Jesse Welles

You don't get that.

Because that was before the internet.

I kind of wonder if they... Listen, I'm sure... Actually, I don't know anything about... Do you know Tom Hanks?

Yeah.

I just wonder if every once in a while when the government needs to explain something to the public in a way that puts us in the best light, if they commission a movie through Hollywood and stick Tom Hanks in it, man.

He's just explained so much to us over the years.

With Charlie Wilson's war, it's like, here's how this goes.

You know, Forrest Gump is kind of a nostalgia fest about the Vietnam War.

It kind of makes light of it.

I read this and this and that right, but there were small groups of people most people were in the dark Even if you had a counter-narrative you'd be like Pete Seeger and get like blacklisted in the 50 You know musician you be Smedley Butler, but what you're right who was in a The end of his career yeah

It's a wonder he survived his own tell-all there with War is a Racket.

Yeah, it is.

It didn't seem to do a whole lot, whatever.

World War II is just six years after.

America was really not wanting to get in with World War I anyway.

Was it the Lusitania?

Some folks think that even might have been a false sinkage.

Do they think that was a false one?

Possibly.

So we had already been in Vietnam for years at that point.