America Losing The Vietnam War

Early 1968 thru January 1973.  From the Tet Offensive and President Johnson announcing he wouldn’t run again in early 1968 until January 1973, when American delegates signed an agreement around a really big table in Paris to stop fighting in Vietnam.  

Eventually in 1975, all of Vietnam would fall to the Communists. 

 

John Williams’ score for the 1989 film Born On The Fourth Of July

          • The Shooting Of Wilson
          • Cua Viet River, Vietnam, 1968

Music that captures the horror, tragedy, and chaos of The Vietnam War

 

John Williams (1989), his Oscar-nominated work early in 1990

  • A clueless & faithless 14 year-old.  “You must choose.  But choose wisely.”
  • Ron Kovic’s encounter with Murphy’s Law

 

Clueless & Faithless…& Murphy’s Law.  As a faithless 14 year-old.  As a faithless teenager.  And as a faithless young adult.  A particular train wreck in my life that I’m referring to, the kind that would have helped Harrison Ford get a head start on eluding Tommy Lee Jones. 

Much of it a self-inflicted kind of Murphy’s Law…but Murphy’s Law nonetheless.  Definitely a connection between the two movies other than John Williams getting Oscar recognition in early 1990.  Definitely a connection.  No doubt about it.