Forgetting the Crimes of War – Consortiumnews
In the U.S. political culture, Memorial Day has become one more
chance to glorify American wars and to exploit U.S. soldiers’ deaths to
generate sentiment for more wars, a troubling tactic addressed by Gary G. Kohls and S. Brian Willson.
The bodies of Vietnamese men, women and children piled along a road in
My Lai after a U.S. Army massacre on March 16, 1968. (Photo taken by U.
S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle)
