Gulf of Tonkin.

I was in second grade. I was home with the chicken pox. My dad took a look at my social studies book to see what was written about Vietnam. Keep in mind, this is for second graders, so it would have been just the highlights.

He exploded!

He vehemently asked how can they do this? They are lying to my children! This is a lie, I was there, it didn't happen like this.

I began to realize that our government, the schools, and the press were not to be trusted. It scared me. I would not be fully awake until much later, but I was predisposed from that point on to not fully trust these entities.

Gulf of Tonkin.

I was in second grade. I was home with the chicken pox. My dad took a look at my social studies book to see what was written about Vietnam. Keep in mind, this is for second graders, so it would have been just the highlights.

He exploded!

He vehemently asked how can they do this? They are lying to my children! This is a lie, I was there, it didn't happen like this.

This was in 1975.

I began to realize that our government, the schools, and the press were not to be trusted. It scared me. I would not be fully awake until much later, but I was predisposed from that point on to not fully trust these entities.

My dad died 2 years later at 33 y.o. from cancer. His doc suspected agent orange was the cause.