Really, Ken? Really?

What is it with Ken Burns making documentaries about subjects that have already been well covered? Here we have news from the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation that Burns has made a doc about the Vietnam War. Ok, I guess. In the last decade Burns did a doc about World War II.

Of course Burns is most famous for his Civil War documentary.

We grew up with Vietnam, the Ten Thousand Day War and that seemed pretty good. Released in 1983, this documentary came along as America was trying to get a sense of the whole conflict. The Memorial Wall in DC was open. One saw Vietnam vets in television series. Magnum PI was a Vietnam vet. There was the A-Team, 'In 1972, a crack commando unit was sentenced to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit.' Literature about the war was coming out. We read with delight the Vietnam: Ground Zero series.

As kids we didn't really 'play' Vietnam. No, always our friends and us were battling Krauts or Japs.

We do not have high hopes for this series. Do we really need another round of docs about protests? We'd much rather see a series about the military lessons of Vietnam.

Can't somebody do that?'

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