No matter what the flag is... America, England, Japan, Somalia, India, Afghanistan, France, Russia, China, Israel, Germany, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Pakistan, Rawanda, Egypt, Uganda, Equator, Iraq, Vietnam, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Korea... Crime is still crime no matter what side you're on. Terrible.
Evil and sin has no skin color, uniform or gender and arises anywhere at anytime and gives birth to itself to use the words of Jesus, then when it conceives it gives birth to death…..
War is hell, you did not know who the enemy was, there were many VC women who mingles with the citizens and who would kill you in a moment. This in my opinion was a political money making war for the elites. It seemed lines were drawn on where you could not go to do the most damage, civilians and soldiers died that is war.
I am Hmong, my grandparents and great uncles all fought in this war. I am an orphan of this war, as so is many many of my people. I’m not glad this happened, but it must be remembered so it never happens again. In war, no one is a winner. Everyone is a loser. We all lost someone dear to us. World peace please✌️
@@claudiomutasa4178 Hoa Kỳ đã đẩy Ukraine vào chiến tranh. Và nhìn vào những gì mà chính phủ Hoa Kỳ đã làm cho những đất nước đang bị quân đội Mỹ chiếm đóng.
My son was an Army Ranger in Iraq. He told me his platoon was patrolling at night and came up on a small farmhouse. The father came out with a gun. The soldiers shot him. His son, approximately 10 yo, ran out screaming and picked up the gun. They shot him, too. A woman came out and quietly dragged the boy into the house, then the man. It shook my son up. He said any man would do what that man did. Any son would do what that boy did. He saw himself, our own family, in that family with a bunch of armed foreigners approaching our little farmhouse at night. The platoon picked up the gun and took it with them, a single shot 410, not much of a gun, just a poor farmer in his own home trying to defend his family at night. War is simply a game to the rich and powerful. Common people suffer. In Orwell's Animal Farm, the politicians are the pigs. The soldiers are the vicious dogs. The sheep chant and the workhorses try to hold it all together by working harder. In the end, they are betrayed. Nothing has changed. Power corrupts absolutely. 😢
Your son was nothing but a mercenary for the central bankers who rule by fear, oppression, and control. I hope he realizes that now. He is no hero and neither are any of his brothers in arms.
@CanadianSmoke as President Johnson escalated the Vietnam War the US focused on a target draft age, 19 years old. The military understood then that the 19 year old mind would be the easiest to train without question. And bet your a$$ they were trained as quick reacting killing machines! After the young troops were 1st deployed and saw Viet Cong atrocities being done to South Vietnamese troops and civilians. The young American soldiers focus was crystal clear kill the Cong and obey orders otherwise you'll be killed? It's hard to believe let alone understand unless you were in their situation?
As an American, every single American should be taught about these and other war crimes. Only by knowing our bloody history can we hope to avoid future atrocities
only our war crimes? Every country commits war crimes.We aren't better than other countries when it comes to war. And they definitely aren't better than us.
I was adopted by my grandpa-he fought in Vietnam (drafted 1965) Da Nang, tank operator. He told me some of those men lost their minds and humanity in the jungle. The man who shot himself in the foot isn’t a coward. With all the war crimes being committed that day, I imagine they would’ve shot him too, had he resisted, and would’ve chalked it up to VC resistance. He’s not a coward he was smart, there are no rules with mindless men-there are no rules if war crimes are being committed- My grandpa told me, “Heroes don’t come back. Be smart, dont be a hero.”
My Dad was there and it turned him into a beast.When he got back to the states he got off the drugs and told some stories I never thought he was capable of. He an awesome person war just changes people.Sometimes I wonder how many siblings I have in the area
@@MuchoNoBueno I wish your father and soldiers like him pay for their crimes. The Women, children, and the elderly had suffered as a result of your father's actions along with his compatriots. The last image they saw and felt, it was of your father and his soldiers. Unfortunately, those innocent children will never receive the opportunity to become adults and have a family. But your father had the opportunity to have a family, didn't he? I'm happy your father dealt with his drug addiction, but it doesn't change anything, does it? This whole world makes me depressed. I hate it.
@@robdi4585oh my god man... after I read your comment I felt my heart's gone wild. Such a raw tough truth, it hurts. This world is a mess. It left me disappointed and lost. Violence always owned it...
My husband is a Vietnam disabled veteran and the night terrors that he still has to this day and the memories that he discusses with me still hit him to his core and it's a shame that he left from fighting for the US. Only to come back to the States and be discriminated against racially profiled by the race cops That was supposed to be police officers here in the states it's also a shame that our veterans that served in this war have to fight hard to obtain their benefits owed to them by the VA you're not told about most benefits unless it's by Word of Mouth from other veterans because our government and the VA system would rather have you die before they pay you what they really owe you!
As a high-school student at the time. I remember the protests. My brother was sent to Nam. He committed suicide at 41 because of ptsd and exposure to agent orange.
I had 5 brothers three went to the Military two to Vietnam and one to Germany . The brother that went to Germany was 4 and 5 years older than the two who went to Vietnam , both brothers had some injuries While in Vietnam but came home whole , then they got to the age of 50 years old and here comes the damage done by the orange both died losing legs one lost his sight and legs . One lasted to age 65 the other died at 59 - the older brother who went to Germany is now 80 years old and doing well , We know its the orange because it hits around 50 years or so and they all have mostly the same symptoms. The republicans kept shutting down bills to help the veterans , yet veterans keep voting for republicans ???? i can not wrap my head around that.
Shocked to know every time innocent people are crushes down in such atrocity. In india also we have noticed such brutality many times now due to TH-cam otherwise it all was disappeared in main stream media. 🙏🙏
Not sure, if you have watched this interview yet, but it might be interesting if you haven't. It seems that the photographer held all really incriminating photos back until the last moment.
Hugh Thompson Jr and his crew are probably some of the very few American soldiers that came out of this war as real heroes. Thompson was ostracised and threatened with court martial before he was finally honoured for his actions that day.
Look at CCP, North Korea and Russia today, if the history has a retrial, the old Vietnam war isn’t such a mistake to take place and be so cruel! For communism is corrupt and ugly! Enough ghost homes in China to house the Palestinians today! What communism you asked! The CCP couldn’t even speak their own langue of Chinese and yet are in the UN and world court! 共产主义 ?
Look at CCP, North Korea and Russia today, if the history has a retrial, the old Vietnam war isn’t such a mistake to take place and be so cruel! For communism is corrupt and ugly! Enough ghost homes in China to house the Palestinians today! What communism you asked! The CCP couldn’t even speak their own langue of Chinese and yet are in the UN and world court! 共产主义 ? Now look at Russia, the most intellectual cyber hackers and decryptions in the world, and so Putin is a joke to not knowing what 共产主义 is ! Does it has a soul? Is it a joke?
I was just a baby so I never personally watched the news as it was happening. But as I grew up, the Vietnam War was spoken of in whispers. And any questions I asked were met with a profound silence. I knew it was bad, but didn’t know why or how. Thank you for taking time to keep awareness alive
@@bbmtge Where is the lie? I am a Vietnam combat vet, 67-68. So run your mouth about ‘the lie’ with me! Because most Americans only know a minimal amount about Nam, the conflict and least of all the history of the Vietnamese. If you did, you’d not make ignorant pronouncements. My Lai was real. The massacre was real. And Lt. Calley getting off lightly was real! So where is the lie????
America can use bombs including chemical weapons and nuclear bombs on a civilian population filled with children and nothing will ever happen, why because America is the most powerful country in the world, they love to place the narrative that everyone else is evil, we can use these terrible weapons, but if any other country even conceives of doing the same thing then they are evil.
The only excuse (not reason) is PTSD but that doesn’t fly here. In addition to being murder, intentionally targeting civilians will make other civilians more likely to support the enemy. In the case of WW2 it was partisans. Here it was the VC. My Lai may have killed 4 VC but led to the recruiting of thousands more. The Art of War says to respect those you capture. That way you may have a friend for later. Likely the VC attacks preceding My Lai were by those resisting the same mistreatment that happened at My Lai. The entire war was a mistake of execution. With events like My Lai there’d be no way to win over the civilians to show them that the soldiers had their best interests at heart. Mercy… there’s no mercy in murder, not even for those committing it.
Assange published the names and addresses of soldiers homes while they were in battle. A treasonous crime deserving a capital sentence. He`s lucky to be alive.
@sam70000. Friend, the entire issue relates to the human psyche and is actually very sad, but interesting. History shows numerous cases of young joining military forces. In many cases comments made in hindsight when atrocities or coldblooded murder happened was to the tune of "he was so gentle / unassuming / not violent" etc. Numerous factors are at play such as the military training received and that "an order is an order", weak / dominant personalities in a group scenario, peer pressure, stress and other factors. Weird, but true.
@@B_Don123 I will tell you. The greedy in the shadows sending young men to their deaths. All they have to do is use the word "patriot" and off they go. No thinking required. At all.
The problem with that, is only 1% of actual happenings. They would never dare to release what they did to the women, female children especially. When I was adopted I was deathly afraid of dogs. The Soldiers would capture and torture dogs and then release the dogs to take care of the kids or slow people. You can't really say US soldiers either. That's where things get messed up. Australia, Canada, England etc also had troops over there. "Vietnamese all look alike. You cannot tell who is who. Just shoot and let God sort them out" (The claims of figuring out who is VC and is not.) I remember at a reunion the soldiers crying over this. When you think about what they had to decide. Can you imagine if US or Canada went to war and the Americans came into Canada and told don't shoot the American civilians. How would they know who is who.? Like the civilians shouting "i'm not VC"....civilians shouting "I'm not Canadian" Shoot first and ask questions later.
I remember news coverage of My Lai when I was 11 years old. Even though I was a child, and obviously apolitical, that incident forever changed my view of the U.S. military and the meaning of patriotism. It also made me profoundly cynical about all warfare.
You wouldn't be enjoying all the things if not for the military. I dare you giving up your things for some unrelenting people. Even now your big corps exploit ppl around the world
😂 it really is sad my brother was in that war and he said that the Vietnamese would put hand grenades on the women and children to try to kill the Americans so they had to do something they didn't really want to kill them but they had to they had no other choice and that's why they were smoking weed so that it would smear their memory
As a Vietnam combat medic who was in Nam when the My Lai massacre occurred (but I never heard about it until I came home in Dec. 68), I found the actions of Lt. Calley and others to be inexcusable. The lives of innocent Vietnamese cannot be less precious than the lives of Americans. We were in their country and it reflects poorly on our country when we devalue their lives. Calley was a lying murderous coward and he not only should not have been pardoned, he should have been executed for what he did. My job as a medic was to care for the sick and wounded...and I did that for friend and enemy alike. Some of my fellow soldiers weren't crazy about that but I didn't care as I had to answer for my own actions and choices. Besides I was a Black American soldier who experienced the cruelty of White supremacy in my home country. The Vietnamese were still people in my eyes and many of their soldiers were 'drafted' just like me. And by the way, Calley and Medina's orders were illegal...the soldiers under them had every right to refuse to obey! If they were court-martialed, they probably would have been found not guilty and Calley and Medina would have been court-martialed.
@@foggy561 Whataboutism is a poor comeback in any argument but lets give it a try. What about all the rape charges against US servicemen stationed in Okinawa Japan. A gang rape of a 12 year old girl in 1995 by 3 American servicemen pedophiles and the 69 cases of rape since 2015. What about those..
This becomes more despicable when you realize what was actually done to the women and children there. Calling it a war crime is putting it mildly. It was an act of pure evil. The fact we tried to hide it and downplay it is disgraceful to our country.
I am Hmong, while while I was too young to experience the horrific of this war, I end up grown up here in the US know my family had lost everything. Your hero is my enemy and my hero is your enemy. No one wins except a few corrupt politicians and corporations that gain unimaginable wealth form all the suffering.
My condolences to you and your family for your losses. The philosophy of this government for hundreds of years has been “Might is Right” but this government and this country called America will fall like all the others have in by gone days.
The Vietnam War was hated by many Americans, especially young people. They thought it was all about old men getting money from seller my tanks and weapons. They especially hated Richard Nixon, the president. They wanted peace.
As a German, you might know that Hitler obtained the vast majority of his ideas from careful study of American history; shheeiit, as much as he tried to duplicate the evils of American slavery, he STILL couldn't come close to the level of brutality in what we now know as the holocaust.... Even his "Nuremberg racial purity laws" read absolutely verbatim to the "Black Codes" during the formal period of slavery in the USA!
What distinguishes the My Lai massacre is that there was one courageous photographer who brought this atrocity to light despite strenuous efforts of the US government to suppress the publication of the photographs and many death threats. Once published, the government had no choice but to conduct an "investigation" and conduct some mock "court martials". Despite the abundance of evidence and confessions of the criminals involved, only one man, platoon leader First Lt. William Calley, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. The rest of the murderers were all declared "not-guilty". His sentence, however, was promptly commuted to three years of house arrest during which time Calley attended university courses and received regular visits by his girl friend. He was finally pardoned (by stupid Jimmy Carter). His immediate superior, Captain Ernest Medina was cashiered out of the US Army and was promptly hired by helicopter manufacturer Enstrom Helicopter Corporation, owned by (infamous lawyer) F. Lee Bailey. That the murderers descended upon the villagers from helicopters may have something to do with the reward. There were other such massacres that were never published.
For sure, Republicans/conservatives would do anything to bury atrocities by our military, they did a lot of that recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hundreds of cases that will never see the light of day. Just as truth is not truth to Republicans, evil is not evil.
Yes, when the Koreans entered into the war in My Lai. They showed what atrocious monsters they are. They took little children & babies from their mothers, and threw them into a big fire. The mothers were shot & killed first. I'm sure some mother's witnessed their babies tossed into the fire. This is unforgivable cruelty that I can't call them human. Now after watching this, I heard the US soldiers decapitated babies. This makes them despicable monsters. Never mind you evil murderers. God saw each of you and you will be judged & punished accordingly. Many of these beasts have died already. Good riddance!
A lot of similarities with desert storm as well. Women and children were killed senseless, women were raped, homes were burnt down. This comes to mind when I see homeless veterans begging on a corner. I see karma.
