Movie: Last Days of Vietnam

This is going to be shown on PBS as part of "The American Experience" series.

The first twenty minutes were, as an audience member pointed out at the end, way, way too whitewashed about the situation in Saigon in the wake of the Paris Peace accords. The filmmakers didn't even mention that one reason it would have been impossible to send troops back to Vietnam was that the draft had been abolished.

Ambassador Martin came across as venal. Stuart Herrington came across very well (he was a captain at the time and privately got several people out as well as helping on the final day), but I also know the man (not my father) who authorized his black op, so it wasn't as much under the radar as the film implied.

I couldn't have sat through the whole thing and the panel without neotoma sitting beside me. It was sweet of her to volunteer and even nicer that she actually made the long trek for a movie that began at 10:45 a.m. Brunch afterward was all the sweeter. Must find a way to afford Co Co. Sala again.