KK4TL wrote:
ospam (Michael Bryant) wrote ...
Any clear-thinking individual would agree that many American soldiers did
indeed carry out atrocities in VN.
Ok professor. You're on. I'm a clear-thinking individual and I will
NOT agree to your proposal here. How many is "many"? Ok there was My
Lai. Rattle off a few others. And demonstrate your meaning of
"many". A hundred? A thousand? Ten thousand? Granted one is too
many. But how many is "many" ?
You can start with a quick search for "Tiger Force", or 'Vietnam
+"necklace of ears"':
"Sergeant Forrest Miller told Army investigators the killing of
prisoners was "an unwritten law." Other soldiers said they sought
revenge in the villages after unit members were killed and injured
during sniper and grenade attacks.
Soldiers often cited conflicting views of commanders as a reason they
killed unarmed people. Some commanders told investigators that civilians
could be targeted in certain circumstances; others said they could never
be attacked. During the Army's investigation, 27 soldiers said severing
ears from dead Vietnamese became routine.
"There was a period when just about everyone had a necklace of ears,"
former platoon medic Larry Cottingham told investigators.
The atrocities carried out by the unit came just months before the
killing of about 500 Vietnamese civilians by an Army unit in 1968 at My
Lai."
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