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Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War
Date: 23 May 2011, 17:28

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In 1994 I traveled for six days with one of the "big-name" journalist from the Vietnam War era. Serendipity had brought us together; both on our first return visits to Vietnam since the war. We had our agreements, and our (civil) disagreements, about the wars of the past, and the ones to come. Murray Fromson shared with me an experience from the very final days of the American war in Vietnam; he was still working in the Saigon bureau a few days before the fall of the city. The report came in that a C-5A Galaxy had crashed just after takeoff from Tan Son Nhut. He was the first on the scene, and reported the devastation; the babies and small children, the orphans of the war who were being evacuated, and now lay, scattered across the fields, dead. He cried while reporting the story, and almost 20 years later, he was still deeply rankled that he had been upbraided by the "brass" of CBS in NYC for being "unprofessional." After seeing the devastation of South Lebanon; the impact, particularly on the old, the crazies, and the babies who suffered under the bombs, Megan Stack also cried. We need more such "unprofessional" journalists; those who can see, and be moved by it; who know that nothing justifies such suffering. Ms. Stack has performed the essential journalist function: she has helped us all to see, if we are willing. An important, 5 ? star book that should be read in all our schools, but particularly in the think tanks that construct the reasons why all of this is justified by America's `security needs.'
A final piece of gratuitous advice that I hope finds its way to Ms. Stack: You've paid your dues; never let the siren song of the adrenalin rush of war call you back. You've done enough to help the rest of us see; go peacefully among the many countries that still have a tenuous hold on that marvelous state.

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