A Film of Stone
I think veterans will applaud the accuracy, emotion and depth of director Oliver Stone’s “Born on the Fourth of July” (“The Latest Exorcism of Oliver Stone” by Elaine Dutka, Dec. 17). I think the American public will respond with enthusiasm and support for its message. I think the military and Administration will grit their teeth; they wanted Vietnam, the reality of its mistakes, betrayals and hideousness, to be forgotten in the American mind.
Oliver Stone has forever erased any possibility of that.
PHILL COLEMAN
Senior Librarian
The Vietnam Data Resource
and Electronic Library
Redondo Beach
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