Viet Nam redux

I'm starting The Things They Carried this week with C Block. I plan on starting by reviewing the facts of the war, which are so vivid to me, but unknown to them. As I start this unit, my frustration with Iraq grows. As I look at the pictures of young men in battle, I grow sad. We will forever repeat history and the grief it brings. The false patriotism kills me just as it kills thousands of innocents. So it goes.