![]() ![]() They just looked at it and knew what it was.Īnd the silence of that lunch- I didn't speak, my mom didn't speak, my dad didn't speak- was just that piece of paper lying at the center of the table. It was a summer afternoon, maybe June of '68.Īnd I remember taking that envelope into the house and putting it on the kitchen table where my mom and dad were having lunch. ♪ O'BRIEN: I remember the day my draft notice arrived. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL: ♪ Wherever I've been and gone. It was full of the Kiwanis boys and the Elks Club and the country club set and the kind of chatty housewives and the holier-than-thou ministers. ♪ O'BRIEN: Everybody knows everyone else's business and their faults and what's happening in their marriages and where the kids have gone wrong. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL: ♪ When I ain't drinkin', baby, you are on my mind. There was Little League baseball in the summer, and there was hockey in the winter. Small-town America- at least my small town- had great virtues. ♪ TIM O'BRIEN: I grew up in a small farming community in southern Minnesota called Worthington. (people cheering, turkeys gobbling) ("Blues Run the Game" by Simon and Garfunkel playing) ♪ Catch a boat to England, baby, maybe to Spain ♪ ♪ Wherever I have gone ♪ ♪ Wherever I've been and gone ♪ ♪ Wherever I have gone the blues run the game. GO TO BANKOFAMERICA.COM/ BETTERCONNECTED TO LEARN MORE. MELLON FOUNDATION, THE ARTHUR VINING DAVIS FOUNDATIONS, THE FORD FOUNDATION JUSTFILMS, BY THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING, AND BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU.ĪNNOUNCER: BANK OF AMERICA PROUDLY SUPPORTS KEN BURNS' AND LYNN NOVICK'S FILM "THE VIETNAM WAR" BECAUSE FOSTERING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND CIVIL DISCOURSE AROUND IMPORTANT ISSUES FURTHERS PROGRESS, EQUALITY, AND A MORE CONNECTED SOCIETY. THE PARK FOUNDATION, THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES, THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS, THE JOHN S. MAJOR FUNDING WAS ALSO PROVIDED BY DAVID H. Sweet III, The Lavender Butterfly FundĪNNOUNCER: MAJOR SUPPORT FOR "THE VIETNAM WAR" WAS PROVIDED BY MEMBERS OF THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY, INCLUDING JONATHAN AND JEANNIE LAVINE, DIANE AND HAL BRIERLEY, AMY AND DAVID ABRAMS, JOHN AND CATHERINE DEBS, THE FULLERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND, THE MONTRONE FAMILY, LYNDA AND STEWART RESNICK, THE PERRY AND DONNA GOLKIN FAMILY FOUNDATION, THE LYNCH FOUNDATION, THE ROGER AND ROSEMARY ENRICO FOUNDATION, AND BY THESE ADDITIONAL FUNDERS. Strong Foundation, Bonnie & Tom McCloskey, Barbara K. Jonathan & Jeannie Lavine, Diane & Hal Brierley, Amy & David Abrams, John & Catherine Debs, Fullerton Family Charitable Fund, The Montrone Family, Lynda & Stewart Resnick, The Golkin Family Foundation, The Lynch Foundation, The Roger & Rosemary Enrico Foundation, Richard S. Mellon Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities The Pew Charitable Trusts Ford Foundation Just Films Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Members of The Better Angels Society: Koch The Blavatnik Family Foundation Park Foundation The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations The John S. Koch The Blavatnik Family Foundation Park Foundation The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations … Moreįunding for The Vietnam War is provided by Bank of America Corporation for Public Broadcasting PBS David H. ![]() ![]() Funding for The Vietnam War is provided by Bank of America Corporation for Public Broadcasting PBS David H.
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