Paget (LJW), April 11 2004

Text Source

Paget, Mindie. "Husband-wife poets pen verse to cope with horrors, profound dignity of death." Lawrence Journal-World (Lawrence, KS: Lawrence Journal-World; http://www.ljworld.com. April 11 2004): http://www.ljworld.com/section/archive/story/166961.

Message Unit 2 - an example of patriotized history



		core myths: self-defense/nonaggression myth



		unpatriotized history: US troops were the attackers; they were not fighting in self-defense. The US went to Vietnam; the Vietnamese did not go to the US. The US chose to fight the Vietnamese; the Vietnamese had been US allies, and did not want to fight the US.



		message (of patriotized history): US troops were fighting in self-defense, in response to an attack by someone else.



		patriotic change (of history): attack-response reversal



		technique: fact displacement

text:

... comrades mowed down by enemy fire and killed North Vietnamese soldiers before they could kill him.
...
... his would-be murderer.

Message Unit 3 - an example of patriotized history



		core myths: self-defense/nonaggression myth



		unpatriotized history: US troops and their leaders were foreign aggressors; the people they were fighting against were not.



		message (of patriotized history): US troops and the people they were fighting against were both victims; their leaders were both foreign aggressors.



		patriotic change (of history): attack-response reversal



		technique: fact displacement

text:

I've come to realize
that you and I
have more in common
than we did with the men who sent us to kill each other.

Paget (LJW), April 11 2004

Text Source

Message Unit 2 - an example of patriotized history

core myths:

unpatriotized history:

message (of patriotized history):

patriotic change (of history):

technique:

text:

Message Unit 3 - an example of patriotized history

core myths:

unpatriotized history:

message (of patriotized history):

patriotic change (of history):

technique:

text: