Taken from Notes From the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty:
This past spring, I was re-invited to speak to five Douglas County high school history classes about the Vietnam War. In most respects, those experiences didn't turn out to be a whole lot different from the ones I'd had in the spring of 1998, my first attempt at the "'Nam re-education" of our local youth. For that reason, I had declined Joe's and Jeff's gracious invitation to write an article for the last Veteran about that endeavor.
But then, as I reflected upon round two of my efforts as a sort of volunteer teacher's aide, I remembered one question that a student at one of the high schools had asked. Either I had kind of buried that query in my subconscious, or, more likely, being fifty-three years old I just plain forgot about it - and especially about the students' reaction to my answer. I began to think that there might be something in that experience worth writing about.... Read More
