G.I.'s Gutwrenching Realization

I remember watching this series' initial airing - on the local PBS station.

Riveting doesn't come close to its effect on me - a teen at the time too young
to have gone but having an older brother who'd been, "A grunt in the Crotch in the
'Nam." Ha. He used the term as a cynical badge of honor (but badge of honor
just the same. And to this day I think it is the most badass earned privilege ANY
US man of a certain age can now possess.)

Anyways, please pardon the overlong introduction to this subject matter. Every episode
was eye opening - tho I realize now possessing a distinct point-of-view certainly. (Even the show's opening credits' short musical score was memorable and stays with me even now.)

But to my subject heading ...Towards the end of the series one scene showed a GI who stated how he finally came to realize the side he was fighting on - "our side" - was the equivalent to the British during the US Revolutionary War. And how it - that realization - hit him like a ton of bricks.

He said the Viet Nam "conflict" was a civil war between factions of Vietnamese peoples. And that the North Vietnamese - communist or otherwise - had the right to fight for their land. That "we" - the US - was an outsider getting in the middle of it.

I hope to someday rewatch this series to find that clip. I wonder if it will hold
the same power that it did way back when I first saw/heard that soldier say his peace.
He was a veteran who'd served his country and he damn sure had the right to his opinion.