My Lai Massacre by US soldiers in Vietnam

[Army of One]

Damn never saw this pic.Seconds after this picture was taken they were all murdered by us troops, the woman on the right buttoning her blouse had just been raped.500 villagers murdered, gang raped, mutilated  



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

[Desperate]

You must not have gotten the memo........ALL US Troops/Veterans are Heroes! Even the sadists, rapists, and murderers. Oorah

[visualizeperfection]

Why is the old woman’s head so much larger than her body?

[Desperate]

A group of Hero US Marines playing with a puppy 

https://twitter.com/bearyear/status/1018787019911286784?lang=en

[Desperate]

Why is the old woman’s head so much larger than her body?

Gasparism

[kreator]

A war brings out the worst in people.

[Desperate]

A war brings out the worst in people.

It only brings out who you truly are.......

A Real Hero....
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jun/02/ussport

[Tennisballz]

The US war machine has always been in full swing...send the poor to do the job so the elites can continue to profit.

[IroNat]

It common in war to dehumanize the enemy.  Makes killing them easier.  The line gets blurred sometimes by the participants.

Countries survive by taking needed resources that they don't have at home by taking them from other parts of the world.

If not by paying for them, then by force.  Your high standard of living is the result.  Do you want to keep it?

An obvious example is Japan importing metals from the USA prior to WW2, taking Indonesian oil by force, etc.

Nazi Germany has no petroleum of its own and hoped to control Middle East oil by force but failed.

The USA buys oil from the Middle East and protects this source using its military.  It used force to protect sugar companies (Spanish-American War) in 1895.

England's pearl was India which it took by force.

The Soviets have done the same.

[JustPlaneJane]

My dislike of the Vietnamese people stems from them not killing John McCain.

[LanceD]

It only brings out who you truly are.......

A Real Hero....
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jun/02/ussport

Should never have been allowed to enter military or his brother, friendly fire victim.

[Desperate]

Should never have been allowed to enter military or his brother, friendly fire victim.

Yes, murdered, due to his upcoming meeting w/ Noam Chomsky to write a book, a book against the US War machine, exposing the crimes he witnessed in-country.
His family says he was murdered, as well.

[Desperate]

My dislike of the Vietnamese people stems from them not killing John McCain.

They kept him alive due to his beautiful voice, when he would sing songs

[Fortress]

This story is a nightmare.

And the woman buttoning her blouse (with the child) bothers me something fierce. The shock, trauma and destroyed spirit of a female just sexually assaulted is absolutely captured in that photo.

If I was prone to crying, I would viewing this picture.

“The evil that men do ...”

 

[Humble Narcissist]

My dislike of the Vietnamese people stems from them not killing John McCain.

[oldtimer1]

If you are going to tell the story tell the whole story The village were thought to be complicit with the Vietcong. 28 Americans were killed because of their deception and the minefields they allegedly put out. The men in the village were suspected of picking up a rifle at night then pretending to be innocent farmers in the day time. In the end no one could deny this was an horrific killing of innocents also.  The problem with a gorilla type war is enemy combatants pretended to be south Vietnamese or civilians. Having soldiers killed by these games set the wheels in progress for these horrific killing of civilians.  No justification for killing the women, children and babies.  

[Humble Narcissist]

If you are going to tell the story tell the whole story The village were thought to be complicit with the Vietcong. 28 Americans were killed because of their deception and the minefields they allegedly put out. The men in the village were suspected of picking up a rifle at night then pretending to be innocent farmers in the day time. In the end no one could deny this was an horrific killing of innocents also.  The problem with a gorilla type war is enemy combatants pretended to be south Vietnamese or civilians. Having soldiers killed by these games set the wheels in progress for these horrific killing of civilians.  No justification for killing the women, children and babies.  

Plus if your a soldier who's seen your buddies blown to bits or shot dead by a sniper you're scared and nervous as Hell that you may be next.  This causes fear and rage that makes people do crazy shit.  Not excusing it just saying.  War is Hell.

[Fortress]

Plus if your a soldier who's seen your buddies blown to bits or shot dead by a sniper you're scared and nervous as Hell that you may be next.  This causes fear and rage that makes people do crazy shit.  Not excusing it just saying.  War is Hell.

Your comments and those of the poster above yours are why I didn’t comment on the rights or wrongs of the situation. Of course, the rapes are entirely without justification, but the killings ... I wasn’t there.

The horrors of war can mutate the mind unrecognizable from one once thought “sane”.

It’s impossible for a person who wasn’t in such a predicament to forecast what would become of himself.

War is indeed hell.

[LittleJ]

This story is a nightmare.

And the woman buttoning her blouse (with the child) bothers me something fierce. The shock, trauma and destroyed spirit of a female just sexually assaulted is absolutely captured in that photo.

If I was prone to crying, I would viewing this picture.

“The evil that men do ...”

 

Wow I'm shocked! Did you give your password away? Wtf

[SF1900]

Wow I'm shocked! Did you give your password away? Wtf

I thought he’d be happy about the massacre.

[LittleJ]

I thought he’d be happy about the massacre.

I thought so too.

[Henda]

Horrible photo the fear on the little girls face on the left is haunting wish I’d never seen this 

[mazrim]

I usually give the benefit of the doubt to our troops, but it is amazing that essentially no one was held to account for this in any meaningful way when it became beyond clear that this was unwarranted. I understand that things happen but this was way beyond that.

I think of my little two year old and makes me want to throw up to imagine little guys like that getting slaughtered.

[Mitch]

Why is the old woman’s head so much larger than her body?

Wong Hong's sister.

[Kwon]

I thought he’d be happy about the massacre.

Why?