As a Vietnamese with the great patriotism, I definitely thank you for speaking the hidden truth to the world out there, where people are still ignorant of how war crime was conducted by American military. I also subscribed your channel and hit the bell as well as liked the video as a way of saying thanks to you. Keep up your work, bro. God bless you
@@ThomasG.-hh9gg it's a shame to acclaim yourself a hero for killing innocent people before the eyes of those who don't know. Stop messing with others, harming them then calling it legitimate. In fact, there should have been more basic history homework for you instead of jerking people around
Some of our troops came across our captured troops in the jungle tortured to death . They were not the least bit happy and became vigilantes , rightfully so !
Its baffaling to see Phillipines now hosting US bases designed to kill civilians in a future war in the Pacific-the same people who were killed over and over again by the US and the Japs. Are some nations just clinically forgetful?
true, let's try to improve and atone for mistakes.But note Philippines was used as staging ground by the US and Phil forces were used as support , tho not in the asssaults
Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew are the real American heroes of this terrible massacre. These men were better soldiers and honorable people than the brothers in arms they served with.
I heard that it was difficult for them to tell who were civilians and who were Viet Cong and that the Viet Cong hid in the villages with the civilians. I suppose this made the soldiers very nervous and as a consequence trigger happy. Nevertheless it was an evil thing they did.
I was permitted to work for many years of my life under the greatest son whom my people has brought forth in its five thousand-year history. Even if I could, I would not want to erase this period of time from my existence. I am happy to know that I have done my duty as a Vietnamese, as a National Socialist, as a loyal follower of Ho Chi Minh. I do not regret anything. If I were to begin all over again, I would act just as I have acted, even if I knew that in the end I should meet a fiery death at the stake.
This horrible war marked the awakening of my awareness of the evils of humans towards each other. I learned not to trust my government blindly. What happened was inexcusable. Being very young at the time, l was shocked at the atrocities committed by the U.S. government. This has remained with me until today.
Any man gets turned to this when the enemy kills all your friends. You turn into a savage and take the opportunity to take their families. War is brutal and unnecessary.
Us people are US army. US govt. and the US army is made of of US people. All involved USA citizens are terrorists and will go to hell for the crimes they've committed.
There’s a book called “war is a racket” written by retired MARINE GENERAL Smedley butler.I have tremendous respect for this man. When I was in the army I knew soldiers that would question authority. Thomas Jefferson said that dissension is patriotic. QUESTION YOUR LEADERS!!!!!!
The Vietnam war was a very brutal war and only those that were in that war can pass judgment on those soldiers that were at my lay. I am grateful that I was not subjected to those conditions and you should be grateful also. What would you have done if you were subjected to the same circumstances???
It's a good movie but what about what the government did to the soldiers and what about what the American people did to the soldiers I don't blame them at all guess I'm just to close and know too much my father was their you want the whole story go to a Va nursing home before they are all gone they will talk you just have to have the patience and time which none of you have have a good day
As a military cadet in late 70s & early 80s this was taught as an object lesson on the necessity of refusing illegal orders and the importance of understanding what constitutes a war crime.
Exactly, I think the people that are appalled by this aren’t aware that there has not been a war where actions like this and worse is almost a common scenario.
@@kevinbergeman4069 Well things got pretty "SOFTIE" after we left Vietnam. I hear it's gotten so soft, that if you feel someone is too hard on you, you have a little ticket to present to tell them to stop ! I can see it now... present your enemy with a little ticket to tell them to "STOP"
I am indian and have great respect for Vietnamese people...we remember and mention you as the strong headed people who gave tough time to Americans.......
I worked for a company that hired alot of Vietnamese people. I grew to value these people as friends not just co workers. They shared and taught and united to be a force within the company. I would negotiate contract terms differently but still enjoyed working beside them.
Most people don't know that India built it's nukes because US sent nuclear submarines to nuke India in 1971. The pak atrocities of that 71war is also present on this channel.
It's easy to say whatever side your on, this was a disgusting act carried out by the men of honour and freedom. The us is just as self serving as any other country that we are told Re the bad guys
I'm glad someone makes videos like this. most of the foreign youtube channels I've seen before praised how well their soldiers fought. they took our blood to cover the shame of the loser. We fought for our country but they vilified it. I don't hold a grudge against American soldiers either. They also want to fight for their country. In short, what I want to say is that what is past is history, don't be proud of other people's blood. it is the language of hatred and war
I was an American former soldier I served in Vietnam 1967-1969. During my tour I was wounded twice. I was 11 Delta Recon 3rd Platoon A Troop 3/5th Cav. Originally, we worked the Iron Triangle between Bien Hoa and Xwan Loc before being taken North to Hue by LST in late Feb68. Fact is I often felt compassion for the "civilians". You never knew who they "bad" guys were, they could be anybody but if you do want to make an enemy mistreat people is a sure way to make someone switch sides. For the most part they may not like us after all shoe on the other foot we too would be in the same situation. You may not trust them, but you don’t kill a obvious non combatant. I was there when the 4th came ashore, they were green and my observation pretty incompetent. I had been through some shit everything from Ap Bau BangII (google it here) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_battle_of_B%C3%A0u_B%C3%A0ng to Tet68. I heard about Mai Lay and it made me mad, my opinion is that Calley and Medina should have gotten life in prison. They were in a position of authority and responsibility. I know how the grunts felt, being sniped at all day, booby traps, and land mines takes their toll, but American soldiers are supposed to be better than what they did. I remember watching this farmer following his water buffalo through the rice paddy one day and I was thinking to myself he does not give a crap who is running his country they only thing he wants to do is feed and raise his family, we are not the solution here, we are part of the problem, for me I have to be here because a Democrat LBJ took me out of school and sent my ass here to do as he wanted. I didn’t want it, neither did the farmer from earlier. I had a job to do and our motto as the Cav was to find the enemy (they were hard to find) and when the enemy made the mistake of shooting at us is when we react and pile on to kill him. We were pretty good at it too. We received several Presidential Unit Citations, one for Ap Bau BangII. We did not kill civilians but we were real good about killing those that attacked us. Even the road run to Bien Hoa on 29 Jan 68 to go protect the airfield we were attacked 5 times, lead tank had taken 9 RPG's and three times every man on the tank was killed. Each time Capt Garritson would look at three people and say YOU YOU and YOU on one one. ((vehicle11), Was I scared? Fuck yes, he never pointed to me and if he did I dont know what I would have done, I would hope I would do the right things (what ever the fuck that is). He didn't pick me, we lost nearly a hundred men in the five firefights on the way to Bien Hoa and that night, I never got a scratch... that night. Even Ap Bau BangII I never got a scratch. The night I did get a scratch, when the RPG hit the M60 I was shooting everything blew up in my face, I survived, a few scars and I did get most of my eyesight back and as it was to turn out later that day is my sons birthday. Linked forever now. Six hundred and eighty seven days in combat with no breaks, no R&R except my hospital time. Why I stayed longer than I had to is a different story. While there I worked the Iron Triangle, then after TET they put us on LST and shipped us north to Hue to be OP Con to the 1st and 3rd Marine and the 1st Air Cav and the 101 where we worked the Citadel then north along the coast up through Wunder Beach all the way to Dong Ha (through a small village called Bien An that no longer exists. Binh An in Vietnamese means Peaceful, fact is we were just driving by there on our way North when someone from the enemy K14 Battalion 812 Regiment decided to pop off an RPG as one of our ACAV’s Wrong thing to do, the ACAV might have looked like he was all alone but just over the hill behind him as another thirty of us. Once we surrounded them and they refused to surrender the US Navy was brough in to try to convince them a bit more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Binh_An We lost three men, they lost 233 confirmed count and captured 44 of them. The battle lasted three days only because we could not get them to surrender. I remember after pulling the decomposing bodies into a row so they can be accurately counted (and yes they all had uniforms) I was assigned to guard some of the prisoners. I remember looking at the prisoners and wondering if any of them had a hotted up motor bike back home up north. I was wondering maybe we were more alike than not. I had no hatred for them, don’t get me wrong if one of them made a twitch I would kill him in a second, but that is what I am here for. In a way I had respect for him being willing to put his life on the line, probably the same thing I would do if shoe was on the other providable foot. I was never a warrior, I am a builder, I make things, I fabricate, my hands best fit the handles on a lathe or milling machine. In a few weeks we head south back down to Hue and then out across the Perfume River and out Highway 547 into the bottom end of the A Shaw Valley and we are working with the 101 for a few months. This is the bottom end of the Ho Chi Mien Trail where supplies are coming south and it is our job to interdict them. It is all mountains and jungle. There are NO friendlies out here, everything is a free fire zone 24/7. In late January 1969 I end my adventure; I remember the night of 31 Dec 1968 sleeping in the back of a 5 ton truck looking up at the stars listening to the radio and the last song on the radio just before it became 1969 was Paul Murat “Love is Blue”. I am here not because I want to be here, I am here because a bunch of people voted LBJ into office. Personally, I don’t think Kennedy would have sent men to Vietnam, because he himself had been to war and knew the price, not the financial price, that is always there, but the human price. I survived, I went home, found a beautiful woman to marry and went back to school and spent the rest of my life making things, today I am 77 years old, my first wife is dead, after she died I married the first girl I dated (mistake) it cost me $578,000 dollars to get rid of that one (worth every penny) and now my best wife and I have kids both of which are Honors level University graduates and professionals in their chosen fields. I look back and I think what a lucky son of a bitch I am. But that sob Calley and Medina, both should still be in prison. I want to apologize for all this crap but I tell this crap so I can show that I speak with experience. There is no excuse for having no Honor.
Thank you for your service and for your incredible comment. You are a great story teller. My husband’s dad drank himself to death after 3 tours in Vietnam. He died when my husband was 15. He never spoke about his time there. Not once. Very happy you made it home and that you survived to speak about the trauma of war. So many didn’t make it back but even the ones that did lost a piece of themselves they could never get back. I am so fascinated by war history. Mainly because it’s so insane that even today we kill each other to solve problems? Doesn’t make any sense.
Thank you for sharing this Ken. I was able to visualize your story and I even played “Love is blue” while reading this. I’m really glad you came out of the war strong and the way you speak of it shows me that you have your honor and dignity intact. Maybe others weren’t able to speak of the war due to their actions and from that I learned a valuable lesson. The guilt some of those guys must have felt over the years must have been unbearably painful. I appreciate your existence and the path you chose on your journey. Thank you for your service and again for sharing. - 31 year old Vietnamese American
@@fitito500 relentless enemy who attacked the US….it took more than one bomb to get them to stop….and it’s the US’s fault? Plus the US rebuilt their country. Who does that?
So much respect for your courage in sharing and enlightening world wide. Being x military I thank you for your service! Lying to cover up crime is cowardice and of service only to criminals.
The Bible clearly states that GOD does NOT forgive the murder of innocent children. Those soldiers will face God on Judgment Day, and be consigned to the HELL OF FIRE.
I was a Drill Sergeant in 1979 and then an ROTC cadet later on an army scholarship. We were all taught the My Lai Massacre in our classes about following unconstitutional orders. We were told Calley got a life sentence and the number of other soldiers who were charged. They also emphasized that "I was just following orders." It is NOT a valid defense and you are still guilty; that officers who violate their constitutional authority are criminals as soon as they give such an order and that any soldiers who follow those illegal orders are criminal. I think the lesson would have lost its effectiveness if they had told us Calley was pardoned so they left that out. When Reagan was President he issued Executive Order 12333 saying that assassination and torture were inconsistent with American ideals and beliefs and they would be prosecuted as crimes. George Bush Jr. rescinded those orders, and neither Obama nor any other President after Reagan has reinstated them.
I understand bad things happen in War & no one was trusted or knew who the enemy was. But, those Soldiers, who committed murder & rape against innocent civilians. They will be held accountable for their actions one day.
I got to know Hugh Thompson as my VA Rep in Lafayette, LA. in the 90's. I never knew of his specific heroic actions until after he passed and I read his book. He was a genuine and caring man.
My father came back from this war broken and an addict. He would choke my mother in the middle of the night with his night terrors. He told my mother about all of the children he killed and he said that was the hardest for him. He ultimately committed suicide.
I have listened to other 'Nam vets who share they were supplied with drugs to help them cope with the orders they were given and the treatment that the Vietnamese civillians were subjected to.. and other wars the same thing, re the drugs.. so sad.. no one wins in these situations.. all are victims.. Sorry for your dad's and your loss.. what a horrific experience to be put through.. those children are in heaven now.. they don't reject Yahweh's ownership and all belongs to Him so when they leave here they are with Him once more.. your father went through hell on earth.. i pray he found peace with our creator in the moments of his passing from this part of life to the next 🙏 These stories are always heart wrenching.. Peace to you Shylara
My Uncle was in the Vietnam War. He had shrapnal in his back so came home with an honory discharge. He had scars on his back. He had flashbacks of planes in the sky and would say " Do u hear them" He is ok now years later. That war killed and messed up so many lives! 😢😢
Disgusting. As an American, I’m embarrassed by their ruthlessness to say the least. I will never understand how men can justify such violence. That was beyond war, that was personal to every one of those soldiers who did that so willingly.
And you’ve written that using a phone or tablet, which contains minerals and precious stones, mined by little boys in the Congo, used as slave Labour. You’re as guilty as anyone else.
I had a great uncle who was in this war and the things they had to do there haunted him for the rest of his life , he couldn’t even talk about this war without crying and that’s if you were even able to get him to talk about it at all …. God rest his soul
I’ve heard very few of my fathers stories. He was held pow until 1974. He was shot twice in the back and in Hanoi for the last 6 months of the war. The things I’ve heard from my father haunt me
I've heard of this massacre. It sickens me. The details of these events are very heart-wrenching. This makes me feel depressed about life and what human beings are capable of doing to each other.
Ya iraq and libya were no different but now its more if a globalist murderius stakeholder caoitalism agenda.ukraine war us all wef planned money kaundering wealthvtransfer also
I was a soldier in the 90s. My squad were told if you shoot someone their will be an inquiry into that shooting. If it was an enemy combatant the shooting was justified but if it turned out to be a innocent you shot and killed you would be charged with murder. The officials who told us these rules of conduct/engagement were never on the front lines where the shootings took place. Just saying people make rules but you need good commanding officers to carry those orders/ rule out. I can see what happened in this video, their CO wanted payback for their much loved Sargent who had been killed the day before, so he ordered the massacre. Unacceptable and all men should be accountable for their own actions. Murder is murder, even it is 1000s miles away from home. I think the government wanted more support for the war in Vietnam that’s why it was never truly brought to the war crimes committee.
