That reminds me, almost ten years ago my son, a student at the Governor's School in Richmond, called me and asked me to pick him up at the VCU library where he was working on a history paper. I went in to find him, and there he was in a cubicle with 125 books on the Vietnam War -- I couldn't  believe there were that many!!! And he told me, "these are just the interesting ones"

Jessica


On Mar 23, 2012, at 1:45 AM, Paul Heinegg wrote:

> When my wife went back to Temple University to complete her college degree, she was the only student in her History class who knew enough about the Vietnam War to discuss it in class. Apparently, the state textbook commissions find the subject distasteful. In a senior class on History which included History majors, she was the only one who knew about My Lai, any of the famous photos from the war, or even that we lost-- because she had read the newspapers of the time.
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