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BigmanPigman

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2. I spent Memorial Day reading and watching info on the My Lai
Tue May 28, 2019, 12:12 AM
May 2019

Massacre there in 1968. 500 innocent Vietnamese women, children and elders were murdered by Americans. They were unarmed, eating breakfast and were brutally rounded up and shot Nazi-style. The soldiers raped them then killed them (scalped, slit throats, cut out tongues, cut off hands, burned whole families alive in their huts, and murdered all the animals). When word got out a few years later the govt had a huge cover-up. The only person punished was Lt Calley who was under house arrest. Nixon pardoned him and Carter also got support from Americans to forgive him since he was "only following orders" (he personally killed over 100). He got so much fan mail that he had to move once. The Nazis at Nuremberg used the same defense..."we were following orders".

There are no good wars.

https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/my-lai-massacre-1

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