The Meaning Of Tet (July/August 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 5)

The Meaning Of Tet

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July/August 2001 | Volume 52, Issue 5

The historian Victor Davis Hanson should really not jump on the revisionist bandwagon. Four million dead or wounded Vietnamese and 58,000 dead American servicemen would surely have a different opinion. We Students for a Democratic Society contributed to the self-critique of our society as it struggled with a terrible, divisive, and unjust war. Mr. Hanson should read Thomas Merton’s essay’s against the war; it is he who is on the wrong side of history.