Chat from My Lai Webinar

 

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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