Film poster for Ken Burns' The Vietnam War

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Bill Jefferson, Buxton

Maine Public

Published September 4, 2017 at 1:44 PM EDT

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A clip from Second Time Around, a film I co-produced in 2001-2 about a veteran’s return to Vietnam. This segment focuses on my own arrival at a place where my platoon was ambushed on the morning of January 15, 1969.

The motto of the 1-50th infantry was “Play the Game.”