USS Vincennes incident resurfaces amid debate over girls’ school bombing in Iran

The U.S. paid a $61.8 million settlement to the victims’ families after the USS Vincennes' 1988 shoot-down of Iran Air 655, killing all 290 aboard. We would do well to be more cognizant of history and take stock of the ways that we sometimes can be our own worst enemy, writes a retired public school employee living in Olmsted Falls in a letter to the editor.