12:47:41 From John
McAuliff to Everyone : Program on the 53d anniversary of
the massacre
Moderator John
McAuliff
Professor / author Howard Jones
Vietnam helicopter pilot Lawrence Wilkerson
Film maker Connie Field
Composer Jonathan Berger
Kronos Quartet”s David Harrington
Music Performer Van-Anh Vo
12:48:19 From John
McAuliff to Everyone : https://tinyurl.com/mylaiweb
13:02:15 From William
Ayers to
Everyone : Great to see you. Greetings from Chicago. Thank you for this.
13:03:25 From ron
schulz to All panelists : Hello to all yas.
13:03:57 From John
Falchi to All panelists : This is a very important
event to commemorate. In San Diego we did
this for its 50th anniversary with an interactive art exhibit an 3 speaking
programs by the Veterans for Peace. John P. Falchi-San Diego.,
13:04:45 From Kenneth
Mayers to Everyone : Greetings from Santa Fe, NM
13:04:48 From ron
schulz to Everyone : Been looking forward to this.
14:06:14 From Bill
Shugarts to All panelists : Beautiful & powerful
documentary!! Bill Shugarts, Vietnam
Veteran (1969-1970), Americal Division
14:09:14 From John
Falchi to Everyone : What a wonderful musical
representation of the My Lai Massacre!
John P. Falchi of the Hugh Thompson chapter of the Veterans for Peace.
14:09:57 From
Jonathan Berger to John Falchi and all panelists : Thank you,
John
14:10:00 From AMY
Blumenshine to All panelists : Thank you. It worked out fine.
14:10:43 From Bonnie
Prest-Thal to Everyone : Profoundly moving, musical,
impactful. Bless you, John FRD.
14:11:00 From Sylvia
Kaplan to Everyone : It was incredible with all the
technical glitches.
14:12:04 From John
Bancroft to All panelists : The film was so powerful —
the box on the screen was insignificant!
14:13:16 From
Christopher Cruise to All panelists : Howard thanks for the book,
which I have in both hardback and audio!
14:14:38 From Harry
Haines to All panelists : I must leave to teach a
class. This was deeply moving. Many thanks. I was in uniform when the reports
appeared. My buddies and I wept over this. Hugh Thompson was a very good man.
14:18:23 From Milla
Riggio to Everyone : This story and this film raises
big questions about our responsibilities as Americans. We like to forget these kinds of histories —
the sure knowledge that this massacre was the rule rather than the exception.
How do we live with that? How do we
atone for it without becoming in our turn self-righteous.
14:24:28 From Bill
Shugarts to All panelists : Howard-your books is
Excellent!! Bill Shugarts, wshugarts@verizon.net Have some questions from serving with
Americal. Thanks!! Bill
14:26:41 From ron
schulz to Everyone : American exceptionalism is simple
smug self ignorance.
14:28:35 From Bill
Shugarts to All panelists : Sadly, this is us.
14:36:06 From John
Falchi to Everyone : What caused the government's attitude
toward the action of Hugh Thompson at My
Lai to change many years later? John P.
Falchi
14:36:38 From Laurent
Gilbert to Everyone : Was this recorded so that we could
refer people to view this again. Could it be placed on YouTube? Already done,
link at top
14:36:53 From Bill
Shugarts to All panelists : How did you get the idea to
do this "moving opera"?
14:39:53 From Harold
Appel to
Everyone : Thanks for this, so much. Makes me remember more vividly why
I was a CO back then. Harold Appel Vets for Peace, chapter 34.
14:39:57 From John
McAuliff to Jackie Barshak and all panelists : I didn't
discover it until I put it on my phone to see what the audience was seeing
14:40:06 From Dat
Duthinh to All panelists : How can we see the opera?
14:44:56 From Ronald
Mendel to Everyone : I think Phil Ochs might have been
provoked by the My Lai massacre to write "White Boots Marchin' in a Yellow Land".
14:46:40 From Bill
Shugarts to All panelists : Very powerful words!!
14:50:36 From Lubna
Qureshi to All panelists : Professor Jones, what is your
opinion of Trent Angers’s biography of Hugh Thompson? Thank you.
14:51:39 From Laurent
Gilbert to Everyone : Will this program be able to be
viewed again and if so, how?
14:52:51 From Dick
Berliner to Everyone : I went My Lai in November 1967
soon after Seymour Hersh broke the story
through Dispatch News Service International. All we can observe was the
grief a few survivors. There was no way
to know or describe what had happened there
at that time. This film is very
important in filling the gap.
14:52:51 From Stephen
Spitz to
Everyone : My favorite Phil Ochs song was I Ain’t Marching Anymore. I
drove Phil from the Lyndon Johnson Unbirthday Party during the 1968 Democratic
Convention in my home town of Chicago to his hotel. Four years later, I drove
Phil from a benefit concert for George McGovern to the music school of the
University of Michigan so he could remix his new lyrics to “Here’s to the State
of Richard Nixon” to the music of “Here’s to the State of Mississippi.” During
that trip, we reminisced about the August 1968 event in Chicago. Phil said:
“That was the highlight of my life.” Four years later he sadly took his own
life
14:53:50 From Linda
Ray to
Everyone : Yes, good point Connie regarding the power of art and story
to go to deeper places within humans.
