The Attack We Do Not Speak Of

June 8th, 2012
by F. Grey Parker

45 years ago today, the U.S. suffered a brutal military humiliation as the result of a sneak attack.

Most Americans have never heard of it.

The conspiracy-minded traffic in fringe theories about it.

What little discussion there actually is of the event often results in accusations of racial or cultural bias against those who have the nerve to bring it up at all.

But it did happen...