From Center for Emerging Media
| Part of the Shared Weight series
| 00:58:56
Producers: Marc Steiner, Steve Elliot

Shared Weight: 30 Years after the Fall of Saigon:
MASH 1969: Visions of War, Dreams of Peace
Produced by the Center for Emerging Media
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I?M MARC STEINER, AND WELCOME TO SHARED WEIGHT, A DOCUMENTARY SERIES ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR 30 YEARS AFTER IT ENDED. THIS HOUR, WE HEAR THE STORIES OF POET GEORGE EVANS, WHO SERVED AS AN AIR FORCE MEDIC AND WHO WAS THE FIRST SOLDIER TO DEFEAT HIS COURT MARSHAL, IN A TALE THAT COULD COME STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MOVIE AND TV SERIES, MASH. AND THEN WE HEAR THE STORY OF LYNDA VAN DEVANTER, WHO WAS A SURGICAL NURSE IN 1969 AND 70, WHOSE MEMOIR AND LIFE STORY INSPIRED THE TV HIT SERIES, CHINA BEACH. WE HEAR HER GRIPPING STORY IN THE ONLY KNOWN RECORDING OF HER BEFORE SHE DIED TRAGICALLY IN 2002. WE?LL BE BACK WITH SHARED WEIGHT RIGHT AFTER THIS NPR NEWS BREAK.
Segment 1
MARC: I?M MARC STEINER, AND WELCOME TO SHARED WEIGHT, TO 1969 AND...
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00:00 ? 00:59 BILLBOARD
01:00 ? 06:00 NEWS HOLE
06:00 ? 20:59 SEGMENT A
21:00 ? 21:59 CUTAWAY
22:00 ? 41:29 SEGMENT B
41:30 ? 42:29 CUTAWAY
42:30 ? 58:59 SEGMENT C [INCLUDES CREDITS]
Warning: There are graphic desciptions of operations to wounded soldiers, as well as strong language.
David Swatling
Posted on November 30, 2006 at 07:41 PM | Permalink
Review of MASH 1969 - Visions of War, Dreams of Peace
The power of this program lies in the raw honesty of the two speakers. As they each talk about their experiences of the Vietnam War and how it turned them into anti-war activists, layers are peeled away revealing more and more of their inner spirit. George Evans is an engaging storyteller who looks back on the past in a wryful way. It's clear Lynda VanDevanter is speaking in a public forum and sometimes reading from her memoir. But the emotion which overtakes her as she reads is heart-wrenching.
The stories are interspersed with bits of evocative music that sets the tone and time. (I could've done with losing a couple of the breaks, but this is a minor point hardly worth mentioning.) This is the second program I've listened to in this series and along with reviews I've read of other pieces can highly recommend it.