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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Addressed to the heart of America.

Released PG 84 min 7.9/10 Votes: 1987
Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.
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