"Twenty years later I was speaking to my son's HS History class.
I asked how many knew about My Lai? Only one hand went up. "
Sad, sad, sad...to see how wretched (and dishonest) the teaching of
history has become in about one generation.
You had an experience that matches that of the historian David McCullough;
scroll down to the heading of "Our Failure, Our Duty" and read
the first paragraph (under that heading).
http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/2005/April/
Thanks.
I remember at the time of the Peers Commission and the Calley Court-Martial, everyone figured the military would never forget. Didn't take long.
Do you think there are many in this country who know or care about the hundreds of thousands of lives lost as a direct result of our cutting and runnng from Viet Nam?