Evi B-Z’s struggle for the truth.
January 2nd, 2009 From
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>From: “Louis R. Coatney”
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> > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:09:22 0200
> > From: “Eviather H. Ben-Zedeff”
> > To: “Louis R. Coatney”
>
> > Telling truth is a vital military norm. Telling truth to your
> > people, and especially to your casualties’ next of kin is a force
> > multiplier. Sadly I’d say, personal and organizational considerations
> > seem to be more vital in these suppression cases.
>
>Evi,
>
>In July, I had a long article published in the Illinois Quad Cities’
> ARGUS/DISPACH newspapers debunking the … umm … *myth* … (being
> (further) spread by our local Congressman Lane Evans) … that …
> “Vietnam was a war between the classes in America fought mostly by poor
> blacks, Hispanics, and working class whites.” (Spr95 ARMED FORCES &
> SOCIETY research findings disagree.)
>
>Cngrsmn Evans has strongly supported pro-veteran appropriations
> (which I duly noted), but I said that truthful history and fair,
> faithful remembrance are no less important and that
>
> “Indeed, the Truth is the war memorial that counts most
> … for the future.”
>
>And it is ANY historian’s first duty to find the truth … to tell it …
> and to protect it.
>
>Of course, the book THE FIRST CASUALTY also addresses suppression
> issues.
>
>Good luck in your struggle for the Truth, Evi.
>
>Lou Coatney, mslrc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
> Macomb, Illinois.