The Sins of My Father - Craig McNamara - Sactown Magazine

The Sins of My Father - Craig McNamara - Sactown Magazine

If any question why we died Tell them, because our fathers lied —Rudyard Kipling Just tell me the truth. Seems simple enough. Yet for all of my life, I struggled to arrive at the truth with my father. He never told me that he knew the Vietnam War wasn’t winnable. But he did know, and he never admitted it to me. More than a decade after his death, I still wonder why he was no more honest with me than he was with the American public. When I was a …