Lies My Teacher Told Me (Chapter 9)

I found this chapter very humorous. Not because of the controversial information in the text, but because Loewen had done exactly what he expressed as wrong. I was stunned when the chapter abruptly ended in less than fifteen pages, while all the previous chapters were over thirty pages long! In the beginning of "see no evil", Loewen clearly states that it is important to deal with modern events extensively. He has done the exact opposite! 

The text itself was very interesting. All the pictures he had added within the pages, I had seen somewhere. The execution of a Vietcong by officer Nguyen Ngoc Loan is the most memorable of them all. However, I recall that the officer was not actually an corrupt police chief, that he was merely following orders. The photo shot had put him in incredible infamously, and Loan and his family suffered for this picture. 

I think that it is wrong for such a picture to be used to propel the anti-war movement, when the truth was very different from what society believes in. This controversy is a very famous one, and there is no excuse for Loewen to use this photograph in his book and simply describe it as "helped persuade many Americans that their side was not morally superior to the communists." This picture, along with the astonishing length of the chapter, made me lose confidence in Loewen, and cast a shadow on the book itslef.