14:57:20 From Bill
Shugarts to All panelists : Michael Bilton & Kevin
Sims Book-"Four Hours at My Lai" details what Mr. Jones is talking
about.
14:59:30 From David
Harrington to All panelists : YES!!!
15:04:29 From Michael
Bilton to All panelists : It has been a fascinating
experience watching and listening to everyone.
I made a film called Four Hours in My Lai in 1988/89 which won an Emmy
and a BAFTA in the UK. We then started
researching a book - again called Four Hours in My Lai, which was published in
1993. Hugh and Larry had by then become friends because we had put them back in
touch with each other after losing touch some 15 years previously. We had tracked Hugh down to Louisiana in 1988
where he had hidden himself away. He was
surprised to hear from us and I think because we were British he agreed to meet
me. He was a quiet and amazing man, and
showed extraordinary humility. But he
also felt the pain of being rejected by his own comrades in the US Army. A
truly extraordinary individual. I
returned to My Lai, where we had filmed in 1988, with Larry in 2007. He and his wife by then had by then become
become good friends. We spent a week with them a year before Larry died. I will never forget them.
15:09:58 From John Fournelle to
Everyone : There was a video made by a French videographer, D. Maudinet,
called “The Ghosts of My Lai” with Director Jean Crepu. Old contact (not sure
if current) is contact@javafilms.fr . I have a copy
15:10:11 From David
Harrington to All panelists : Sorry that I must leave
15:10:44 From
Jonathan Berger to Everyone : Thank you Michael Bilton for your
important and wonderful work
15:17:22 From Karin
San Juan to All panelists : Kanopy is how colleges and
universities access films
15:17:35 From Bill
Shugarts to All panelists : Would you show it to the new
Army Museum? I am a docent there and
know who to contact.
15:18:21 From Bonnie
Prest-Thal to Everyone : John, can you put in the website
to donate to FRD and what is the address of the blog?
15:19:12 From Karin
San Juan to All panelists : also each state has a
Humanities Center funded by the NEH, in Minnesota we have the MN Humanities
Center and the Veterans Voices program
15:19:12 From
Gretchen Eick to All panelists : and the National War College,
not just West Point
15:20:09 From Bill
Shugarts to All panelists : Would you want to present the
film to a high school audience in Denmark who are studying the Vietnam war each
year.
15:22:00 From Karin
San Juan to All panelists : intergenerational two-way
dialogue is so important for gleaning the lessons of war…
15:22:15 From
Elizabeth Lee to All panelists : I remember it as it was
yesterday and I was affected dramatically and would recommend it highly for schools
15:23:36 From Karin
San Juan to All panelists : Van Anh gives a very
humanistic view!
15:23:38 From
Elizabeth Lee to All panelists : Absolutely thank you
15:24:37 From Van
Ahn Vo
to Everyone : Thanks Karin and
all of you who are participating in the screening and talk.
15:24:41 From
Elizabeth Lee to All panelists : his name please
15:25:03 From Cathryn
Chudy to
All panelists : Bless and thank all of you for this!
15:25:04 From Milla
Riggio to Everyone : The Battle of Elah is a mainstream
movie that deals with a similar, though much lower key situation.
15:25:12 From
Jonathan Berger to Everyone : Thank you to all. Peace.
15:25:39 From Karin
San Juan to All panelists : So much great programming
from VPCC, you guys are on fire! in a good way...
15:26:26 From Milla
Riggio to Everyone : In the Valley of Elah. My mistake.
15:27:20 From John
Kent to
Everyone : Thank you all. My Lai was part of my schooling re: what the
US Government is capable of and that behavior continues to this day.
15:27:24 From Amy
Merrill to Everyone : Wonderful program. Thanks
everyone!
15:27:36 From Stephen
Spitz to
Everyone : Thanks!
15:27:44 From Harold
Appel to
Everyone : Hi, Jogn
15:27:48 From Kenneth
Mayers to Everyone : Terrific — both the film and the
webinar
15:27:53 From Hồng-Phong
Phó to
All panelists : Thank you, John.
15:27:54 From Bill
Shugarts to All panelists : WEII DONE!!MANY thanks!!
15:28:09 From
Gretchen Eick to All panelists : thank you all.
15:28:25 From Elaine
Butler McCarthy to All panelists : Thank you so much for the
whole program…. moving as well as informative
15:28:50 From Mary
Kambic to Everyone : Thanks again or a great program!
Makes me happy to have been an activist and still fighting!
15:28:53 From Ronald
Haeberle to Everyone : Great program!
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