If you’ve been watching Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War,” you begin to realize that then is, at root, now. While the culture is different, we are still fed the stew of corruption, brutality, heroism, ego, arrogance, ignorance, white elders sending young men and women to their deaths or the ruin of their lives, poor care for returning veterans, the besmirching of America’s global image and more.
Efforts to cover up America’s failures, to deny them, to hide from them only set us up to fail again. Our Constitution and the government built on it don’t need to be protected from failure. Rather its strength is in its ability to hold our country together despite the struggles we face.
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