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Re: Vietnam War Anniversary



5/2/00

        Particularly since, as one historian noted in an article in USN&WR a while
back on the "failure" to predict the breakup of the USSR, "historians
cannot even predict the past, let alone the future".

Ed Southern


At 03:36 PM 05/02/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Ronnie,
>
>Again, your post is way off-topic.  However, I will say that, according to
>the "received wisdom" in the discipline of history you CANNOT
>accurately predict how things will turn out in the future based on past
>events.
[snip]

>
>Mark D. Jaeger
>Purdue University Libraries
>Special Collections
>
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