Name: Children Of Vietnam Vets Tell Their Stories
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:26:13.000Z
Duration: 12 min 31 s
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you're about to see a clip with a bunch of Vietnam veterans.

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I'm David Hoffman, filmmaker, and I shot this clip as part of a work I was doing toe look at various Christian organizations and how they were helping very social situations.

I hear about this and I go to this little adventure about the watch and what you're seeing was shot in 1989.

So these Children were teenagers and young adults.

They're much older now, and I don't know what happened to them, but the feeling you get from them so touches me as a baby boomer as a person who lived through the Vietnam War, had friends in the Vietnam War.

Um, a feeling of responsibility, I don't know.

What do you think has has anyone else here noticed that if you sit through like a combat movie about Vietnam like platoon, I know if I sit through, I watch it.

I start, I begin to have the characteristics I really do.

I've got one badass that I I should say, and my mom, my mom told me I don't want to watch that movie when you're here.

She said, Because you act like a vet when it's over with.

Well, hell, you know, because of Dad, you can you go out and buy a car, you know, d'oh!

And if I watch you a full metal jacket that's not as bad as Platoon.

But if I watched Platoon, it's like it's like I am there.

You know, Platoon Platoon is like one of the best movies.

I think that was made about Vienna in the movie.

Well, this may sound sick, but I would say, uh, Sergeant Barnes, that I mean the really nasty one.

Because for some reason, the first time I saw the movie, I really felt for the man because here he is with all these scars.

And he is a hard asked veteran, and he's done three tours and he's just, you know, and you can you can look into the man's eyes and no, uh, that he's got so much down inside here that he's not gonna let out and he'll never let out.

They walked out of the theater and I felt probably everybody else, like you had been in the bush for two weeks and it was that intense.

You know, you guys are all, uh, kids of we divert rooms.

A lot of kids aren't, uh, have you noticed all that?

Ah, a lot of kids were naive, like it's now.

And, uh, you know, I just I just felt that even though I got the grades I got which weren't that great, you know, I felt that I was ahead of them as far as maturity was like Lisa said, I feel like I'm compared to, um the rest of my peer group even is that, um I feel older than their maturity wise because I've dealt with a lot of stuff, you know, that they've never even, you know, thought about having to deal with.

So it's not just the fact that your step dad was in Vietnam, but it was a way he treated you.

You do something wrong, you really get in trouble for it.

He scream and holler, and no, he was never actually, uh, physically assaulted was a Not toward me.

He's only He only hit me a couple of times, but every night talk about two in the morning, my he would chase my mother around the house.

Made me and my older brother we would be a every night when we were little.

Sit upstairs in our room and we have this little event in the hallway that goes downstairs and we take it out and we'd sit there and watch him chase around the house, just making sure that you know he didn't kill her or anything.

Get up in the middle of the night and they would be tense, and they would have to keep their eye on everything.

What they put us or, you know, I remember getting up at midnight and listening, screaming and running through them, you know?

Not really running, you know, but walking really fast, get away from me and leave me alone.

I want to go to bed and laying there and just being ready If you heard.

If you crash just to get up and go, it's that protective.

That that's a lot of stress on you when you're only so I mean, you gotta worry about yourself and you gotta worry about your brothers and sisters and Malone your mom.

You know, your mom's supposed to take care of you for that again.

You're trying to take care of her and doesn't work.

Let it be known that, uh, you are the daughter of the son of being a better I do.

I mean, I'm not I'm not at all ashamed to say that I am.

I think it's, You know, I think it's wonderful to say that you have my dad's have you know that.

So you volunteered that information about you?

You can keep that little quieter uber most the time I stepped out of his drunk when I saw him.

So really, it is either passed out, er, except with his friends.

As faras triggering like flashbacks and old feelings like that.

But if a car went down the street and backfired, you better be 10 feet away from him on.

He hates that, um, choppers, choppers going over.

And I have noticed the his starter reactions have made me have started reactions.

I remember one time and one of my friends were walking home through this alley and it was around the fourth of July where these firecrackers go off, and I Seriously, I was like, 10 years old.

I said, Carly, get down, pushed her down on the ground.

I'm going What I'm doing you know, And that was awful from seeing Dad just jump have started ragging I couldn't and I you know, I wish I didn't have because here comes back for everything.

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