When you vote in 2024, remember Trump pardons war criminals, if this stuff bothers you. He will encourage soldiers to be brutal and as cruel as possible to reflect the dark soul of this man.
So all the people shot are enemy combatants and if whistleblowers and journalists like Assange come with proof to counter that, you imprison and torture them. Use the establishment media to prevaricate, deflect, ridicule and demonise them and label critics as traitors and doing the bidding of Putin and China
I was eligible for the draft in 1971. Nothing like being faced with being forced to entering into that hell. I received a high number but some friends got pulled in. That experience gave me a whole new understanding of how the military industrial complex is in control of the planet…
@@thebrowns5337 It’s *the Jews* You’re welcome. Remember, CEOs have names. Might as well NOT even comment with a useless ambiguous “Big Oil” / Big Brother / Illuminati comment.
The true heroes were those who refused to go and those who, although not drafted, refused to join this [adjective missing] war. Draft dodgers were the true patriots.
@richardlawson6787 And, don't forget WWII and defeating the NAZIS. What a waste of human lives, right? We should never have fought those misunderstood, falsely maligned NAZIS, right? It was all a bunch of lies by the Military Industrial Complex, right? All war is horrible, right? War is senseless, right? Why get involved? Let those Jews defend themselves, right? None of our business, right? When the leaders have to fight the wars instead of young men, then there'd be no wars, right? Hitler would have kicked the much older, frail, cripple, FDR's ass, and the war would be over. Yup, we'd have peace. NAZI peace. And, no Jews. And, no Blacks. But heck, we'd at least have no war, right? You'd be OK with that, right?
unfortunately it happened on US soil also. Read up on the Massacres of the Native people. I can still remember an article where soldiers were using babies as target practice.
My father was MEDVAC in Vietnam and returned home in 1966. My brother killed himself while he was in Vietnam (Heroine overdose). I joined the USMC after I graduated and learned very quickly, that if the Government said it did not happen, it did not happen (I would give specifics, however, no one would believe it). My mother never came to accept the death of her son. What a tragic conflict this was. The man that was mentioned "Vanardo Simpson" committed suicide years later after his son was killed by a stray bullet in Jackson, Mississippi.
Isn't it terrifying how similar the statement "If the Government said it did not happen, it did not happen" is in both the USA about Vietnam (or Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) to how the Russian Government and Putin try to 'announce' what is true or not about Ukraine today?
@@britishknightakaminininja1123 Don't you mean what the Media and Elites say happened? IF the Ukes were not getting hammered we would not be doing the Constant Murmansk Convoys to Uke land, along with other countries. Does anyone have any idea really how much equipment and cash have been laundered in the attempt to squash Putin. Like another Guy Rootin for Putin, we have more Marxists in the US, than Putin has left in the Russian Fed. Does anyone still posses INtegrity anymore?
During the Vietnam war the CIA they were smuggling "heroin" all kinds of opium's..Black hash with opium through it all paid for by American business men in the United States they were using "Air American Airlines" this is the biggest reason they were keeping troops out of Laos and Cambodia because the enemy and the CIA were working together both sides were making money off of drugs..More people died from heroin overdose in the United States then you could ever imagine,The war was completely over by 1975 Air American went out of business in 1976..That War had nothing to do with Communism it was all about Power Money and Drugs That's it...🤬
Many countries seem to try and 'forget' atrocities their own nation committed or were involved in throughout history. The unsung hero's were those who put themselves in a position to stop or try to stop such activities amongst their own forces. No conflict has ever avoided such crimes.
Who started the conflict? America has no business of being there. Now that you try to justify America actions... I curse you and your f@mily to hell...
Oh....I guess that makes everything just fine. Not to mention that they killed over a million civilians in bombing alone. But the U.S wants to judge others like they are God.
I was a infantry soldier in Vietnam in 1968 was a draftee my unit would never ever do anything like this I can’t even imagine why these soldiers did this yes it was frustrating when you lose your buddies to booby traps and mines but to take out a whole village was ridiculous…what these idiots did that day labeled all of us as baby killers and it wasn’t right…
Many of these villages supported our enemy. The had radios to contact our enemy, & give our troops location. The kids/women tried to kill you. No way of telling if a village was friend, or foe. 1 suspicious move could set our boys off. It's die. Or react.
They were told it was a vc village and ordered to kill them. 3/4 would not obey officers order. But several machine gun bursts finished them off in under a minute.
Americans still go these killings in Iraq in Afghanistan in Libya and Syria to name a few....they murderers and child killers...why do you people even attack and are in other peoples Country ...
I was a combat engineer near My Lai, Vietnam in 1970, 2 years after the massacre but just a few months after the news of My Lai became public. I was operating in the same Quang Nai province and even visited the (abandoned by then) My Lai village as part of a quick recon effort one afternoon. The Army had ordered US troops to avoid civilian casualties long before the My Lai incident became public in late 1969. Punishment, including court martial was ordered for abusing civilians. That was the policy before and after My Lai, though that was clearly a challenge to enforce everywhere all the time during a war as the massacre illustrates. There were a lot of casualties in that area due to land mines. My combat engineer platoon alone found at least one land mine every day while mine-sweeping a road just a few miles from My Lai - two years after the massacre. The VC were still actively burying mines at night. As we work in front of a computer every day now it’s difficult to imagine daily combat stress that comes from hearing of or seeing someone in your organization getting their legs blown off and wondering if you’re next. This would affect any young person, and the thin veneer of civility that a 19-20 year old arrives with in Vietnam can be stripped away fairly quickly. So, it’s the responsibility of the officers and NCOs to control that, and certainly not encourage it as Calley and Medina did. This massacre was a complete failure in command, primarily at the company level. Lt Calley and his company commander Cpt Medina were rightly held responsible, though the punishment was arguably too lenient.
Thank you for your service. I really am sorry so many went through this hell and were treated very unfairly when they got home. I was 10 in 1968 so I went to into my teens pretty oblivious.
Women have been trying to protect their babies from man and their frivolous wars since the dawn of time. Sad reality of the evil that infested this world.
War crimes against unharmed women and children including babies, should be treated as the worst type of crimes no matter the orders from superiors, for any country's soldiers, there is no valid reason or excuse that makes it right.
Yeah, sure bc you would have done differently. Those boys got sent to Vietnam most of them don't want to be there. They got drafted and sent to a country they don't care for it and a war that they don't believe in. We shouldn't be in that war. Blame the French 🇫🇷 It was the French who started that war. Not 🇺🇸.
This was, and all wars, are inexcusable massacres. This video is horrifically painful to watch. It hurts my heart so much. May all those harmed receive peace and healing. ❤
Wars are an extension of politicians' insane greed & vanity Small surprise so many backed the Monsters of Mi Lay or that Nixon, a perfidious man, pardoned the murderer Calley.
I teared up while watching the video and was left speechless with a sense of shock, disbelief and sadness. It is still barbaric but would make some sense to execute all the men. .. but to r~pe and kill women and children and hear some scream as they burn alive in their homes is a level of evil that we associate with Nazis during World War II. 😞😞😞😞
The other part of the story was in the Pentagon Papers, the secret history of the war that documents how the USA's top officials and military officers led the nation into the war based on lies and knew the war was both brutal and unwinnable, but escalated it, expanded it and continued it for years anyway, causing the tragic deaths of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians for no other reason than they did not want to be blamed for losing the war. These people, from Johnson and Nixon, were just as responsible for this shameful atrocity as the soldiers doing the actual killing. Perhaps even more responsible.
Same things they do in Ukraine. Recently they caught ukrainian in solovenia border selling children organ. Unfortunately in October Russians were unable to evacuate all the children in Ukraine which nazi took back. And how does satanic people make mockery out of it? Calling Russian as child kindappper. I live in India so my country unlike american s don't have censorship of news. I watch both russian and American news, and my God you people are just brainwashed like islamic terrorist
And as said by Russian colone who caught wind of this things, This is not some ukrainian criminal profiting from war, because plane that flew children organs and traffick children for Americans and Europeans elite pedos were given green light by both Ukranie and EU officials. That Russian colone in documentary at the end warn that after this war end they gonna hunt down and assasinate all who were responsible. This was in October
This war (the stories) have terrified me for my entire life. The atrocities that I had seen on the news, the veterans I have in my family, the thought of the draft and being forced against all of my beliefs to go and do these things or be part of jungle combat at all for a war we should have never been in for a country that does little to nothing for the majority of its citizens. It’s all horrible. I have respect for the veterans who served and believe that most served with honor, but the war and all it showed was terrible for everyone involved.
Totally agree! Any conscientious objectors were castigated yet that's what all people should do to make wars impossible to create. People have just bn cannon fodder over the centuries. Unfortunately before people realise they can refuse it will all be fought with drones and AI driven tools and even nuclear arms. If we haven't learnt in many thousands of years we will actually never learn. So the biggest armies will dominate jn more and more forceful ways until our inevitable destruction. Not fear mongering here just historical facts and current situation globally.
Nothing has changed, we see the torture, rape, and murder done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay to innocent people, those responsible at the top were never held accountable. I am an American Iraq war veteran, and was married to an Iraq war veteran who saw exactly what went on. My dad, uncle and cousin were Vietnam war veterans; most wars should never have happened, few wars are necessary.
100% sure some never get out. Truth always come out is just myth. If there is no proof all document destroyed. No one admitting till they die. Than the truth is buried.
Eventually? We've known about My Lai since shortly after it happened. I knew about it -- as did the press -- within a few weeks WHILE I WAS SERVING IN VIETNAM. It was never a "secret."
The Vietnam War isnt just a stain on American history, it is also a major stain on Canadian history. Canada was part of the International Control Commission (ICC) and was to oversee that the Geneva Agreements were followed. We were suppose to neutral, but we turned a blind eye to many atrocities and the negotiations were on the American side. A lot of the weapons used were manufactured in Canada, such as the napalm bombs. Even the Agent Orange that was used, was tested in Canada first. The U.S hid a lot of things, but only because they knew Canada allowed it to happen and wouldnt do anything about it. On the international stage, Canada was opposed to the war, but behind closed doors, Canada made billions in profits supplying weapons and raw materials to help the U.S war machine. The Vietnam War was not one of Canada's finest moments in History.
The N.Vietnamese were no saints. I wouldn't say it is a "stain". Someone had to step in to stop the commies. Read about vietnamese atrocities and how they threatened and used civilians.
I had family that served in Vietnam, and none of them ever wanted to talk about what happened over there. It's scary what people will do when a Higher Up orders it.
I'm all about accountability but I don't see any "shifting blame" here. Like most Americans, especially military, his family members were trained to follow orders. Thats what you do. They were likely ashamed and traumatized from what they were ordered to do. In their case, they had no choice but to follow orders to survive.
@@aboomalacani2732BS. Only if you're dog or USA soldier you folow all orders, right? They were invaders in independent country, killers and monsters...ALL of them were scum and killers, part of evil force. C'mon, millions died because of USA occuoants but you still have excuse. They did it many times in All parts of the world. Even today.
after all the atrocities America had done to the Vietnamese people, to this day they still welcome them to their country with open arms. they are the most caring and loving people i have met.
@fermatichebellosei1595 you gathered that out of what I said about moving on with life?? Did I say anything about Judicial systems? You think we don’t have anger and resentment from what happened? So everyone should just give up on life and be angry forever and waste every minute replaying what happened right? The strength to move on is a warrior not like a little B to keep re-hashing and demand a whole month out of the year to dedicate to bad historical times. The comment was welcoming Americans. Not every American caused those atrocities, so seeking revenge on a group as a whole doesn’t justify. Reference exactly where I said no prisons or let rapists roam. I’m Canadian. Our catch and release judicial system is disgusting.
I visited the War Remnants museum yesterday in HCMC. Some of the stuff about Agent Orange was absolutely horrific and genuinely hit me. Never had that happen to me before at a museum. We only really get the USA perspective of the war in the UK so it really was shocking to see some of the atrocities that the USA committed
Let me get this straight. From what you just said, it "shocked" you to see "some" of the atrocities the US committed, only when you visited the museum yesterday? So the 20+ years of the war against Afghanistan and Iran, falsely claiming they have WMD; Over a million civilian casualties from that war; The footage of the US military mercilessly killing unidentified innocent people like a video game, leaked by Julian Assange who is now under confinement because of "national security"; Also wanted for "national security", Edward Snowden who was the whistle blower against the NSA's global surveillance programs, and their privacy infringing ethics; The US dollar hegemony they setup post WW2 to stay in power, bullying their way through 3rd world countries, taking their resources and "lend" them money with 30% interest rates; Demonizing China while American corporations took advantage of their cheap labour and gigantic work force, so they make astronomical profits; The continuous meddling of politics on every continent on Earth in the name of "freedom", while accusing others are meddling in theirs; I can go on, but I'll stop here. The USA has been doing everything they accuse other countries are doing since forever. And you are "shocked" only just yesterday by visiting a museum that couldn't show you the worst of the worst. The rock you live under must be ginormous.
@@DubboU you left out all the genetic repercussions of agent orange. My father was in a agent orange storage facility got out of the marines and conseved me 3 weeks later. Was born with no tear duct. Scoliosis upper back. Weak wrist and ankles. Only son died in 5 weeks after birth .other health problems to. Gov don't want to pay for that. Gee live ing the American dream 😇
@@DubboU damn dude chill. I know about pretty much everything you just said. I didn’t know about agent orange however. Seeing photos of deformed children in that museum, some with descriptions of how mothers abandoned their babies because of how they looked on the streets, yeah, believe it or not that was pretty emotional to learn about.
@@c.l.visions2581 I'm chill. Just that knowing the facts, it's hard not to type all that stuff out in reaction to the way you worded your sentence. I have not visited the museum. I can only imagine how you must have felt. Hope you shake it off.
And you ignore the atrocities committed by the Vietcong and their supporters. There were few totally innocent people in many villages, and while that does not justify these incidents, it certainly provided the catalyst when the US GOVERNMENT sent the troops in with warped goals and standards for waging the war. The American people were mostly unaware of a lot of the political workings that led us into the Vietnam war and made it's battles into total failures or criminal outcomes. And then to top it off as the public became aware they began treating the line soldiers like garbage. It was a very low spot in our history but it was NOT a result of atrocities conducted just by the US.
