Morning announcements

[maeve66]

These are read every morning by "leadership students", e.g. Student Council members. This morning's history nugget was that X number of years ago (I don't recall what they said, because I wasn't listening until the following gem) "15,000 refugees left the kum-YOON-ist country of Cambodia, SUB-squinet to...." blah blah blah I stopped listening to marvel at those pronunciations, especially of communist. Oh, ancient history. Oh, students born in 1996, 1995, or 1994.

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[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

This is like when a student of mine asked if I remembered the Korean war.

Dude, I don't even remember Vietnam. I was three when the US pulled out.

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

I was 7; and then 9 when Saigon fell. But my parents woke me up to come out to the living room and watch the coverage on TV, in jubilation, basically.

The thing is, though, I *would* say I remember the Vietnam War, despite being so little. I remember being afraid of all the army green trucks, in Madison, being horrified by that famous photo of the woman who'd been napalmed, worrying everytime I heard a plane overhead, going to demonstrations and helping make signs...