Indian country revisited
When I was younger, I asked my teacher, all the time in fact, why do we have to learn this. Her response was always, “you’ll need it when you grow up.” Math, science, and English, I understood, but history was different. She said that we must learn our history so as not to repeat the errors of the past. I still don’t believe this. In Vietnam, Americans, foreigners to their land, came in and sought to take what wasn’t ours to take. Did we not also do this when we, the British, came to the Americas to take the land. Sure we said that we were seeking religious freedom, but was that why we were really there? We were in Vietnam to fight for economic freedom (against communism), but was that really why? Vietnam was nothing more than the entire cowboys and Indians situation all over again, but with a different outcome. I propose then, why need history? If this situation was the same as taking the Indians’ land, then we didn’t learn from our history, and therefore it is worthless. In Robin Moore’s, The Green Berets, he even refers to the entire conflict as Indians and Cowboys, but how accurate is this? For references I will be referring to Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone, and Phill
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Approximate Word count = 1122
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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