Hard to do when it's half of your country. Reconstruction should have never stopped and voting rights should have been removed from southern states for decades, until they realized their mistakes and crimes against humanity.
As a 30 year veteran having served in combat for 48 months, these types of actions (smaller) remain fairly common. Teams, Squads, Platoons, Companies, Battalions, Brigades, Divisions, and the DOD leadership have become EXPERTS downplaying or covering up atrocities committed due to orders given from Higher. Whistle blowers are censored and shunned, and their Special Action pseudo Investigations are predetermined through painted rosy outcomes. Loyalty??
When you send young guys into combat what kind of result do you expect other than death and destruction? l laugh at the "RULES OF WAR" as being ridiculous.
I believe you, I served in the us army. Punish the politicians for sending the troops to Vietnam. Just before JFK was killed,JFK was planning on totally removing all American troops from Vietnam by Xmas 1965
An unfortunate result of bad leadership. Retired Marine Colonel Andrew Millburn has talked extensively about his time commanding young Marines, in the Middle East and around the world. He stated that after Marines were killed, he always had a talk about how important it was for them to uphold the values that we fight for and not go after bloodlust, or brutal revenge. Great officers and leaders can make all the difference in the world. That being said…Soldiers, Marines, Airmen and Seamen didn’t deserve the horrible treatment they received, when they returned from Vietnam. Excellent video, well done sir.
Yes indeed. Sent to war then abused on return. BTW, I was there. Only the Left threw pig`s blood and cried out "baby killers". Socialists ought to talk!
@@tastelesstube Because it was in the best interests of the North Vietnamese to never tell the truth. The massacres they inflicted on the South Vietnamese civilians, after the coward US politicians that pulled a successful US military our of the war, tells all the truth necessary. Unless you think it was fine and dandy for the North Vietnamese to genocide 25% of the population of Vietnam and Cambodia, of course. Lots of leftists in these comments seem to be good with it.
My father was in this war also 82nd airborne infantry division. I’m so sorry about what happened to all the people that were killed for nothing. Muhammad Ali was 100% right.
I'm glad you acknowledge your father's horrific conduct of his division. I read too many comments of individuals that are trying to rationalize and in some cases justify these soldiers' actions. Furthermore, I commend you for your honesty. Wish more people could do what you did in the comment section.
As a combat veteran of Viet Nam (173rd ABN 1967-68)) I can’t say I neither condone nor disagree with lots of things I saw and did. Our miserable politicians are responsible because they sent us 18, 19, 20 year old kids into a mess the common man cannot begin to comprehend. Orders came from the top and they were brutal, so many young men just followed what they were told to do, a few managed to avoid these atrocities by faking participation and other excuses. War is a nasty business conducted by non participants.
Makes you wonder if there was a more nefarious purpose to those orders. To weaken morale for USA by commanding boys to commit atrocities, then have Walter Cronkite, a communist, plaster it on the news.
Stop blaming politicians for your own actions, I don’t care if you were 19 or 20, even if you were 17 you can’t tell me that you never knew that it was a crime to kill unarmed civilians that posed no threat to you, I pray karma catches up with you one day for your actions!
oh listen they are not there for a school boy lesson, they knew more about fighting gurilla style then the american troops ever had, that is why there was so many atrocities. the tunnels, the children, the mines, not knowing who the enemy was.
Such bravery displayed by the soldiers who killed children, women and seniors. Good little soldiers following the orders of their sadistic leaders over a war that does not concern them in the slightest. I applaud those who opposed these orders and saved civilians, as well as those who reported on the massacre.
One of my best friend moved here on what was called a boat. She’s told me that even today the Agent Orange we sprinkled all over the ground is causing birth defects, babies with no fingers, misshaped head and others. All for a war America forgot.
Also the war they lost. One of so many . The most incomptent leafers and fighting force on the planet. A corrupt govt that makes billions from conflicts they start all around the world . The war in ukraine a perfect example. Start them ,then walk away.
how do you know they are unarmed that was a big problem in Viet Nam, small children carrying baskets would approach for candy, toss a grenade and run. It wasn't quite as easy as two sides lined up along a line fighting, this was gurilla warfare.
"Tragedy" is not the right word. And it is the same word that is being used regarding civilian deaths in Gaza. It is not a tragedy, it is homicidal violence, genocidal violence. Or if not, we have to stop going around calling people "communists" and "terrorists" because we are practicing a Double Standard.
My brother fought in Vietnam and he returned home a different person, addicted to the drugs he used there to cope with the tragedies. He died years later from depression (not suicide).
During the Vietnam war from 1966 to 1969, the armed forces of United States supplied to their servimen 225 million tablets of stimulants, mostly Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine), an amphetamine derivative that is nearly twice as strong as the Benzedrine used in the Second World War. The American military readily supplied its troops in Vietnam with speed. “Pep pills” were usually distributed to men leaving for long-range reconnaissance missions and ambushes. A U.S navy commando said that the drugs “gave you a sense of bravado as well as keeping you awake. Every sight and sound was heightened. You were wired into it all and at times you felt really invulnerable.” Soldiers in units infiltrating Laos for a four-day mission received a medical kit that contained, among other items, 12 tablets of Darvon (a mild painkiller), 24 tablets of codeine (an opioid analgesic), and six pills of Dexedrine. Before leaving for a long and demanding expedition, members of special units were also administered steroid injections. In short, the administration of stimulants by the military contributed to the spread of drug habits that sometimes had tragic consequences-because amphetamine, as many veterans claimed, increased aggression as well as alertness. Some remembered that when the effect of speed faded away, they were so irritated that they felt like shooting “children in the streets.” Vietnam was “the first war in which the forces of modern pharmacology were directed to empower the battlefield soldier.”
A war crime is so disgusting how can they justify what they done the big mobs should be held responsible for these war crimes shame shame America 😡😡😡😡😡😡
This video is a reupload, as we had to slightly modify the visuals due to it being flagged by TH-cam's algorithm.
😂lol they don't want u to upload the truth
It's sad. I feel it is necessary to understand the atrocities properly. Like just slap a warning/disclaimer on it or something
If the Vietnam was was going bad for the American's in 1968, then please tell me why the Vietnamese sued for peace in that year??
@@princeminatoyou don’t know the truth!
I can't like a video that censors the word RAPE!!! Why are you hiding the word??
So the channel gets paid off the story of deaths?? 🤔
No matter what the flag is... America, England, Japan, Somalia, India, Afghanistan, France, Russia, China, Israel, Germany, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Pakistan, Rawanda, Egypt, Uganda, Equator, Iraq, Vietnam, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Korea... Crime is still crime no matter what side you're on. Terrible.
Amen
This is bullshit. Lies
We aren't even supposed to be killing each other. But hey!! If it is for "fReEdOm"
🥴 Durrrrrr!!
Evil and sin has no skin color, uniform or gender and arises anywhere at anytime and gives birth to itself to use the words of Jesus, then when it conceives it gives birth to death…..
War is hell, you did not know who the enemy was, there were many VC women who mingles with the citizens and who would kill you in a moment. This in my opinion was a political money making war for the elites. It seemed lines were drawn on where you could not go to do the most damage, civilians and soldiers died that is war.
I am Hmong, my grandparents and great uncles all fought in this war. I am an orphan of this war, as so is many many of my people. I’m not glad this happened, but it must be remembered so it never happens again. In war, no one is a winner. Everyone is a loser. We all lost someone dear to us. World peace please✌️
Tell that to Putin
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@claudiomutasa4178 tell it to Biden and all the idiots who voted for him! Trump was the first president since Carter to not start a war
@@claudiomutasa4178 tell that to US
@@claudiomutasa4178 Hoa Kỳ đã đẩy Ukraine vào chiến tranh. Và nhìn vào những gì mà chính phủ Hoa Kỳ đã làm cho những đất nước đang bị quân đội Mỹ chiếm đóng.
My son was an Army Ranger in Iraq. He told me his platoon was patrolling at night and came up on a small farmhouse. The father came out with a gun. The soldiers shot him. His son, approximately 10 yo, ran out screaming and picked up the gun. They shot him, too. A woman came out and quietly dragged the boy into the house, then the man. It shook my son up. He said any man would do what that man did. Any son would do what that boy did. He saw himself, our own family, in that family with a bunch of armed foreigners approaching our little farmhouse at night. The platoon picked up the gun and took it with them, a single shot 410, not much of a gun, just a poor farmer in his own home trying to defend his family at night. War is simply a game to the rich and powerful. Common people suffer. In Orwell's Animal Farm, the politicians are the pigs. The soldiers are the vicious dogs. The sheep chant and the workhorses try to hold it all together by working harder. In the end, they are betrayed. Nothing has changed. Power corrupts absolutely. 😢
Where ever US military goes, civilians are killed...fact
Your son was nothing but a mercenary for the central bankers who rule by fear, oppression, and control. I hope he realizes that now. He is no hero and neither are any of his brothers in arms.
I hope your son gets therapy so he can process what he experienced.
And your son still continues! What goes around, comes around.
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"I was only following orders." How many more times in history will we hear those infamous words?
What would you do? Obey orders or risk being shot?
@@colindant3410 Murder is not a lawful order.
Till the end of time . War will never stop
@@colindant3410it's easy for him to say that from the comfort of his home... When ur in the war it's kill or be killed
@CanadianSmoke as President Johnson escalated the Vietnam War the US focused on a target draft age, 19 years old. The military understood then that the 19 year old mind would be the easiest to train without question. And bet your a$$ they were trained as quick reacting killing machines! After the young troops were 1st deployed and saw Viet Cong atrocities being done to South Vietnamese troops and civilians. The young American soldiers focus was crystal clear kill the Cong and obey orders otherwise you'll be killed? It's hard to believe let alone understand unless you were in their situation?
As an American, every single American should be taught about these and other war crimes. Only by knowing our bloody history can we hope to avoid future atrocities
I think that the current American Education system is still struggling with the myriad of colors in their flags.
only our war crimes? Every country commits war crimes.We aren't better than other countries when it comes to war. And they definitely aren't better than us.
I meant *online* majority by the way
You guys should also be ashamed... 49% thought the news was fake and 74% were against the judgement... you guys are f*cked up
They won't listen....
I was adopted by my grandpa-he fought in Vietnam (drafted 1965) Da Nang, tank operator.
He told me some of those men lost their minds and humanity in the jungle.
The man who shot himself in the foot isn’t a coward. With all the war crimes being committed that day, I imagine they would’ve shot him too, had he resisted, and would’ve chalked it up to VC resistance. He’s not a coward he was smart, there are no rules with mindless men-there are no rules if war crimes are being committed-
My grandpa told me, “Heroes don’t come back. Be smart, dont be a hero.”
My Dad was there and it turned him into a beast.When he got back to the states he got off the drugs and told some stories I never thought he was capable of. He an awesome person war just changes people.Sometimes I wonder how many siblings I have in the area
@@MuchoNoBueno I wish your father and soldiers like him pay for their crimes. The Women, children, and the elderly had suffered as a result of your father's actions along with his compatriots. The last image they saw and felt, it was of your father and his soldiers. Unfortunately, those innocent children will never receive the opportunity to become adults and have a family. But your father had the opportunity to have a family, didn't he? I'm happy your father dealt with his drug addiction, but it doesn't change anything, does it? This whole world makes me depressed. I hate it.
Oh they didn't loose their humanity, oh no, they only showed what they really are and what they would do with no one to stop them. Cunts.
@@robdi4585oh my god man... after I read your comment I felt my heart's gone wild. Such a raw tough truth, it hurts. This world is a mess. It left me disappointed and lost. Violence always owned it...
@@robdi4585 I can give you my address, my Dad did his job. You don’t know my Dad but you can know me.
My husband is a Vietnam disabled veteran and the night terrors that he still has to this day and the memories that he discusses with me still hit him to his core and it's a shame that he left from fighting for the US. Only to come back to the States and be discriminated against racially profiled by the race cops That was supposed to be police officers here in the states it's also a shame that our veterans that served in this war have to fight hard to obtain their benefits owed to them by the VA you're not told about most benefits unless it's by Word of Mouth from other veterans because our government and the VA system would rather have you die before they pay you what they really owe you!
Did he tell you about controversial things during his time there may i ask if you don't mind?
veterans don't have trouble in the us getting benefits if they make an appointment and go in, they must be informed. He is not alone
@@LHLK-q2v ok, so what about all the homeless and suicidal?
@@grandcanyon-d4d this isn't the only situation that has produced such
Slowly they are getting some benefits. Originally it was never a declared war so VA said no benefits.
As a high-school student at the time. I remember the protests. My brother was sent to Nam. He committed suicide at 41 because of ptsd and exposure to agent orange.
Hope you are well God loves you deeply shalom 🤗🐼♥️✝️💐 Philippians 4:8
My late ex-brother-in-law also served in Vietnam and had PTSD and later died due to agent orange.
I had 5 brothers three went to the Military two to Vietnam and one to Germany . The brother that went to Germany was 4 and 5 years older than the two who went to Vietnam , both brothers had some injuries While in Vietnam but came home whole , then they got to the age of 50 years old and here comes the damage done by the orange both died losing legs one lost his sight and legs . One lasted to age 65 the other died at 59 - the older brother who went to Germany is now 80 years old and doing well , We know its the orange because it hits around 50 years or so and they all have mostly the same symptoms. The republicans kept shutting down bills to help the veterans , yet veterans keep voting for republicans ???? i can not wrap my head around that.
Thank you for posting this. My heart goes to those poor townspeople.
Shocked to know every time innocent people are crushes down in such atrocity.
In india also we have noticed such brutality many times now due to TH-cam otherwise it all was disappeared in main stream media.
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We humans are a savage and violent species...the horrors we inflict on each other is right out of nightmares.
AGREED.And you wonder why any-SANE-aliens would want to invade earth.
Why dont you say americans did war crimes than any other country
U mean" americans"?
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Nonhumans can be jerks too
Most frightening sentence " we're American, here to bring you freedom and democracy "
Shut up dude, victim mentality is weak
"Timeo danaos et donna ferentes" ~Virgil
Yes. I'm sure the French said this over and over in WW2.
@@curtanschuetz3434 This is not about WW2.
And now they're fucking up their own democracy...go figure!!
the photographer and the helicopter crew that tried to help are all heroes
Yes. Sadly, they were the only ones.
Not sure, if you have watched this interview yet, but it might be interesting if you haven't. It seems that the photographer held all really incriminating photos back until the last moment.
