Lies My Teacher Told Me

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9.


SEE NO EVIL


CHOOSING NOT TO LOOK AT THE WAR IN VIETNAM


If we do not speak of it, others will
surely rewrite the script. Each of the
body bags, all of the mass graves
will be reopened and their contents
abracadabraed into a noble cause.
—GEORGE SWIERS, VIETNAM VETERAN^1

We have destroyed their two most
cherished institutions: the family and
the village. We have destroyed their
land and their crops.... We have
corrupted their women and children
and killed their men.
—MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.^2

Without censorship, things can get
terribly confused in the public mind.
—GEN. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND^3
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