American History for Truthdiggers: A Cruel, Costly and Anxious `Cold´ War
(WorldNews Germany)

Editor´s note: The past is prologue. The stories we tell about ourselves and our forebears inform the sort of country we think we are and help determine public policy. As our current president promises to `make America great again,` this moment is an appropriate time to reconsider our past, look back at various eras of United States history and re-evaluate America´s origins. When, exactly, were we `great`? Below is the 27th installment of the `American History for Truthdiggers` series, a pull-no-punches appraisal of our shared, if flawed, past. The author of the series, Danny Sjursen, who retired recently as a major in the U.S. Army, served military tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and taught...