catherine: yes, the images of vietnam, the famous picture of a vietnam -- viet cong is in her being shot. it remains as a very strong pictures of vietnam, had a number of others. they hit people. it was the first time vietnam was covered, the way it was. looking back at it, it was new media, we had access to it. you have to hurry up to photograph the world because it is closing, you can't see anymore. carrie: it's closing. catherine: very much so. it's very hard to go and photograph. they put you on the bus, and they want you to shoot propaganda. vietnam was not the case, you could go anywhere you wanted. carrie: olivia washington, good morning. host: i wanted to say that the media has been able to stay in vietnam after the north took over. i really believe the american people were seeing after what really happened, i know people who are against the war might have changed their minds, i believe that with all of my heart. i believe we did have a purpose there, and if we would've had more, it would've helped. catherine: it's very interesting that all of the media left, the american media a

here we are, we are in vietnam, about 25 miles from the biggest viet cong base, it is called cambodia. talk this is home of grievances for the ho chi minh trail. this is located at the base of dragon mountain, and the mountain is not the only thing around here that is dragging. to this is montagnard country. i went to their village, i really enjoyed it. that's what we need more of, topless allies. and i love the modern facilities they have here, we asked for the washroom, they gave us two shovels. two shovels, marked his and hers. >> let's bring raquel welch back out, this is not for the fellows this is for me. >> all right everybody back on the ground. >> hey bob am i standing in the right place, >> don't worry honey, if you're not they'll move the base. i'm of those assembled here i bring my weapon for the little ready room. >> thank you bob, i am most happy to be here, and see all these boys. >> they were boys before you came out, now they are old men. >> these men really are they really so starved for affection? [applause] >> now they have their sergeants. >> why don't we do what

keep remembering about this when it comes to specific acts of violence, that was a tactic that the viet cong and north va neat ma ease did use and that kind of thing went on both sides and the phoenix program and the p.r. units. there was another level of quite targeted very nasty violence on both sides. brian: you remember this gentleman died and one of the first to write about the french. any impact that he had. one of the things that was told, he didn't have experts and didn't have enough experts on the asian part of the world. >> they didn't have enough but and my pleff that their estimates were pretty good and much better than we thought they were. and they wanted more. didn't want to hear that and didn't want to hear this can't be won. >> only bit of time. your reaction of the legacy of vietnam. >> it clearly has left a scar on america, particularly in the area of trust of our institutions. and for period of time, it had a devastating effect on new york's military. the effect has turned around and very strong these days and i think the scars, the other scars of vietnam by and larg