HIST 115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Deeper Understanding, Counter-Insurgency
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The problem for future american youngsters and leaders who have no experience of war and little or no comprehension of it is even worse. Only educated adults can not disagree with the children about the fighting. Have served in vietnam and many painful memories of that period still exist. A california veteran confided to me that he couldn"t "talk about vietnam without the flashbacks coming back. " Another from texas shared, "my daughter asked me to talk to her high school class about the war. I couldn"t do that for fear of losing my composure. " In regular textbooks, content varies from a few lines to a few chapters. Perhaps the most common objection to teaching the war is that it"s. Can"t allow educators to censor a topic in a nation that went to war for being controversial in the name of democracy!
