The Longest War: Born on the Fourth of July, By Roger Ebert

The Longest War: Born on the Fourth of July, By Roger Ebert

EXCERPT: "There is a temptation for an American, reading these
articles, to feel smug. And yet - hold on a minute, here. We had our
own disastrous foreign policy mistake, the war in Vietnam. When is
President Bush going to get up before Congress and read an apology to
the Vietnamese? Never, is the obvious answer. We hail the Soviet bloc
for its honesty but see no lessons for ourselves. And yet we have been
issuing our own apologies, of a sort. A film like Oliver Stone's "Born
on the Fourth of July" is an apology for Vietnam, uttered by Stone,
who fought there, and Ron Kovic, who was paralyzed from the chest
down..."


http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_...12/388523.html

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Otis Willie
Associate Librarian
The American War Library
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