Hugh Thompson Jr and his crew are probably some of the very few American soldiers that came out of this war as real heroes. Thompson was ostracised and threatened with court martial before he was finally honoured for his actions that day.
Look at CCP, North Korea and Russia today, if the history has a retrial, the old Vietnam war isn’t such a mistake to take place and be so cruel! For communism is corrupt and ugly! Enough ghost homes in China to house the Palestinians today! What communism you asked! The CCP couldn’t even speak their own langue of Chinese and yet are in the UN and world court! 共产主义 ?
Look at CCP, North Korea and Russia today, if the history has a retrial, the old Vietnam war isn’t such a mistake to take place and be so cruel! For communism is corrupt and ugly! Enough ghost homes in China to house the Palestinians today! What communism you asked! The CCP couldn’t even speak their own langue of Chinese and yet are in the UN and world court! 共产主义 ?
Now look at Russia, the most intellectual cyber hackers and decryptions in the world, and so Putin is a joke to not knowing what 共产主义 is ! Does it has a soul? Is it a joke?
I was just a baby so I never personally watched the news as it was happening. But as I grew up, the Vietnam War was spoken of in whispers. And any questions I asked were met with a profound silence. I knew it was bad, but didn’t know why or how. Thank you for taking time to keep awareness alive
@@bbmtge what a strange thing to say.
@@bbmtge Where is the lie? I am a Vietnam combat vet, 67-68. So run your mouth about ‘the lie’ with me! Because most Americans only know a minimal amount about Nam, the conflict and least of all the history of the Vietnamese. If you did, you’d not make ignorant pronouncements. My Lai was real. The massacre was real. And Lt. Calley getting off lightly was real! So where is the lie????
I remember it vividly! The US should have done way more!
@@thomaslynch3688thank you for your service & your words. My son's Dad served two tours & rarely spoke of his time in country.
America can use bombs including chemical weapons and nuclear bombs on a civilian population filled with children and nothing will ever happen, why because America is the most powerful country in the world, they love to place the narrative that everyone else is evil, we can use these terrible weapons, but if any other country even conceives of doing the same thing then they are evil.
A massive war crime like that can NEVER be justified. I'm deeply ashamed of this . The men that did that were no better than any Nazis.
@@watkinsinc.7147Mercy????????
@@MM-be5le What?
@@watkinsinc.7147Mercy is raping women and murdering then along with children???
@@MM-be5le Who is telling the story? Have you ever been to war?
The only excuse (not reason) is PTSD but that doesn’t fly here.
In addition to being murder, intentionally targeting civilians will make other civilians more likely to support the enemy. In the case of WW2 it was partisans. Here it was the VC. My Lai may have killed 4 VC but led to the recruiting of thousands more.
The Art of War says to respect those you capture. That way you may have a friend for later. Likely the VC attacks preceding My Lai were by those resisting the same mistreatment that happened at My Lai. The entire war was a mistake of execution. With events like My Lai there’d be no way to win over the civilians to show them that the soldiers had their best interests at heart.
Mercy… there’s no mercy in murder, not even for those committing it.
"Has the U.S. government and military learned and lessons ? "
Ask Julian Assenge. Still held in Belmarsh prison without charge.
Assange published the names and addresses of soldiers homes while they were in battle. A treasonous crime deserving a capital sentence. He`s lucky to be alive.
No the US MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX will do what ever they want to do regards of the Backlash .
Julian is free at last what a great man.
No us navy 60 years of pain so far😢
@@NormGilmore-gr4et😢
the problem is not a group of people commit war crimes during wars, the problem is when war criminals rule a nation!
..they rule this nation.... we honor military more than anything else, and you know it
@sam70000. Friend, the entire issue relates to the human psyche and is actually very sad, but interesting. History shows numerous cases of young joining military forces. In many cases comments made in hindsight when atrocities or coldblooded murder happened was to the tune of "he was so gentle / unassuming / not violent" etc. Numerous factors are at play such as the military training received and that "an order is an order", weak / dominant personalities in a group scenario, peer pressure, stress and other factors. Weird, but true.
@@B_Don123 I will tell you. The greedy in the shadows sending young men to their deaths. All they have to do is use the word "patriot" and off they go. No thinking required. At all.
@@martinbisschoff988 What are you trying to say?
The fact that YOUR "mind" is there. To be used / abused. Up to each of us to have the courage to decide. To what extent.
"Just following orders"....great atrocities are committed with that excuse....
Did you fight in a war?? Of course not, that’s why you have no problem passing judgement. You are living in a fools paradise
The nazis were just following orders too
yeah, and the winners never pay the bill or admit it.
I remember reading articles back in the 80's about the atrocities done during the Vietnam War and it made me physically sick! That was one BRUTAL WAR!
The problem with that, is only 1% of actual happenings. They would never dare to release what they did to the women, female children especially.
When I was adopted I was deathly afraid of dogs. The Soldiers would capture and torture dogs and then release the dogs to take care of the kids or slow people.
You can't really say US soldiers either. That's where things get messed up. Australia, Canada, England etc also had troops over there.
"Vietnamese all look alike. You cannot tell who is who. Just shoot and let God sort them out" (The claims of figuring out who is VC and is not.)
I remember at a reunion the soldiers crying over this.
When you think about what they had to decide. Can you imagine if US or Canada went to war and the Americans came into Canada and told don't shoot the American civilians.
How would they know who is who.? Like the civilians shouting "i'm not VC"....civilians shouting "I'm not Canadian"
Shoot first and ask questions later.
They are all brutal brother. This one just had the Press
Fyi : Vietnamese didnt feel like that with russia/putin now . We proud of hero lmao
Brutal and completely unnecessary. So many lives lost.
One of the many committed by the US, and yet they are the so-called defenders of freedom and justice around the world??!!
This is absolutely horrifying and so terribly sad 😭
I remember news coverage of My Lai when I was 11 years old. Even though I was a child, and obviously apolitical, that incident forever changed my view of the U.S. military and the meaning of patriotism. It also made me profoundly cynical about all warfare.
You wouldn't be enjoying all the things if not for the military. I dare you giving up your things for some unrelenting people. Even now your big corps exploit ppl around the world
I remember it too. As a child, this horrified me.
We would be about the same age. What I've never forgotten was daily body counts on the news, proven to be falsified as the truth came out.
The viet cong committed MANY WAR crimes during the Vietnam war and the media rarely reported on that
😂 it really is sad my brother was in that war and he said that the Vietnamese would put hand grenades on the women and children to try to kill the Americans so they had to do something they didn't really want to kill them but they had to they had no other choice and that's why they were smoking weed so that it would smear their memory
As a Vietnam combat medic who was in Nam when the My Lai massacre occurred (but I never heard about it until I came home in Dec. 68), I found the actions of Lt. Calley and others to be inexcusable. The lives of innocent Vietnamese cannot be less precious than the lives of Americans. We were in their country and it reflects poorly on our country when we devalue their lives. Calley was a lying murderous coward and he not only should not have been pardoned, he should have been executed for what he did. My job as a medic was to care for the sick and wounded...and I did that for friend and enemy alike. Some of my fellow soldiers weren't crazy about that but I didn't care as I had to answer for my own actions and choices. Besides I was a Black American soldier who experienced the cruelty of White supremacy in my home country. The Vietnamese were still people in my eyes and many of their soldiers were 'drafted' just like me.
And by the way, Calley and Medina's orders were illegal...the soldiers under them had every right to refuse to obey! If they were court-martialed, they probably would have been found not guilty and Calley and Medina would have been court-martialed.
They were raping little girls in the villages as young as 10yrs old. Smdh
Thank you for your service!
Normally Calley and Medina must sit on electric chair, but 230 Volt with wet connections, so long as it needs that they die.
Cảm ơn vì bạn đã hiểu . Lời chào đến từ VN
Thanks for shareing your story . And thank you for your service .
The USA also did and do that in other countries : but they are untouchable - no American may be charged in Den Haag - this says all !
That's how the U.S. makes their money. Finance the Arms Industry, then find somewhere -- it matters not where that might be -- to unleash it.
@@thorn262 A german Comedian said : " they are like glaziers who smash the panes at night and then offer to help the next day "
@@Taiyou536 you sure that German "comedian" had room to talk? Did he forget about the camps and the ovens?
@@foggy561
Whataboutism is a poor comeback in any argument but lets give it a try.
What about all the rape charges against US servicemen stationed in Okinawa Japan.
A gang rape of a 12 year old girl in 1995 by 3 American servicemen pedophiles
and the 69 cases of rape since 2015.
What about those..
@@foggy561 Taiyou said "a German comedian", NOT a Nazi armed forces member.
This becomes more despicable when you realize what was actually done to the women and children there. Calling it a war crime is putting it mildly. It was an act of pure evil. The fact we tried to hide it and downplay it is disgraceful to our country.
I am Hmong, while while I was too young to experience the horrific of this war, I end up grown up here in the US know my family had lost everything.
Your hero is my enemy and my hero is your enemy. No one wins except a few corrupt politicians and corporations that gain unimaginable wealth form all the suffering.
The Hmong are great people.
I heard that hmong are the descendants of Chiyou, your ancestors were defeated by our ancestors, so your ancestors went to Vietnam?
My condolences to you and your family for your losses. The philosophy of this government for hundreds of years has been “Might is Right” but this government and this country called America will fall like all the others have in by gone days.
The Vietnam War was hated by many Americans, especially young people. They thought it was all about old men getting money from seller my tanks and weapons. They especially hated Richard Nixon, the president.
They wanted peace.
Yes. It's always about the greed of a handful of elites.
As a German I always say, that no Nation can affort pointing the finger at anybody. There are dark spots in every nations history.
Talk about yourself.
As a German, you might know that Hitler obtained the vast majority of his ideas from careful study of American history; shheeiit, as much as he tried to duplicate the evils of American slavery, he STILL couldn't come close to the level of brutality in what we now know as the holocaust....
Even his "Nuremberg racial purity laws" read absolutely verbatim to the "Black Codes" during the formal period of slavery in the USA!
That is not true at all, there are plenty of countries that haven't done anything like what your kind did
@@Harry11enderson my kind? It's correct some nations didn't do anything too bad but those also never played a big role in history.
@@Harry11endersonWhat kind are you ? Tell me your kind and I will tell you your crime .
What distinguishes the My Lai massacre is that there was one courageous photographer who brought this atrocity to light despite strenuous efforts of the US government to suppress the publication of the photographs and many death threats. Once published, the government had no choice but to conduct an "investigation" and conduct some mock "court martials". Despite the abundance of evidence and confessions of the criminals involved, only one man, platoon leader First Lt. William Calley, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. The rest of the murderers were all declared "not-guilty". His sentence, however, was promptly commuted to three years of house arrest during which time Calley attended university courses and received regular visits by his girl friend. He was finally pardoned (by stupid Jimmy Carter). His immediate superior, Captain Ernest Medina was cashiered out of the US Army and was promptly hired by helicopter manufacturer Enstrom Helicopter Corporation, owned by (infamous lawyer) F. Lee Bailey. That the murderers descended upon the villagers from helicopters may have something to do with the reward. There were other such massacres that were never published.
Before it became known to the public, it was hidden by the commanders and reported as an "accomplishment" to destroy the VC.
Can’t pardon them from gods wrath. May they burn in hell for thier atrocities towards mankind
For sure, Republicans/conservatives would do anything to bury atrocities by our military, they did a lot of that recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hundreds of cases that will never see the light of day. Just as truth is not truth to Republicans, evil is not evil.
Yes, when the Koreans entered into the war in My Lai. They showed what atrocious monsters they are. They took little children & babies from their mothers, and threw them into a big fire. The mothers were shot & killed first. I'm sure some mother's witnessed their babies tossed into the fire. This is unforgivable cruelty that I can't call them human. Now after watching this, I heard the US soldiers decapitated babies. This makes them despicable monsters. Never mind you evil murderers. God saw each of you and you will be judged & punished accordingly. Many of these beasts have died already. Good riddance!
A lot of similarities with desert storm as well. Women and children were killed senseless, women were raped, homes were burnt down. This comes to mind when I see homeless veterans begging on a corner. I see karma.
I was 8 years old when this happened but it was part of our household considering we had family members in Vietnam fighting at the time
My mom refuses to talk about the war. Now I know why and this is heartbreaking.
American government is still lying to its people; it is time for american civilians to wake up to the reality.
The captain should feel lucky that I wasn't alive and in his unit at the time because I would execute him without a second thought😅
Yes! Grandfather's in hardly every spoke again of the wars😢
Get her to talk. By any means
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As a Vietnamese with the great patriotism, I definitely thank you for speaking the hidden truth to the world out there, where people are still ignorant of how war crime was conducted by American military. I also subscribed your channel and hit the bell as well as liked the video as a way of saying thanks to you. Keep up your work, bro. God bless you
The VC are guilty of committing many war crimes in Vietnam during the Vietnam war, do your homework junior
@@ThomasG.-hh9gg it's a shame to acclaim yourself a hero for killing innocent people before the eyes of those who don't know. Stop messing with others, harming them then calling it legitimate. In fact, there should have been more basic history homework for you instead of jerking people around
Some of our troops came across our captured troops in the jungle tortured to death . They were not the least bit happy and became vigilantes , rightfully so !
Вьетнам Хо-Ши-Мин, Вьетнам Хо-Ши-Мин! Героическому Вьетнамскому народу Слава во веки! С уважением, от СССР и его людей...
@@STALIN-GRAD Всегда будем хорошими братьями
Im Filipino 🇵🇭 and i feel sorry for my Vietnam brothers that this happened to them.
Happened in your country too buddy. Spanish-American War. US troops murdered a million Filipinos.
Its baffaling to see Phillipines now hosting US bases designed to kill civilians in a future war in the Pacific-the same people who were killed over and over again by the US and the Japs. Are some nations just clinically forgetful?
@@bernarddavis1050 mismo.
Bully talga to US kht ngyon binisto tlga cla ni FPRRD .
true, let's try to improve and atone for mistakes.But note Philippines was used as staging ground by the US and Phil forces were used as support , tho not in the asssaults
It’s crazy to think that the government could have covered up so many bad things but we would have absolutely no idea about it
and it does makes you think what else has also been covered up to this very day ?
Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew are the real American heroes of this terrible massacre. These men were better soldiers and honorable people than the brothers in arms they served with.
