Montana, we’re being lied to while our veterans in Congress remain silent

Rep. Ryan Zinke campaigning in Bigfork, Montana leading up to the 2022 midterm election (Photo via Ryan Zinke for Congress Twitter).

Those of us who came of age during the ’60s well remember the Vietnam War, its horrific toll of human life, its cost, the division it caused, and its long-term effects upon those who served and survived.

We also remember the phony incidents and propaganda that threw our young men and women into combat in what became our nation’s longest war…which we lost.

As noted in 2008 by the U.S. Naval Institute in reference to the Gulf of Tonkin incident: “But once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about