could be frying, a grenade could be pushed into his fox hole.”
Jeff Hiers (left) and William Broyles in ‘Vietnam: The War that changed America. ”
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According to Hiers, the threat to Broyles was real. “Bill was on thin ice,” he says. “If he wanted to follow our rules, he would have been fine. If he planned to control the platoon, his life would be in danger. And then I had to take him aside and say,” Continue this, they “come for you.” ”
Broyles continues: “One thing you don’t want to be at war is alone.
“I was 25, everyone had 18, 19, did they?” Adds. “And they hate me. I was scared, thinking,” Is this a night when a grenade could get into my fox? “I’m lying there and I should sleep at night listening to them.”
‘Vietnam: The war that changed America.’
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One night while laying the bed, the base nearby became “rocketry,” he recalls. His immediate answer was to charge the hill in the fight, but his people refused to go and face a certain death. Hiers had the idea to simulate a defensive move using their radio without actually leaving their neighborhood.
“I thought for a second:” Like, I’m a lieutenant. I could probably get a judgment for that, “Broyles says. But I could say, these guys, they would die for each other, but they didn’t want to die for a war that wasn’t worth their victim … and that was my moment there , when I realized what I was there because. ”
‘Vietnam: The war that changed America.’
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It was a real turning point, for eyebrows and his people. “From that day, I was one of the lines,” says Browles, who became a successful Hollywood screenwriter and created a TV drama in Vietnam in 1988–1991. China. He also wrote the movie Tom Hanks of 2000 Reject and Crote 2004 Polar ExpressHe also plays Hanks.
Hiers agrees. “From that moment on, he proved himself,” he says. “He had the respect of all of us. He understood him.”
Adds Broyles: I fulfilled my mission. I kept them alive. I did. ”
Vietnam: The war that changed America Premieres 31 January on Apple TV+.
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