 The class that I was teaching was an AP level class made up of 9 through 12th graders. At this point we are in the 1960s looking at, we've looked at foreign policy through the 50s into the 60s. This was the first day of looking at the Vietnam War. I was hoping that students would see the complexity of the Vietnam War and see the complexity of the American public's reaction to the Vietnam War. I was hoping that they would gain some insight of how people were reacting to what they were seeing on television and opening up and seeing in Life Magazine, beginning to get a feel of people unsure of whether this war was a good idea. The lesson is based on opening up the textbook and that would mean that students are being asked to challenge or to look more specifically at the textbook and regard it not as the be all end all of history but regarded as something that can be argued with. Students were given a selection from their textbook about the event and students were asked to think about and write down what sources they felt perhaps were left out of the textbook. Whose voices they would like to hear in addition to what the textbook authors showed in their account. Whose voice do you feel is missing from all of this? Or who would you like to hear more from? From a perspective from the Vietnam rebels they were actually hunting and maybe they could say the operations were actually targeting member civilians. Or somebody said that it wasn't an isolated incident so maybe other situations were something similar occurred and the differences between them so the experiences of other U.S. veterans who did similar things. Eventually they were led to think about the American public, what was the American public thinking as these events came to light.