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But how could the international press, and the State Department, remain entirely untroubled by the fact that this was achieved through the mass murder of unarmed civilians?
Howard Federspiel, at the State Department, summed up the answer perfectly. "No one cared," he recalled, "as long as they were Communists, that they were being butchered."

remember not to think any positive thoughts about anyone in the US government

i feel like growing up we were all so desensitized to louisiana’s coastline disappearance because it was just another fact of life. i never knew just how beautiful and lush the place i grew up used to be just a few generations before. i never knew as a child i was growing up in a desecrated environment.

my high school english professor really undersold how much of a monster harry truman was

“This land disappears because of the intervention of industry, which channels the river and limits its sediment flows, carves up the Gulf of Mexico into oil and gas leases, and draws straight lines for ships and pipes through the soft wetlands into which saltwater flows, ripping and shredding the land into nonexistence.” sigh

th’almighty’s logic kinda crazy

damn

STEVENS FUMBLING OVER AND OVER AGAIN GAHHH IT HURTS

kinda gripping actually wth