Remembering The Vietnam War
44 years ago today, April 19, 1969, I flew from Binh Thuy in Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta to Tan Son Nhut air base in Saigon to meet with our intelligence officers to discuss their reports of US bombings in the Delta and compare them with my eyewitness reports of what appeared to be the same bombings. Their reports identified dozens and dozens, sometimes hundreds of VC (Viet Cong) dead. My eyewitness reports revealed they were ALL civilians, more than half very small children. They agreed that their reports were very suspicious and thanked me for unraveling the mystery of how their reports could reveal VC units destroyed by bombings one day, then in a couple of days that same VC unit re-appearing in another location. Mystery solved. The bombs were killing inhabited villages, not VC units.
Photo: I stand next to my jeep at Binh Thuy getting ready to board a C-123 for Tan Son Nhut, April 19, 1969. My life hasn’t been the same since. – S. Brian Willson
Paying the Price for Peace is a documentary that reveals the life and journey of Brian Willson taken from a rich photo and video archive of the events throughout his life until the present. Whether we see and hear Brian at anti-war protests, sitting in front of the train that nearly killed him, to his unending support of people in Central American nations against, Willson puts forward his beliefs and challenges us to do the same. As he says repeatedly regarding human lives in other countries, “we are not worth more, they are not worth less.”
This film will provoke changes in the hearts of minds of all who consider themselves to be compassionate human beings. We hear from supporters from people like Blase Bonpane, Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, to Dorothy Granada, Joan Baez, Jesse Jackson, Kris Kristofferson, and others.
Award winning documentary filmmaker Bo Boudart presents an insightful and powerful film about the subject of war and how we are all involved, without exception. The real question becomes; what are we willing to do about it? Brian Willson suggests how.
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