Originally Posted by
SASless
I never could understand why complete strangers tried so hard to kill me.....had they got to know me....it would have made far more sense.
Maybe because you were in their country, thousands of miles from home, armed to the teeth.
How would you react to a foreign country invading the US and doing the same ?
We had a terrible tragedy at a place called My Lai....US troops murdering almost 400 villagers.
A fellow Warrant Officer Helicopter Pilot and his enlisted Door Gunner stopped some of the troops from killing yet more villagers by turning the door gun on the troops and telling them they would shoot.
The Warrant Officer then filed a Report on the murders which kicked off the initial investigation, by a Captain who later became the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs named Colin Powell, which attempted to cover up the murders.
To put My Lai Into perspective....during the Tet 1968 attack on Hue....the NVA and VC murdered over 3,000 South Vietnames....Doctors, Lawyers, Politcians, Teachers, their families including Children.
As we are saying.....war and morality are not linear concepts.
Seymour Hersch wrote that My Lai was the one people found out about, as a result of the actions of the crew, he has recounted being told on numerous times that others went on but there was nobody around and nobody collected the details or cared.
How many people went to jail for My Lai ?