Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam 1987

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.

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The cast

Ellen Burstyn Mrs. Stocks (voice)

Tom Berenger (voice)

J. Kenneth Campbell (voice)

Richard Chaves (voice)

Josh Cruze (voice)

Willem Dafoe Elephant Grass (voice)

Robert De Niro Great Sewer (voice)

Brian Dennehy (voice)

Kevin Dillon Jack (voice)

Matt Dillon Mike (voice)

Robert Downey Jr. (voice)

Michael J. Fox Raymond Griffiths (voice)

Mark Harmon (voice)

John Heard Johnny Boy (voice)

Top billing shown. Full cast and crew on IMDB ↗

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