Taken from The Struggle Continues in Fayetteville by Janet B. Curry:
The history department of a suburban St. Louis public high school where I teach organized an all-day, in-school "field trip" on the war in Vietnam. One of the opening speakers, Barry Romo, was asked what he, as a Vietnam veteran, thought of the Iraq war. His answer was that it was every bit as much of a mistake as Vietnam, only worse, because we did not learn from Vietnam. As I considered the response of this group of about three hundred sophomores, in a school whose students voted overwhelmingly for Kerry last November, I was drawn to a minority of students who felt Romo had broken some rule, gone too far.... Read More
