Anti-Vietnam War demonstration (Wikimedia Commons) By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost This is the third part of my exploration of how high school American History textbooks describe American wars and the opposition to them. Part 1 dealt with the American Revolution, the Mexican-American War, Spanish American War and World War I. Part 2 focused on […]
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Ron Kovic: “A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy”
Ron Kovic. There are very few, if any, positive takeaways from America’s harrowing war in Vietnam. There are also few honest chronicles that made the atrocities from that insidious venture known to the world. Ron Kovic, who emerged from the Vietnam War severely wounded and distraught, became one of its most well known and celebrated […]
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Patrick Lawrence: Ðiên Biên Phú at 70
Diorama of Peasants Assisting Struggle at the Dien Bien Phu Victory Museum in Vietnam. (Adam Jones, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News I had the most salutary email the other day, a reviving lift amid these, humanity’s darkest days, surely, in the memory of anyone living. It was from George Burchett, an Australian […]
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Ron Kovic: “A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy”
Ron Kovic. There are very few, if any, positive takeaways from America’s harrowing war in Vietnam. There are also few honest chronicles that made the atrocities from that insidious venture known to the world. Ron Kovic, who emerged from the Vietnam War severely wounded and distraught, became one of its most well known and celebrated […]