while I have no idea what the gist is of the 60 Minutes story you've mentioned, that phenomenon is a fairly common affliction of being incarcerated. Often, the things that happen to prisoners during their "time" and the myriad of crap they must face and acclimate to, out of a necessity to survive, makes recovering from their sentence once they are released from prison much worse than anything relating to the original crime that put them there.
As for the Vietnamese singing about their incredible feat, I must ask, have you ever read the Pentagon Papers? The immorality of that time rests solely on the leaders of our nation for waging a totally unjustified, illegal conflagration on the people of Vietnam. Any exposure that you may think that CBS is guilty of now, to the actual truth behind the Vietnam War, in showing the singing of victory songs in Hanoi so that our own young people might question or be sparked to investigate that era of our history, is a good thing.
I would suggest you consider the words of Mike Gavel, who, as a Democratic Senator back in 1971 took on the task of presenting the Pentagon Papers to Congress, so that they might ultimately be made public:
It is past time for our nation to rise to its true greatness, by acknowledging the
moral wrong we committed in fighting an "unjust war" and by seeking forgiveness
from all of these aggrieved parties:
The people of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and other areas of Southeast
Asia who still suffer the wounds of an "unjust war". (Maybe we could even
find it in our hearts to some day give them foreign aid as we have done to
so many less-deserving regimes.)
The families of Vietnamese service personnel and civilians, and the
families of American service personnel who suffered the loss of loved
ones in an "unjust war".
The veteran patriots sent to fight by amoral leaders in an "unjust war".
The moral patriots who agonized over decisions to suffer imprisonment or
flee their country rather than fight an "unjust war".
The sunshine patriots who are vilified by the media for their use of
influence to secure educational deferment or service in the National Guard
rather than fight an "unjust war".
And the American people who, though lied to and misled by their leaders,
still must suffer complicity in their nation’s policy to prosecute an "unjust war".
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