A drowning man will clutch at straws.
I heard that it was difficult for them to tell who were civilians and who were Viet Cong and
that the Viet Cong hid in the villages with the civilians. I suppose this made the soldiers
very nervous and as a consequence trigger happy. Nevertheless it was an evil thing they
did.
I was permitted to work for many years of my life under the greatest son whom my people has brought forth in its five thousand-year history. Even if I could, I would not want to erase this period of time from my existence. I am happy to know that I have done my duty as a Vietnamese, as a National Socialist, as a loyal follower of Ho Chi Minh. I do not regret anything. If I were to begin all over again, I would act just as I have acted, even if I knew that in the end I should meet a fiery death at the stake.
But that's horrific moments always haunting rest of his life moreover for those psychopathic murders.
@@gailcrowe727so those kids and babies were vietcong in hiding?
This horrible war marked the awakening of my awareness of the evils of humans towards each other. I learned not to trust my government blindly. What happened was inexcusable. Being very young at the time, l was shocked at the atrocities committed by the U.S. government. This has remained with me until today.
Any man gets turned to this when the enemy kills all your friends. You turn into a savage and take the opportunity to take their families. War is brutal and unnecessary.
Us people are US army. US govt. and the US army is made of of US people. All involved USA citizens are terrorists and will go to hell for the crimes they've committed.
There’s a book called “war is a racket” written by retired MARINE GENERAL Smedley butler.I have tremendous respect for this man. When I was in the army I knew soldiers that would question authority. Thomas Jefferson said that dissension is patriotic. QUESTION YOUR LEADERS!!!!!!
The Vietnam war was a very brutal war and only those that were in that war can pass judgment on those soldiers that were at my lay. I am grateful that I was not subjected to those conditions and you should be grateful also. What would you have done if you were subjected to the same circumstances???
It's a good movie but what about what the government did to the soldiers and what about what the American people did to the soldiers I don't blame them at all guess I'm just to close and know too much my father was their you want the whole story go to a Va nursing home before they are all gone they will talk you just have to have the patience and time which none of you have have a good day
This is no secret, it's been talked about for decades.
As a military cadet in late 70s & early 80s this was taught as an object lesson on the necessity of refusing illegal orders and the importance of understanding what constitutes a war crime.
Not talked about enough. I noticed nothing was talked about after the war, you know how I know? Recent generations glamorize it thanks to movies.
Exactly, I think the people that are appalled by this aren’t aware that there has not been a war where actions like this and worse is almost a common scenario.
@@kevinbergeman4069 Well things got pretty "SOFTIE" after we left Vietnam. I hear it's gotten so soft, that if you feel someone is too hard on you, you have a little ticket to present to tell them to stop ! I can see it now... present your enemy with a little ticket to tell them to "STOP"
@@sgtpepper4971Lmao that's so cringe when it comes to Germany or Japan then it matters but when it's you it's just normal in war pethetic excuse
After all these decades, it is still sickening.
I am indian and have great respect for Vietnamese people...we remember and mention you as the strong headed people who gave tough time to Americans.......
I worked for a company that hired alot of Vietnamese people. I grew to value these people as friends not just co workers. They shared and taught and united to be a force within the company.
I would negotiate contract terms differently but still enjoyed working beside them.
Most people don't know that India built it's nukes because US sent nuclear submarines to nuke India in 1971.
The pak atrocities of that 71war is also present on this channel.
The VC was supported by US Politicians. The military could have ended the war but the politicians would not let them go on offense and win.
That's a warcrime and should be treated as one. Leaders and soldiers involved should be publicly disgraced and have any honours stripped
Completely agree these so call Americans soldiers are a disgrace to the Army and to the people of the United states 🇺🇸. Take away their medals
Easy to say if you've never been there .
It's easy to say whatever side your on, this was a disgusting act carried out by the men of honour and freedom. The us is just as self serving as any other country that we are told Re the bad guys
@@terrybarker9694yea yea we know you lick boots
oh another one who has never served
I'm glad someone makes videos like this. most of the foreign youtube channels I've seen before praised how well their soldiers fought. they took our blood to cover the shame of the loser. We fought for our country but they vilified it. I don't hold a grudge against American soldiers either. They also want to fight for their country. In short, what I want to say is that what is past is history, don't be proud of other people's blood. it is the language of hatred and war
I was an American former soldier I served in Vietnam 1967-1969. During my tour I was wounded twice. I was 11 Delta Recon 3rd Platoon A Troop 3/5th Cav. Originally, we worked the Iron Triangle between Bien Hoa and Xwan Loc before being taken North to Hue by LST in late Feb68.
Fact is I often felt compassion for the "civilians". You never knew who they "bad" guys were, they could be anybody but if you do want to make an enemy mistreat people is a sure way to make someone switch sides. For the most part they may not like us after all shoe on the other foot we too would be in the same situation. You may not trust them, but you don’t kill a obvious non combatant. I was there when the 4th came ashore, they were green and my observation pretty incompetent. I had been through some shit everything from Ap Bau BangII (google it here) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_battle_of_B%C3%A0u_B%C3%A0ng to Tet68. I heard about Mai Lay and it made me mad, my opinion is that Calley and Medina should have gotten life in prison. They were in a position of authority and responsibility. I know how the grunts felt, being sniped at all day, booby traps, and land mines takes their toll, but American soldiers are supposed to be better than what they did.
I remember watching this farmer following his water buffalo through the rice paddy one day and I was thinking to myself he does not give a crap who is running his country they only thing he wants to do is feed and raise his family, we are not the solution here, we are part of the problem, for me I have to be here because a Democrat LBJ took me out of school and sent my ass here to do as he wanted. I didn’t want it, neither did the farmer from earlier. I had a job to do and our motto as the Cav was to find the enemy (they were hard to find) and when the enemy made the mistake of shooting at us is when we react and pile on to kill him. We were pretty good at it too. We received several Presidential Unit Citations, one for Ap Bau BangII. We did not kill civilians but we were real good about killing those that attacked us. Even the road run to Bien Hoa on 29 Jan 68 to go protect the airfield we were attacked 5 times, lead tank had taken 9 RPG's and three times every man on the tank was killed. Each time Capt Garritson would look at three people and say YOU YOU and YOU on one one. ((vehicle11), Was I scared? Fuck yes, he never pointed to me and if he did I dont know what I would have done, I would hope I would do the right things (what ever the fuck that is). He didn't pick me, we lost nearly a hundred men in the five firefights on the way to Bien Hoa and that night, I never got a scratch... that night. Even Ap Bau BangII I never got a scratch. The night I did get a scratch, when the RPG hit the M60 I was shooting everything blew up in my face, I survived, a few scars and I did get most of my eyesight back and as it was to turn out later that day is my sons birthday. Linked forever now. Six hundred and eighty seven days in combat with no breaks, no R&R except my hospital time. Why I stayed longer than I had to is a different story. While there I worked the Iron Triangle, then after TET they put us on LST and shipped us north to Hue to be OP Con to the 1st and 3rd Marine and the 1st Air Cav and the 101 where we worked the Citadel then north along the coast up through Wunder Beach all the way to Dong Ha (through a small village called Bien An that no longer exists. Binh An in Vietnamese means Peaceful, fact is we were just driving by there on our way North when someone from the enemy K14 Battalion 812 Regiment decided to pop off an RPG as one of our ACAV’s Wrong thing to do, the ACAV might have looked like he was all alone but just over the hill behind him as another thirty of us. Once we surrounded them and they refused to surrender the US Navy was brough in to try to convince them a bit more.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Binh_An
We lost three men, they lost 233 confirmed count and captured 44 of them.
The battle lasted three days only because we could not get them to surrender.
I remember after pulling the decomposing bodies into a row so they can be accurately counted (and yes they all had uniforms) I was assigned to guard some of the prisoners. I remember looking at the prisoners and wondering if any of them had a hotted up motor bike back home up north. I was wondering maybe we were more alike than not. I had no hatred for them, don’t get me wrong if one of them made a twitch I would kill him in a second, but that is what I am here for. In a way I had respect for him being willing to put his life on the line, probably the same thing I would do if shoe was on the other providable foot. I was never a warrior, I am a builder, I make things, I fabricate, my hands best fit the handles on a lathe or milling machine.
In a few weeks we head south back down to Hue and then out across the Perfume River and out Highway 547 into the bottom end of the A Shaw Valley and we are working with the 101 for a few months. This is the bottom end of the Ho Chi Mien Trail where supplies are coming south and it is our job to interdict them. It is all mountains and jungle. There are NO friendlies out here, everything is a free fire zone 24/7. In late January 1969 I end my adventure; I remember the night of 31 Dec 1968 sleeping in the back of a 5 ton truck looking up at the stars listening to the radio and the last song on the radio just before it became 1969 was Paul Murat “Love is Blue”.
I am here not because I want to be here, I am here because a bunch of people voted LBJ into office. Personally, I don’t think Kennedy would have sent men to Vietnam, because he himself had been to war and knew the price, not the financial price, that is always there, but the human price. I survived, I went home, found a beautiful woman to marry and went back to school and spent the rest of my life making things, today I am 77 years old, my first wife is dead, after she died I married the first girl I dated (mistake) it cost me $578,000 dollars to get rid of that one (worth every penny) and now my best wife and I have kids both of which are Honors level University graduates and professionals in their chosen fields. I look back and I think what a lucky son of a bitch I am.
But that sob Calley and Medina, both should still be in prison. I want to apologize for all this crap but I tell this crap so I can show that I speak with experience. There is no excuse for having no Honor.
Thank you for your service and for your incredible comment. You are a great story teller. My husband’s dad drank himself to death after 3 tours in Vietnam. He died when my husband was 15. He never spoke about his time there. Not once. Very happy you made it home and that you survived to speak about the trauma of war. So many didn’t make it back but even the ones that did lost a piece of themselves they could never get back. I am so fascinated by war history. Mainly because it’s so insane that even today we kill each other to solve problems? Doesn’t make any sense.
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
Damn, great story. Much respect from a young vietnamese here.
@@GiaBao-gr2zd Thanks, that means a lot.
Thank you for sharing this Ken. I was able to visualize your story and I even played “Love is blue” while reading this. I’m really glad you came out of the war strong and the way you speak of it shows me that you have your honor and dignity intact. Maybe others weren’t able to speak of the war due to their actions and from that I learned a valuable lesson. The guilt some of those guys must have felt over the years must have been unbearably painful. I appreciate your existence and the path you chose on your journey. Thank you for your service and again for sharing.
- 31 year old Vietnamese American
This massacre was repeated multiple times with impunity by US military all over the world.
To this day where ever deployed. The Americans need to go man. If north Korea blew them up , I could care less
Evidence?
@@ThePierre58Hiroshima and Nagasaki????🤷???
@@ThePierre58the only country ho did trow two nuclear bombs over civilians in history 🤷
@@fitito500 relentless enemy who attacked the US….it took more than one bomb to get them to stop….and it’s the US’s fault? Plus the US rebuilt their country. Who does that?
So much respect for your courage in sharing and enlightening world wide. Being x military I thank you for your service! Lying to cover up crime is cowardice and of service only to criminals.
Man this got me teary eyed and got a knot in my throat seeing the kids God Bless the one’s trying to help and saved inocente civilians
@@jzsbff4801 u are a fool. My God have mercy on u
The Bible clearly states that GOD does NOT forgive the murder of innocent children. Those soldiers will face God on Judgment Day, and be consigned to the HELL OF FIRE.
And what should God do to the American, British.....
@@jzsbff4801 darling if you think material possession leads to happiness and consider material gains as the sky daddy rewards, please think again?
US are the REAL.terriorest😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
How hero like We Americans are huh? How damn noble
Exactly…😪💔 it makes me ashamed.
"History is written by the victors."
-Winston Churchill
Yeah just like germany. More to hit than hitler
I was a Drill Sergeant in 1979 and then an ROTC cadet later on an army scholarship. We were all taught the My Lai Massacre in our classes about following unconstitutional orders. We were told Calley got a life sentence and the number of other soldiers who were charged. They also emphasized that "I was just following orders." It is NOT a valid defense and you are still guilty; that officers who violate their constitutional authority are criminals as soon as they give such an order and that any soldiers who follow those illegal orders are criminal. I think the lesson would have lost its effectiveness if they had told us Calley was pardoned so they left that out. When Reagan was President he issued Executive Order 12333 saying that assassination and torture were inconsistent with American ideals and beliefs and they would be prosecuted as crimes. George Bush Jr. rescinded those orders, and neither Obama nor any other President after Reagan has reinstated them.
I understand bad things happen in War & no one was trusted or knew who the enemy was. But, those Soldiers, who committed murder & rape against innocent civilians. They will be held accountable for their actions one day.
I agree…shame shame shame..
I got to know Hugh Thompson as my VA Rep in Lafayette, LA. in the 90's. I never knew of his specific heroic actions until after he passed and I read his book. He was a genuine and caring man.
I'm Vietnamese, i feel terrible about what they did, they are monsters
My father came back from this war broken and an addict. He would choke my mother in the middle of the night with his night terrors. He told my mother about all of the children he killed and he said that was the hardest for him. He ultimately committed suicide.
I am sorry for your loss, I am a veteran and it hurts me when I hear about a fellow veterans pain and suffering
@@ThomasG.-hh9gg it hurts me when I hear about the suffering of the Vietnamese to
@@ThomasG.-hh9gg thank you for your kindness and your service.
I have listened to other 'Nam vets who share they were supplied with drugs to help them cope with the orders they were given and the treatment that the Vietnamese civillians were subjected to.. and other wars the same thing, re the drugs.. so sad.. no one wins in these situations.. all are victims..
Sorry for your dad's and your loss.. what a horrific experience to be put through.. those children are in heaven now.. they don't reject Yahweh's ownership and all belongs to Him so when they leave here they are with Him once more.. your father went through hell on earth.. i pray he found peace with our creator in the moments of his passing from this part of life to the next 🙏
These stories are always heart wrenching..
Peace to you Shylara
@@Shylara, I'm so sorry.
Thank you for this. This must not be forgotten.
My Uncle was in the Vietnam War. He had shrapnal in his back so came home with an honory discharge. He had scars on his back. He had flashbacks of planes in the sky and would say " Do u hear them"
He is ok now years later. That war killed and messed up so many lives! 😢😢
Can you also remember the CCP’s invasion of Tibet and Xinjiang?
