Historian John Marciano, author of The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration?, writes frequently on how the United States chooses to remember its military presence in Vietnam. This essay appeared in Truthout.org on August 23:
“The struggle over memory and truth about the Vietnam War continues. It reemerged in May when President Obama announced the opening of Fulbright University in Vietnam, and that Bob Kerrey would chair the board of trustees. Fulbright is the first private university in Vietnam, with ties to the Kennedy Center at Harvard and the US State Department. What does this recent appointment and the controversy surrounding it teach us about the War in Vietnam?…”
Read Marciano’s article in Truthout.org
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