Me i would test myself against them and i did i didnt complain when i was there i got wounded twice i mean i did a lot of fighting i saw a lot of combat. When i brought it on myself i wasnt whining about it but i felt like i was lucky i survived and if you saw platoon you remember the end of it i found a meaning to my life in that war which is to say i really go on and teach what i know to others good teach goodness and teach experience teach the good things of life that i can garner that i can turn on and thats what ive done to the best of my ability one thing ive done which makes me very proud so i documented the war before you people knew our give me about vietnam through other sources and when it came to films and pictures it was the pain of the american saying in the in the deer hunter but he do say that he killed people and we had maybe stop the rape of van demis nels but you came back knowing the lie i just want to skip a lot on a bed to midnight express because the Prison Indus
Afternoon d Late Afternoon or early evening you dont have any more like to shoot or you have to go to artificial light which is no good for me so im always running to get there west lets say its 4 oclock 6 oclock in the afternoon in the latest fall in i have 3 shots i want to get to finish the scene if i dont get them i cant i have to rethink the scene quickly it puts me under maximum pressure the kind of movies i mean there sure were low budget most of them were pretty tight on the budgets always so i didnt have a lot of days to asked it was the opposite of Stanley Kubrick if you want you mentioned life and death because in this book its very apparent that after painting this amazing the romantic picture of your parents and their meeting in the shadow of world war 2. You literally seem to be almost suicidal in your own has. For it too far to say for death of the me rejected for an all to enlist i explained that in detail it was very painful for me i havent i have lived a magical life
They continue to this day in america we have a record suicide rate per young people of 1920. Record and may countries i gather that this is a growing problem because theres a lack of Spiritual Life thats what took me to this place of fatalism and i said i want to go to war i want to see what its like at the bottom i dont want any favors and if the gods my destiny were intended for me to take me they would take me i would test myself against them and i did i didnt complain when i was there i got wounded twice i mean i did a lot of fighting i saw a lot of combat. When i brought it on myself i wasnt whining about it i felt like i was lucky i survived and if you saw platoon in europe or the end of it i found a meaning to my life in that war which is to say i really go on and teach what i know to others good teach goodness and teach experience teach the good things of life that i can garner that i can turn on and thats what ive done to the best of my ability one thing ive done which makes m
Jail myself for federal smuggling in san diego california. Right after i came out of vietnam i was carrying no some marijuana from from vietnam because it was good and i was smoking it on a regular basis i learned about that over there. And i was busted with it and thrown it into federal slowly charged very serious but increasingly i was with 5000 young people blacks spanish panic americans and a few white people mostly old drug crimes nonviolent but they were being severely dont with at the time it was the beginning the very beginning of the war on drugs nixon had just been elected he ended cleared that war yet but he was about to so we were the 1st wave that i could see in the injustice of it these these kids most of them were. Coming from rough lives they didnt want to go to vietnam you know they they were boarded at the best of their ability but many of them were drafted the they that they were trying to make extra money on the side that was the way to do it there was a system that
Life that i can garner that i can turn on and thats what ive done to the best of my ability one thing ive done which makes me very proud and so i documented the war before you people knew argue with me about vietnam through other sources and when it came to films and pictures it was the pain of the american saying in the in the deer hunter but he do say that he killed people and maybe stopped a rape of demis nels but you came back knowing the lie i just want to skip a lot on a bed to midnight express because the Prison Industrial Complex is something we talk a lot about here on going underground fact we say often that the United States imprisons per capita more people than stalin or mao why was midnight express not just about what happens in turkey if it mr and what happens to be watching to try to make their point unsuccessfully at the turn but when i wrote midnight express years later this was in 1978 i come back from vietnam in 68 late 68 i had been thrown in jail myself for federal