Quote of the Day: March 28, 2007

Censorship and the Vietnam War

“Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.”

— Gen. William C. Westmoreland, American commander in the Vietnam War

 

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