In Vietnam, Jeffrey Harris, with one year of grad school, judged which soldiers stayed and which went home. (15 minutes)
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Act One: The Miseducation of Castlemont High
A bunch of high school students gets taken to see a movie that’s supposed to teach them about history.
Act Two: History is Not a Toy
There’s a museum in Baltimore that was created to memorialize the Black experience in America.
Act Four: Rocket Boy
Paul Zimmer is eighty-three years old now, and he’s still haunted by something he saw in his teens.
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Act Four: The Test
Radio producer Scott Carrier quit his job at a low moment in his life.
Act Two: Am Not. Are Too. Am Not. Are Too.
What lessons are civilians taking from the War? One journalist has said that Americans seem condemned "to relive the prewar debates over and over because they were never thrashed out in the sunlight." In Salt Lake City on May 4, the prewar arguments—and some other arguments as well—were re-argued, on stage, by Salt Lake's liberal mayor Rocky Anderson and conservative radio and TV host Sean Hannity.
Act Three: Invisible Girl
Scott Carrier and his family live in the same Salt Lake City neighborhood as Elizabeth Smart, the fourteen-year-old whose kidnapping made international news in 2002.