Re: 1st Season New Amsterdam - Soldier's Heart - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

In article <r2cht3tqoellvr69qeajoilno74liheeg1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Zombie Elvis <DELETEMETOREPLYrobertocastillo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:40:42 -0400, Barry Margolin
> <barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >But even if it were the point of this show, it's hardly new that Iraq
is 
> >the new Vietnam.  It's been an unpopular war practically since the 
> >beginning.  But at least no one is being drafted to go there.
> 
> I was referring to the use of an Iraq veteran (I definitely got the
> impression that Orlando Jones' character was supposed to be an Iraq
> vet) with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Vietnam vets with PTSD have
> been popular stock characters for about thirty years.

But mostly replaced with Iraq vets for the past decade or so.  Vietnam 
vets are in their 60's and 70's now, and not as ripe for drama as 
veterans of the Gulf War and the Iraq invasion.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 MA
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