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Individual VLP Blog #2

          This week for our VLP final we met in our groups to discuss the videos, how to proceed, what we wanted to express in our storyboards, and so on. We also talked about how to deal with the fact that the veteran we will talking about very recently passed away. We thought perhaps of reaching out to his church and family to see how they would like to see the video that would have him in it, or if they wanted to talk about his time in the service. We reached out to another professor in the department who has overseen the VLP to see what she recommends. However, either way, I am very concerned, as I know the rest of the members of the group are, that this might be very sensitive for his family because of his recent passing about three months ago. I was hoping we could do our video on the correspondence between those serving and their loved ones and their photos. It can be a very sensitive topic, both generally speaking but also in specific instances as well....
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Individual VLP Blog #1

         The Vietnam War left the United States, to its core, deeply divided. Whether politically or militarily, navigating this war also left five Presidential administrations divided as well. As part of the introduction to public history course I am taking this semester, we are assigned as our major project for the semester to create storyboards and videos for the Veterans Legacy Project. For this week, as some preliminary work, we were asked to watch the Ken Burns documentary entitled The Vietnam War . We were also instructed to read Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried.          Generally speaking, Ken Burn’s The Vietnam War , through an episodic style, examines on a broad level what happened during the war, while also discussing the main political actors (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Truman, Eisenhower, Ho Chi Minh, and Ngo Dinh Diem), the roots of the war, and the misunderstandings that drove it. The fires of th...
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