😢
@@诚聘板主 They got sophisticated and attacked the entire world with Covid. 30 thousand individuals a day flew in and out of their airports.
Every war ….. it’s going on today ..
Disgusting. As an American, I’m embarrassed by their ruthlessness to say the least. I will never understand how men can justify such violence. That was beyond war, that was personal to every one of those soldiers who did that so willingly.
What you feel about thanking these guys for their service?
well go back into your crystal palace then dear and the adults will have to take care of the real world
@@LHLK-q2v you call rapists adults?
@@grandcanyon-d4d yes they are not minors, references to being an adult only apply to age
And you’ve written that using a phone or tablet, which contains minerals and precious stones, mined by little boys in the Congo, used as slave Labour. You’re as guilty as anyone else.
"Just following orders," is used to justify the most brutal and inhumane acts in history.
no it is reality dear, too bad you think that life is a wonderful bowl of fantasy
I agree. 😪💔
@@LHLK-q2v L
I had a great uncle who was in this war and the things they had to do there haunted him for the rest of his life , he couldn’t even talk about this war without crying and that’s if you were even able to get him to talk about it at all …. God rest his soul
Lol, if there is a God your great uncles soul most definitely isnt resting XD
I’ve heard very few of my fathers stories. He was held pow until 1974. He was shot twice in the back and in Hanoi for the last 6 months of the war. The things I’ve heard from my father haunt me
I hope he has found peace
@@-Markus-unless he "repented" of course. Then Jesus gets him to heaven.
There is no god! Instincts are created by political ideologies. God is the greatest lie drawn by man..😂
I've heard of this massacre. It sickens me. The details of these events are very heart-wrenching. This makes me feel depressed about life and what human beings are capable of doing to each other.
It was a prank get over it .
That's only one of the known massacres.... atrocities upon civilians/ villagers were routine, as was USA/ CIA systemic torture
ITS FAKE NEWS AND LIES NO PROOF OF ANY OF THIS
There will be massacres look what happened at wounded knee South Dakota 1890 7 th cavalry united States Army 911 , war is sad
Satanic
I wonder how a million Iraqi civilians died after the US invasion and how many massacres will never be heard of !
Exactly. 😪💔 no wonder other countries hate Americans
There are estimates of 500,000
@@LD-qj2teand they are way out bet it was more than a million but the half is making it look better for America
Ya iraq and libya were no different but now its more if a globalist murderius stakeholder caoitalism agenda.ukraine war us all wef planned money kaundering wealthvtransfer also
I was a soldier in the 90s. My squad were told if you shoot someone their will be an inquiry into that shooting. If it was an enemy combatant the shooting was justified but if it turned out to be a innocent you shot and killed you would be charged with murder. The officials who told us these rules of conduct/engagement were never on the front lines where the shootings took place.
Just saying people make rules but you need good commanding officers to carry those orders/ rule out.
I can see what happened in this video, their CO wanted payback for their much loved Sargent who had been killed the day before, so he ordered the massacre.
Unacceptable and all men should be accountable for their own actions. Murder is murder, even it is 1000s miles away from home.
I think the government wanted more support for the war in Vietnam that’s why it was never truly brought to the war crimes committee.
The same as it wanted the war in Iraq. Faking the story about some WMDs
When you vote in 2024, remember Trump pardons war criminals, if this stuff bothers you. He will encourage soldiers to be brutal and as cruel as possible to reflect the dark soul of this man.
So all the people shot are enemy combatants and if whistleblowers and journalists like Assange come with proof to counter that, you imprison and torture them. Use the establishment media to prevaricate, deflect, ridicule and demonise them and label critics as traitors and doing the bidding of Putin and China
I was eligible for the draft in 1971. Nothing like being faced with being forced to entering into that hell. I received a high number but some friends got pulled in. That experience gave me a whole new understanding of how the military industrial complex is in control of the planet…
Them and big oil
Dont forget Afghanistan and iraq and korea also...
@@thebrowns5337 It’s *the Jews* You’re welcome.
Remember, CEOs have names. Might as well NOT even comment with a useless ambiguous “Big Oil” / Big Brother / Illuminati comment.
The true heroes were those who refused to go and those who, although not drafted, refused to join this [adjective missing] war. Draft dodgers were the true patriots.
@richardlawson6787 And, don't forget WWII and defeating the NAZIS. What a waste of human lives, right? We should never have fought those misunderstood, falsely maligned NAZIS, right? It was all a bunch of lies by the Military Industrial Complex, right? All war is horrible, right? War is senseless, right? Why get involved? Let those Jews defend themselves, right? None of our business, right? When the leaders have to fight the wars instead of young men, then there'd be no wars, right? Hitler would have kicked the much older, frail, cripple, FDR's ass, and the war would be over. Yup, we'd have peace. NAZI peace. And, no Jews. And, no Blacks. But heck, we'd at least have no war, right? You'd be OK with that, right?
It’s devastating for any man or woman to die.. but I just can’t even fathom killing a child..
being a mother of two, the thought is just heartbreaking
Completely inhuman
unfortunately it happened on US soil also.
Read up on the Massacres of the Native people.
I can still remember an article where soldiers were using babies as target practice.
@@silentrunner7283 I’ll have to look at that. That’s absolutely terrible :/
@@silentrunner7283
And raping
Little rattlesnakes grow up to be big rattlesnakes and are also very deadly.
Too much sadness and evil. No matter what, War is hell for everyone.
My father was MEDVAC in Vietnam and returned home in 1966. My brother killed himself while he was in Vietnam (Heroine overdose). I joined the USMC after I graduated and learned very quickly, that if the Government said it did not happen, it did not happen (I would give specifics, however, no one would believe it). My mother never came to accept the death of her son. What a tragic conflict this was. The man that was mentioned "Vanardo Simpson" committed suicide years later after his son was killed by a stray bullet in Jackson, Mississippi.
Isn't it terrifying how similar the statement "If the Government said it did not happen, it did not happen" is in both the USA about Vietnam (or Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) to how the Russian Government and Putin try to 'announce' what is true or not about Ukraine today?
@@britishknightakaminininja1123 Don't you mean what the Media and Elites say happened? IF the Ukes were not getting hammered we would not be doing the Constant Murmansk Convoys to Uke land, along with other countries. Does anyone have any idea really how much equipment and cash have been laundered in the attempt to squash Putin. Like another Guy Rootin for Putin, we have more Marxists in the US, than Putin has left in the Russian Fed.
Does anyone still posses INtegrity anymore?
During the Vietnam war the CIA they were smuggling "heroin" all kinds of opium's..Black hash with opium through it all paid for by American business men in the United States they were using "Air American Airlines" this is the biggest reason they were keeping troops out of Laos and Cambodia because the enemy and the CIA were working together both sides were making money off of drugs..More people died from heroin overdose in the United States then you could ever imagine,The war was completely over by 1975 Air American went out of business in 1976..That War had nothing to do with Communism it was all about Power Money and Drugs That's it...🤬
A disgraceful war from which rhey learned nothing
Ahahaha
Many countries seem to try and 'forget' atrocities their own nation committed or were involved in throughout history. The unsung hero's were those who put themselves in a position to stop or try to stop such activities amongst their own forces. No conflict has ever avoided such crimes.
Who started the conflict? America has no business of being there. Now that you try to justify America actions... I curse you and your f@mily to hell...
Absolutely correct 👍
Forget?? Some just deny they ever happened. The Japanese deny Nanking. Turkey denies the Armenian slaughter.
Oh....I guess that makes everything just fine. Not to mention that they killed over a million civilians in bombing alone. But the U.S wants to judge others like they are God.
Can you also help remember the CCP’s invasion of Tibet and Xinjiang?
I was a infantry soldier in Vietnam in 1968 was a draftee my unit would never ever do anything like this I can’t even imagine why these soldiers did this yes it was frustrating when you lose your buddies to booby traps and mines but to take out a whole village was ridiculous…what these idiots did that day labeled all of us as baby killers and it wasn’t right…
Were you in a com bat unit?
Many of these villages supported our enemy. The had radios to contact our enemy, & give our troops location.
The kids/women tried to kill you.
No way of telling if a village was friend, or foe. 1 suspicious move could set our boys off. It's die. Or react.
@@equine2020baby killers apologists
They were told it was a vc village and ordered to kill them. 3/4 would not obey officers order. But several machine gun bursts finished them off in under a minute.
Americans still go these killings in Iraq in Afghanistan in Libya and Syria to name a few....they murderers and child killers...why do you people even attack and are in other peoples Country ...
I was a combat engineer near My Lai, Vietnam in 1970, 2 years after the massacre but just a few months after the news of My Lai became public. I was operating in the same Quang Nai province and even visited the (abandoned by then) My Lai village as part of a quick recon effort one afternoon.
The Army had ordered US troops to avoid civilian casualties long before the My Lai incident became public in late 1969. Punishment, including court martial was ordered for abusing civilians. That was the policy before and after My Lai, though that was clearly a challenge to enforce everywhere all the time during a war as the massacre illustrates.
There were a lot of casualties in that area due to land mines. My combat engineer platoon alone found at least one land mine every day while mine-sweeping a road just a few miles from My Lai - two years after the massacre. The VC were still actively burying mines at night.
As we work in front of a computer every day now it’s difficult to imagine daily combat stress that comes from hearing of or seeing someone in your organization getting their legs blown off and wondering if you’re next. This would affect any young person, and the thin veneer of civility that a 19-20 year old arrives with in Vietnam can be stripped away fairly quickly.
So, it’s the responsibility of the officers and NCOs to control that, and certainly not encourage it as Calley and Medina did. This massacre was a complete failure in command, primarily at the company level. Lt Calley and his company commander Cpt Medina were rightly held responsible, though the punishment was arguably too lenient.
Thank you for your service. I really am sorry so many went through this hell and were treated very unfairly when they got home. I was 10 in 1968 so I went to into my teens pretty oblivious.
Imagine women just trying to protect their babies 😢
Women have been trying to protect their babies from man and their frivolous wars since the dawn of time. Sad reality of the evil that infested this world.
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TYPICAL AMERICAN @@TigersPawYT
War crimes against unharmed women and children including babies, should be treated as the worst type of crimes no matter the orders from superiors, for any country's soldiers, there is no valid reason or excuse that makes it right.
Yeah, sure bc you would have done differently. Those boys got sent to Vietnam most of them don't want to be there. They got drafted and sent to a country they don't care for it and a war that they don't believe in. We shouldn't be in that war. Blame the French 🇫🇷 It was the French who started that war. Not 🇺🇸.
Agreed
And ppl support these monsters
How awful this is. I feel for the family's relatives that survived.
Your Great Country The psycho racist Global Bully.Karma is a patient Gangster
Bush and Blair
Sick people in this world
Very sad story. Innocent civilians men, women, and children were killed in their own land. Where is democracy?
And this is just a drop in the bucket of what the US has done,
Not a bucket, an ocean.
des Ordures
This was, and all wars, are inexcusable massacres. This video is horrifically painful to watch. It hurts my heart so much. May all those harmed receive peace and healing. ❤
Wars are an extension of politicians' insane greed & vanity
Small surprise so many backed the Monsters of Mi Lay or that Nixon, a perfidious man, pardoned the murderer Calley.
I teared up while watching the video and was left speechless with a sense of shock, disbelief and sadness.
It is still barbaric but would make some sense to execute all the men. .. but to r~pe and kill women and children and hear some scream as they burn alive in their homes is a level of evil that we associate with Nazis during World War II.
😞😞😞😞
Well said, this broke me…
@@ArmyWolves Because of course Women can't set land mines or fire guns?
You miss the point profoundly & utterly
@@babboon5764 about kids and old people?
The other part of the story was in the Pentagon Papers, the secret history of the war that documents how the USA's top officials and military officers led the nation into the war based on lies and knew the war was both brutal and unwinnable, but escalated it, expanded it and continued it for years anyway, causing the tragic deaths of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians for no other reason than they did not want to be blamed for losing the war. These people, from Johnson and Nixon, were just as responsible for this shameful atrocity as the soldiers doing the actual killing. Perhaps even more responsible.
Well said.
Who who gives the orders should be responsible for the actions of those orders.
Same things they do in Ukraine.
Recently they caught ukrainian in solovenia border selling children organ.
Unfortunately in October Russians were unable to evacuate all the children in Ukraine which nazi took back.
And how does satanic people make mockery out of it?
Calling Russian as child kindappper.
I live in India so my country unlike american s don't have censorship of news.
I watch both russian and American news, and my God you people are just brainwashed like islamic terrorist
And as said by Russian colone who caught wind of this things, This is not some ukrainian criminal profiting from war, because plane that flew children organs and traffick children for Americans and Europeans elite pedos were given green light by both Ukranie and EU officials.
That Russian colone in documentary at the end warn that after this war end they gonna hunt down and assasinate all who were responsible.
This was in October
Didn't Nixon end the US involvement in Vietnam?
I learned one thing from this channel that whoever is in power is never innocent
or easy to blame
Power corrupts.
No one is ever good in war it’s bad vs less bad
This war (the stories) have terrified me for my entire life. The atrocities that I had seen on the news, the veterans I have in my family, the thought of the draft and being forced against all of my beliefs to go and do these things or be part of jungle combat at all for a war we should have never been in for a country that does little to nothing for the majority of its citizens. It’s all horrible. I have respect for the veterans who served and believe that most served with honor, but the war and all it showed was terrible for everyone involved.
It went down in history where the US got its a$$ whooped.
@@m3lvn415 I respect and very much appreciate your sacrifice.
@@Mike-sl9gm unfortunately yes :-(
Totally agree! Any conscientious objectors were castigated yet that's what all people should do to make wars impossible to create. People have just bn cannon fodder over the centuries. Unfortunately before people realise they can refuse it will all be fought with drones and AI driven tools and even nuclear arms. If we haven't learnt in many thousands of years we will actually never learn. So the biggest armies will dominate jn more and more forceful ways until our inevitable destruction. Not fear mongering here just historical facts and current situation globally.
@@1clayt0n1 yup. You’re exactly right.
Nothing has changed, we see the torture, rape, and murder done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay to innocent people, those responsible at the top were never held accountable. I am an American Iraq war veteran, and was married to an Iraq war veteran who saw exactly what went on. My dad, uncle and cousin were Vietnam war veterans; most wars should never have happened, few wars are necessary.
