Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

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.

Cast

Ellen Burstyn

as Mrs. Stocks (voice)

Tom Berenger

as (voice)

J. Kenneth Campbell

as (voice)

Richard Chaves

as (voice)

Josh Cruze

as (voice)

Willem Dafoe

as Elephant Grass (voice)

Robert De Niro

as Great Sewer (voice)

Brian Dennehy

as (voice)

Kevin Dillon

as Jack (voice)

Matt Dillon

as Mike (voice)

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