I agree with Casey's post on why Spielberg hasn't made any movies based on Vietnam. As demonstrated in the movies we have seen, many times soldiers lose thoughts on why they are fighting there and in the end, America lost the war and many lives. Like Jim Shephard said in the article, "Saving people has of course been the main narrative feature of most of Steven Spielberg's work."
Shephard also writes, "Such entertainments are meant to make audiences feel good, because audiences want to feel good." We wouldn't feel so good about losing thousands of lives in Vietnam when many of these soldiers lost sight of what they were fighting for. We also wouldn't feel so good for losing so many lives in a war we lost.
Spielberg's decision not to make any Vietnam movies could just be one of preference. In Shephard's article we learn that Spielberg made two movies when he was just fourteen. They were boys' versions of World War II: Escape to Nowhere and Fighter Squadron. World War II may have just been a personal interest of Spielberg when he was younger and stuck with him as he directed more movies later on in his life.
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