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Francis Foster

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4873 total appearances

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

It's a lot of money now, but back then it was even more money.

TRIGGERnometry
Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

So 1965, when was the moment American boots hit Vietnamese soil?

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

armed forces at that point.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

You go, this is the most technologically advanced armed forces in the world.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

This is the richest country in the world.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

They were up against, let's be fair, a technologically limited Viet Cong.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

That should be an easy win, shouldn't it?

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

We know our audience, and every so often something comes along that we think you'll genuinely want to see.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

Hillsdale College made a film about the American founding.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

It's called Revolutionary America.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

It's narrated by Tom Selleck, and having seen a preview, I think it's something special.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

The film brings a founding to life through historians who understand what was genuinely at stake.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

What struck me watching the trailer is how seriously it treats the audience.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

no editorializing, no revisionism, just the story told properly with the weight it deserves.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

The American founding is one of the most consequential political experiments in human history.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

A group of people who had everything to lose decided that some things were worth more than safety, and the world has never been the same since.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

This film asks what you would have done in their position.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

This is a theatrical release, not a streaming drop, and it only runs for three days, May 31st to June 2nd.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

Go to hillsdale.edu slash revolution.

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Everything You Think You Know About Vietnam Is Wrong โ€” Historian Mark Moyar

Find a theater near you and buy your tickets.