Boy, was I wrong, and I didn’t realize it until the Professor introduced himself at the beginning of the course and proudly boasted he was a draft dodger during the Vietnam War, had ran away to Canada, received a degree in History of the British Empire, Jimmy Carter pardoned him in 1978, and he returned to the U.S. to teach history.
As we all know, the only way you can get through college is to give the professor what he wants to hear, but I’ll be damned if I could do that and it almost caused me to fail the course. Every time this professor spouted something like, “The Domino Theory was false, or the 1968 Tet Offensive was a great communist victory, etc, etc,” I openly challenged him. To have to sit there quietly as this draft dodger spouted untruths about the Vietnam War was more than I could force myself to do.
What we now see on the History Channel and most of the other “educational channels” are only products of our leftist dominated institutions of higher learning. It was once said that the victorious are the ones who get to write the history of a conflict, but that is no more. Now, sadly, it is the ones who run away and hide who get to write the history of what took place.
>>>Boy, was I wrong, and I didn’t realize it until the Professor introduced himself at the beginning of the course and proudly boasted he was a draft dodger during the Vietnam War
Sounds awful. I had a 20th Cent History course taught by a retiree from the USIA (US Information Agency), and he’d been posted in Saigon. So it wasn’t too tragic, he had lots of great stories to tell and was the opposite of “antiwar” (like the discussion of operational Nike sites around DC Metro). Once he brought in a Soviet Embassy staffer for a classroom Q&A, and I could swear I’ve subsequently seen that same guy identified on one of the history shows (TLC,HC, ??) as being a quasi-notorious KGB agent.