The politicians send our children to war while theirs never serve.
No lessons learned.
It's all globalist bankers.
There are many things held secret in a war, but eventually the truth comes out. Great topic.
100% sure some never get out. Truth always come out is just myth. If there is no proof all document destroyed. No one admitting till they die. Than the truth is buried.
Eventually? We've known about My Lai since shortly after it happened. I knew about it -- as did the press -- within a few weeks WHILE I WAS SERVING IN VIETNAM.
It was never a "secret."
@@MCOult Yes, we knew about it years ago. My comment was meant to be general.
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The Vietnam War isnt just a stain on American history, it is also a major stain on Canadian history. Canada was part of the International Control Commission (ICC) and was to oversee that the Geneva Agreements were followed. We were suppose to neutral, but we turned a blind eye to many atrocities and the negotiations were on the American side. A lot of the weapons used were manufactured in Canada, such as the napalm bombs. Even the Agent Orange that was used, was tested in Canada first. The U.S hid a lot of things, but only because they knew Canada allowed it to happen and wouldnt do anything about it. On the international stage, Canada was opposed to the war, but behind closed doors, Canada made billions in profits supplying weapons and raw materials to help the U.S war machine. The Vietnam War was not one of Canada's finest moments in History.
The N.Vietnamese were no saints. I wouldn't say it is a "stain". Someone had to step in to stop the commies. Read about vietnamese atrocities and how they threatened and used civilians.
I had family that served in Vietnam, and none of them ever wanted to talk about what happened over there. It's scary what people will do when a Higher Up orders it.
All of the Nurenberg trial accused have claimed "Higher Up orders", but they hanged up all of them.
Watching evil happening and do nothing is D_vil
It's more scary how the U.S. just put its head in the ground during COVID and followed like little sheep.
I'm all about accountability but I don't see any "shifting blame" here. Like most Americans, especially military, his family members were trained to follow orders. Thats what you do. They were likely ashamed and traumatized from what they were ordered to do. In their case, they had no choice but to follow orders to survive.
@@aboomalacani2732BS. Only if you're dog or USA soldier you folow all orders, right?
They were invaders in independent country, killers and monsters...ALL of them were scum and killers, part of evil force. C'mon, millions died because of USA occuoants but you still have excuse. They did it many times in All parts of the world. Even today.
after all the atrocities America had done to the Vietnamese people, to this day they still welcome them to their country with open arms. they are the most caring and loving people i have met.
Thank you, Michael. Our motto is that life goes on and to leave the past behind (no matter how painful) 🙏🏻
@@TheresaElle to sin is mortal, to forgive is immortal
@fermatichebellosei1595 you gathered that out of what I said about moving on with life?? Did I say anything about Judicial systems?
You think we don’t have anger and resentment from what happened? So everyone should just give up on life and be angry forever and waste every minute replaying what happened right? The strength to move on is a warrior not like a little B to keep re-hashing and demand a whole month out of the year to dedicate to bad historical times.
The comment was welcoming Americans. Not every American caused those atrocities, so seeking revenge on a group as a whole doesn’t justify. Reference exactly where I said no prisons or let rapists roam. I’m Canadian. Our catch and release judicial system is disgusting.
Well what are they going to do ?!/
America was fighting the Chinese for you, appreciate that fact
And America has the nerve to condemn other countries
I visited the War Remnants museum yesterday in HCMC. Some of the stuff about Agent Orange was absolutely horrific and genuinely hit me. Never had that happen to me before at a museum. We only really get the USA perspective of the war in the UK so it really was shocking to see some of the atrocities that the USA committed
Let me get this straight. From what you just said, it "shocked" you to see "some" of the atrocities the US committed, only when you visited the museum yesterday?
So the 20+ years of the war against Afghanistan and Iran, falsely claiming they have WMD;
Over a million civilian casualties from that war;
The footage of the US military mercilessly killing unidentified innocent people like a video game, leaked by Julian Assange who is now under confinement because of "national security";
Also wanted for "national security", Edward Snowden who was the whistle blower against the NSA's global surveillance programs, and their privacy infringing ethics;
The US dollar hegemony they setup post WW2 to stay in power, bullying their way through 3rd world countries, taking their resources and "lend" them money with 30% interest rates;
Demonizing China while American corporations took advantage of their cheap labour and gigantic work force, so they make astronomical profits;
The continuous meddling of politics on every continent on Earth in the name of "freedom", while accusing others are meddling in theirs;
I can go on, but I'll stop here. The USA has been doing everything they accuse other countries are doing since forever. And you are "shocked" only just yesterday by visiting a museum that couldn't show you the worst of the worst. The rock you live under must be ginormous.
@@DubboU you left out all the genetic repercussions of agent orange. My father was in a agent orange storage facility got out of the marines and conseved me 3 weeks later. Was born with no tear duct. Scoliosis upper back. Weak wrist and ankles. Only son died in 5 weeks after birth .other health problems to. Gov don't want to pay for that. Gee live ing the American dream 😇
@@DubboU damn dude chill. I know about pretty much everything you just said. I didn’t know about agent orange however. Seeing photos of deformed children in that museum, some with descriptions of how mothers abandoned their babies because of how they looked on the streets, yeah, believe it or not that was pretty emotional to learn about.
@@c.l.visions2581 I'm chill. Just that knowing the facts, it's hard not to type all that stuff out in reaction to the way you worded your sentence.
I have not visited the museum. I can only imagine how you must have felt. Hope you shake it off.
And you ignore the atrocities committed by the Vietcong and their supporters. There were few totally innocent people in many villages, and while that does not justify these incidents, it certainly provided the catalyst when the US GOVERNMENT sent the troops in with warped goals and standards for waging the war. The American people were mostly unaware of a lot of the political workings that led us into the Vietnam war and made it's battles into total failures or criminal outcomes. And then to top it off as the public became aware they began treating the line soldiers like garbage. It was a very low spot in our history but it was NOT a result of atrocities conducted just by the US.
Evil can infect any country if good men do nothing !
The wuhan lab was just following fauccis' orders
Hard to do when it's half of your country. Reconstruction should have never stopped and voting rights should have been removed from southern states for decades, until they realized their mistakes and crimes against humanity.
Evil is American mercenaries, Ready to get killed for their Zionist master. Good men are those who defeat these mercenaries
@@gomahklawm4446 you have your history and wars confused there buttercup !
And you can die a hero or living long enough to become a villain.
As a 30 year veteran having served in combat for 48 months, these types of actions (smaller) remain fairly common. Teams, Squads, Platoons, Companies, Battalions, Brigades, Divisions, and the DOD leadership have become EXPERTS downplaying or covering up atrocities committed due to orders given from Higher. Whistle blowers are censored and shunned, and their Special Action pseudo Investigations are predetermined through painted rosy outcomes. Loyalty??
Thank you
Are we talking about Iraq or Vietnam??? 😃😃😃😃😃
When you send young guys into combat what kind of result do you expect other than death and destruction? l laugh at the "RULES OF WAR" as being ridiculous.
I believe you, I served in the us army. Punish the politicians for sending the troops to Vietnam. Just before JFK was killed,JFK was planning on totally removing all American troops from Vietnam by Xmas 1965
@@John77Doe lol... word brother
And today they act like they are the most HOLY AND CIVILIZED human being in the world.
Two of my uncles served over there and one returned as an alcoholic, the other a drug addict because of what they saw and participated in.
War is Hell.... I can understand what you can't.......I'll leave it at that.....
Peace on earth.... With love and respect from vietnam...
An unfortunate result of bad leadership. Retired Marine Colonel Andrew Millburn has talked extensively about his time commanding young Marines, in the Middle East and around the world. He stated that after Marines were killed, he always had a talk about how important it was for them to uphold the values that we fight for and not go after bloodlust, or brutal revenge. Great officers and leaders can make all the difference in the world. That being said…Soldiers, Marines, Airmen and Seamen didn’t deserve the horrible treatment they received, when they returned from Vietnam. Excellent video, well done sir.
Yes indeed. Sent to war then abused on return. BTW, I was there. Only the Left threw pig`s blood and cried out "baby killers". Socialists ought to talk!
Now.. you understand why Vietnamese stand-up to fight no matter what.
Thank you very much for bringing to light such horrible unforgivable actions surely unforgettable by people of Milai may God give them peace.
Again it proves true; history IS written by the victors. Truth is hidden in the nightmares of those who witness such as this..
Technically the United States didn’t win the undeclared 10k day conflict
So why are we not hearing the Vietnam truth?
So why are we not hearing the Vietnam truth?
@@tastelesstube Because it was in the best interests of the North Vietnamese to never tell the truth. The massacres they inflicted on the South Vietnamese civilians, after the coward US politicians that pulled a successful US military our of the war, tells all the truth necessary.
Unless you think it was fine and dandy for the North Vietnamese to genocide 25% of the population of Vietnam and Cambodia, of course. Lots of leftists in these comments seem to be good with it.
History , is used as a weapon.
My father was in this war also 82nd airborne infantry division. I’m so sorry about what happened to all the people that were killed for nothing. Muhammad Ali was 100% right.
You are a sick man if you were proud of your grandfather and if he committed a war crime
@@Jacktan9203they didn't say anything about their grandfather.
I'm glad you acknowledge your father's horrific conduct of his division. I read too many comments of individuals that are trying to rationalize and in some cases justify these soldiers' actions. Furthermore, I commend you for your honesty. Wish more people could do what you did in the comment section.
@@jamierupert7563 Sounds like I hit a nerve. Hope you are feeling ok 😉
@@Jacktan9203 are u drunk??
As a combat veteran of Viet Nam (173rd ABN 1967-68)) I can’t say I neither condone nor disagree with lots of things I saw and did. Our miserable politicians are responsible because they sent us 18, 19, 20 year old kids into a mess the common man cannot begin to comprehend. Orders came from the top and they were brutal, so many young men just followed what they were told to do, a few managed to avoid these atrocities by faking participation and other excuses. War is a nasty business conducted by non participants.
Makes you wonder if there was a more nefarious purpose to those orders. To weaken morale for USA by commanding boys to commit atrocities, then have Walter Cronkite, a communist, plaster it on the news.
Tudo em troca de droga,os"meninos faziam".!😡🇧🇷
Stop blaming politicians for your own actions, I don’t care if you were 19 or 20, even if you were 17 you can’t tell me that you never knew that it was a crime to kill unarmed civilians that posed no threat to you, I pray karma catches up with you one day for your actions!
@@Slimdaddywills you most likely carry a gun don’t you ass wipe?
@@Slimdaddywills Pretty ballsy words for a gelding
You fight the bad way by showing them a better way - not by becoming what they accuse you of.
oh listen they are not there for a school boy lesson, they knew more about fighting gurilla style then the american troops ever had, that is why there was so many atrocities. the tunnels, the children, the mines, not knowing who the enemy was.
Such bravery displayed by the soldiers who killed children, women and seniors. Good little soldiers following the orders of their sadistic leaders over a war that does not concern them in the slightest. I applaud those who opposed these orders and saved civilians, as well as those who reported on the massacre.
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War is hell, KILL THE ENEMY,NO TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS
@@boboneil6479Unarmed infants are the enemy? I pray you receive the same fate.
How is a baby the enemy?
It was a Communist base. Using civilians as human shields. All nations do this. They also had spider holes with arms.
One of my best friend moved here on what was called a boat. She’s told me that even today the Agent Orange we sprinkled all over the ground is causing birth defects, babies with no fingers, misshaped head and others. All for a war America forgot.
Also the war they lost.
One of so many .
The most incomptent leafers and fighting force on the planet.
A corrupt govt that makes billions from conflicts they start all around the world .
The war in ukraine a perfect example.
Start them ,then walk away.
And horrid skin conditions like oily thick skin that sprouts painful cystic acne.
As a soldier, you don't kill unarmed humans! Another good reason to never fight an "undeclared" war.
how do you know they are unarmed that was a big problem in Viet Nam, small children carrying baskets would approach for candy, toss a grenade and run. It wasn't quite as easy as two sides lined up along a line fighting, this was gurilla warfare.
@@LHLK-q2v Can only go by my 15 months there, and my mistrust of commercial media.
@@LHLK-q2v Having been there for 14 months, I'm not buying the kids with grenades story.
@@JohnBdog Having been there 2 1/2 years the kids with grenades is a fact
"Tragedy" is not the right word. And it is the same word that is being used regarding civilian deaths in Gaza. It is not a tragedy, it is homicidal violence, genocidal violence. Or if not, we have to stop going around calling people "communists" and "terrorists" because we are practicing a Double Standard.
My brother fought in Vietnam and he returned home a different person, addicted to the drugs he used there to cope with the tragedies. He died years later from depression (not suicide).
During the Vietnam war from 1966 to 1969, the armed forces of United States supplied to their servimen 225 million tablets of stimulants, mostly Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine), an amphetamine derivative that is nearly twice as strong as the Benzedrine used in the Second World War.
The American military readily supplied its troops in Vietnam with speed. “Pep pills” were usually distributed to men leaving for long-range reconnaissance missions and ambushes.
A U.S navy commando said that the drugs “gave you a sense of bravado as well as keeping you awake. Every sight and sound was heightened. You were wired into it all and at times you felt really invulnerable.”
Soldiers in units infiltrating Laos for a four-day mission received a medical kit that contained, among other items, 12 tablets of Darvon (a mild painkiller), 24 tablets of codeine (an opioid analgesic), and six pills of Dexedrine. Before leaving for a long and demanding expedition, members of special units were also administered steroid injections.
In short, the administration of stimulants by the military contributed to the spread of drug habits that sometimes had tragic consequences-because amphetamine, as many veterans claimed, increased aggression as well as alertness. Some remembered that when the effect of speed faded away, they were so irritated that they felt like shooting “children in the streets.”
Vietnam was “the first war in which the forces of modern pharmacology were directed to empower the battlefield soldier.”
I'm sorry for your loss but also fuck him may he rot in hell
A war crime is so disgusting how can they justify what they done the big mobs should be held responsible for these war crimes shame shame America 😡😡😡😡😡😡
Lol another loser
I hope Collin Powell felt guilt about this his whole life.
Oh please he felt nothing he smiled
And Henry kissinger, that guy had a lot to do with military action in asian countries
What the North Vietnamese did in the city of Hue would make the incident at My Lai seem like a cake walk. Try posting the particulars of that !!!