Yet something must have gone wrong. As a European, I&#x27;ve met many Americans who only learned of the US losing the Vietnam war, when they were in Europe.<p>Some of them might not have been that bright, though. I remember an exchange student protesting a poem we read in English class because she thought it implied the US lost the war. There was complete silence in class and our teacher just said &quot;well, they did lose.&quot; She actually said &quot;No, we won it when we threw the bomb on Hiroshima.&quot;