I am going to tell you some things that I remember and remind you of some things I still believe in – or want to. If you teach the history of America’s war in Vietnam and its brutal aftermath like I do, you probably know some of this story.  There was the open war, and alongside it the secret war, fought in the mountain terrain of Cambodia and Laos, even after America’s formal withdrawal from Vietnam. America’s staunchest allies in that secret war were mountain highlanders who call themselves Hmong, meaning, “free people.”  When Saigon fell, and it became clear Read more