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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

71 %|Oct 1, 1987|Documentary, War

Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.

Featured Crew

Bill CouturiƩ
Director
Richard Dewhurst
Writer
John Armstrong
Still Photographer

Cast

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Ellen Burstyn
Mrs. Stocks (voice)
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Josh Cruze
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Willem Dafoe
Elephant Grass (voice)
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Robert De Niro
Great Sewer (voice)
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Kevin Dillon
Jack (voice)
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Matt Dillon
Mike (voice)
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Michael J. Fox
Raymond Griffiths (voice)
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John Heard
Johnny Boy (voice)
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Martin Sheen
Alan (voice)
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Sean Penn
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Kathleen Turner
Lynda Van Devanter (voice)
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Harvey Keitel
Donald Jacques (voice)