Campus Disorder: The Good News About the Bad News

Commentary During the years the leaders of the self-declared peace movement sought and cheered the victories of the communist enemies in Indochina, the American news media largely praised their heroics and vilified American troops and police officers. The majority was silenced. This is how it is still done in dominant histories and documentaries on Vietnam. In particular, America’s top documentarian Ken Burns glorifies members of a small group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW,) rather than the 90 percent of Vietnam vets still proud of their service in a war incompetently conducted. During that era, the media largely covered up the peace movement’s support of the enemy in war and its laundered communist funding. Portrayed as antiwar, they tended to support the other side. To this day, most movement survivors still do. They gather regularly to celebrate their contributions to Indochinese regimes that have murdered more people than those lost during the war....