Ted, Fred and Nam

Whoa. First Holocaust revisionism, and now Vietnam revisionism (Letters, April 17).

Ted Turner is closer to history than reader Fred Landesman of Chatsworth. After World War II, once the Japanese were gone, the French invaded “French Indochina” to reclaim their colonial possessions. The Vietnamese eventually managed to kick them out--Dien Bien Phu (1954) was the decisive battle, their Tet.

The United States then took over the French role, against the strongly expressed advice of De Gaulle. We should have listened.

TIM REYNOLDS

Los Angeles