Sixties Deja Vu: Don't Consider America's Armed Forces 'Victims'
TimesDispatch.com
BY PAUL GALANTI
TIMES-DISPATCH GUEST COLUMNIST
Jan 28, 2007
"Since I was otherwise occupied as a POW in Hanoi and wasn't able to observe firsthand, I suppose it was a '60s thing -- when everybody who was anybody was or deeply aspired to be a victim. And, later, when the soldiers who'd fought valiantly in a war they actually won handily en route to defeating an entire evil empire demanded the same respect given every other element in society -- deserving or not -- they were accorded their own category of victimhood and enshrined in the most out-of-sight, obscure memorial in Washington, D.C. The re-writing of history to correct the many historical perversions has been very slow in coming." Read on....
Go read it. It's worthy of your time.
BY PAUL GALANTI
TIMES-DISPATCH GUEST COLUMNIST
Jan 28, 2007
"Since I was otherwise occupied as a POW in Hanoi and wasn't able to observe firsthand, I suppose it was a '60s thing -- when everybody who was anybody was or deeply aspired to be a victim. And, later, when the soldiers who'd fought valiantly in a war they actually won handily en route to defeating an entire evil empire demanded the same respect given every other element in society -- deserving or not -- they were accorded their own category of victimhood and enshrined in the most out-of-sight, obscure memorial in Washington, D.C. The re-writing of history to correct the many historical perversions has been very slow in coming." Read on....
Go read it. It's worthy of your time.
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