As we approach the anniversary of JFK's assassination...

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I actually had something cleared up for me in the book, and Anita reinforced for me. I was in college and my first years of teaching for much of the Vietnam War. I was so busy learning and teaching history, that I was not absorbing all of the current events swirling around me.

I remember being horrified by the images of the Buddhist monks burning themselves alive in protest of the government, but I don't think that I ever really understood why. It took O'Reilly's book to give me the answer: The U.S.-backed, Catholic regime in Vietnam was really conducting a religious war on the Buddhists.