On the Anniversaries of My Lai and Iraq
45 years after My Lai, you might want to read this, from the Washington Post.
On the 45th anniversary of the My Lai Massacre, you might want to read this, from the Washington Post:
Pham Thanh Cong leans forward, his 55-year-old face a patchwork of scars and dents, and explains what’s wrong with My Khe hamlet. Vietnamese families are built around a three-generation structure, Cong says. Parents work the fields while grandparents take care of children. In time, children will become caregivers and grandparents the cared-for. Eventually, the generations will shift and the cycle will repeat. Families have been this way since there were families in Vietnam.
But in My Khe, a generation is missing.
On the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, you might want to read this, from Dan Savage in 2002:
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