The biggest thing I’ve realized about this week’s readings
and topics were about how skewed U.S. history has been taught in the educational
system. A lot of it has been focused on the reasons why and how the folks were
able to overcome adversity through these wars. It may be one of the main reasons
why I personally don’t like history to this day. Just learning about the massacres
that had occurred during this time something that may be too graphic for high school
textbooks, but some kind of truth needs to be stated somewhere. In relation to
the Southeast Asian community today, this could help to explain why a lot of us
at our own younger have this identity issue of where we come from and where we
belong. This new American identity that we were given doesn’t full fit us
because our trauma still lies with our families’ past. The question I have here
pertains to the hidden voices of war. Where can we start a foundation for those
who have been silenced for so long because of historical secrets? It’s become so
disheartening to see that these untold stories have become stories of glory
instead. My sense was that there were always “bad people” that we, the U.S., were
fighting against, but in actuality, there is a whole lot larger and deeper perspective
to the many facets of this war.
Citation:
Turse,
Nick. Kill Anything That Moves:
U.S. War Crimes and Atrocities in Vietnam, 1965-1973. 2005.
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