harming South Vietnam.These people said that there was not much sense in
destroying the country to save it from communism.”
19 John Kerry testimony reprinted in Williams et al., eds., America in
Vietnam, 295.
20 George W. Chilcoat shows how the songs of the Vietnam War era—from
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” and “Give Peace a Chance” on the
antiwar side to the pro-war “Okie from Muskogee” and “Ballad of the Green
Berets”—provide students with a fascinating introduction to its issues in “The
Images of Vietnam: A Popular Music Approach,” Social Education 49 (1985):
601-3.
21 Frances FitzGerald, America Revised (New York: Vintage, 1980), 126.
22 In “Falling Dominoes,” New York Review of Books, 10/27/1983, 19,
Theodore Draper points out that under this rhetoric, the size, location, and
importance of the country and of the actual threat facing it or us was beside the
point, for such an argument would rationalize intervention anywhere in the
world.
23 See Richard Drinnon, Facing West (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1980), and Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence
(Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973).
24 John Foster Dulles, quoted in Williams et al., eds., America in Vietnam,
167.
25 Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake (Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown,
1972), offers insight into why the United States intervened; Stanley Karnow,
Vietnam (New York: Viking, 1983), describes how the escalation occurred.
26 Linda McNeil, “Defensive Teaching and Classroom Control,” in Michael
W. Apple and Lois Weis, eds., Ideology and Practice in Schooling
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), 116, 126-27; see also David
Jenness, Making Sense of Social Studies (New York: Macmillan, 1990), 270-
75; and Jim DeFrongo, “How Sociologists Can Help Prevent War” (Storrs,
CT: n.d., typescript). The Vietnam War is similarly minimized in the museum
aircraft carrier Intrepid in New York City. The museum’s film and slide shows
simply omit Intrepid’s role in that war. According to the board of retired
admirals that vets the museum’s interpretive programs by order of the navy,
Vietnam is too “political.” See James W. Loewen, Lies Across America (New