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[Speaking Vietnamese]
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[Translator]
Look, they"re focusing on us now.
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First they bomb as much as they please,
then they film.
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[Man Speaking French]
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[Translator] We fought
against the Chinese for 12 centuries.
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We fought against the French
for 100 years.
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And finally, when the war
was lost by the French in 1954...
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at the battle of Dien Bien Phu,
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the Vietnamese were liberated
from foreign oppression.
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But it was at that precise moment that
the Americans came to Vietnam.
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Little by little at first.
Then more and more as an invasion,
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an invasion of the American army.
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Five hundred thousand of them
in Vietnam.
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And this war
became a war of genocide.
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The people of North Vietnam
and South Vietnam...
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fight only for freedom,
independence and national unity.
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This war is a war against
the American imperialists.
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This is our war for independence.
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-[Gunshot]
-****["Yankee Doodle"]
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What we are trying to put across this
afternoon is to get you to realize...
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that these weren't mythical,
hazy people from the past.
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These were very real people.
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When they rose up against
the most powerful army in the world,
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they were actually putting
everything on the line that they had:
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their homes, their wealth,
their past and their future.