Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Originally Posted By: Clevy
Originally Posted By: morepwr
I cant even comprehend how evil a group has to be to kill children. Awful.
Please
Remember Vietnam. How many Americans opened up on villages with women and children.
Glass houses.
If you were not there how can you possibly know? I was there and you're way off base. I was a Navy Corpsman on duty with the Marines and we set up clinics that supplied healthcare to the locals and did a lot of good work. I was a US Navy SARC/IDC (look it up) and I speak with some knowledge and authority. Our healthcare efforts never got one mention in the current media. We tried to bring reporters to the villages to see and possibly work with us and they would never go. They always said they could write their stories without going outside the military compounds. Yes there were problems but very few and war after all is dirty business and politics and the media are even worse. So, believe what you will if facts disturb your train of thought. We did not cut off any heads or torture anyone and we certainly did not rape any little girls. Your mindless accusations mark you a one of the new American faithful. But worry not, the rest of us will still take care of your rights as an American. You need not participate in the struggle to enjoy the privileges, you can stay at home with your friends.
Remember My Lai Massacre ?
The lieutenant who ordered the killing of several hundreds civilians in My Lai village served only few years under house arrest.
You were in Vietnam and you forgot My Lai Massacre ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. It was committed by U.S. Army soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated.[2][3] Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest.
I did not forget. Never lecture me about anything to do with Vietnam. Evidently you assume I'm stupid. I just made some comments on my experience, what I actually saw, experienced and did. I can only speak for myself. I delivered 3 babies in the jungle in the most difficult of conditions, bad storms and people shooting at each other. I witnessed countless times when Marines risked their lives to save or help locals. We won hearts and minds with the non-combat work we did. We built roads, bridges, purified drinking water, erected homes for the villagers and medical treatment facilities. And probably none of this ever made the news because it did not go well with media and the protests. We did not make policy. We did all this because we're humans willing to help others. Until you carry a loaded weapon in a combat zone and put your life in the hands of the man standing next to you, you will never understand the brotherhood and freedom will remain just an abstract concept. In the middle of all this controversy a few of us kept the faith. It would please me to no end if you would keep your unformed comments directed at your friends.