YMMV / Hearts and Minds

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Some viewers may not know that there was a brief interregnum between the final end of active American military involvement in Vietnam (January 1973), and North Vietnamese defeat of the South and unification of the country (April 1975) in which it was possible to imagine that America "won" the war by preserving South Vietnamese independence. This film was made right in the middle of that two year "decent interval." So that's why George Coker talks about how he's happy that America won the war.