I was there, but people were never given the true story. Those people were VC, daily pretending to be a neutral village, at night they housed VC, supported, and attacked our company. What happened was wrong an over reaction, not by our Lt, but by the brass. I honestly don't know what happened up the chain of command, but yes, someone should have been hung for ordering the attack, but not the people just following orders.
None of that excuses anything given that the Yanks attacked Vietnam instead of supporting the Vietnamese and abiding by the Geneva Agreement in 1954 to unite Vietnam.
The matter should have been dealt with by an international court for war crimes and crimes against humanity instead of just being swept under the carpet by the Yanks to protect the senior Christian officers who ordered the massacre and the murdering thugs who butchered the unarmed women and children in My Lai. That's the same as letting Japan try their own war criminals who committed similar atrocities against my father and the other "Slaves of the Son of Heaven" in Singapore & Burma & Japan etc.
Anyone that murdered the unarmed women and children in My Lai should have also been imprisoned, and the senior Christian officer(s) executed, and then all rot in hell.
And I'm currently reading a book about the death marches in North Borneo (where I visited recently) and how those Japanese who were also "just following orders" were executed. And I cried at the memorial garden near Ranau when I realised that my father could have been sent to Sandakan too, instead of to build a railway in Burma and then to mine coal near Nagasaki.
Your a supported of the VC, so your just a traitor to your own country, the VC murdered over four million people when they took over the south.
FYI the VC were the South Vietnamese who were fighting against the corrupt brutal police regime in Saigon, and why the Yanks didn't have a clue why they were there or who they were fighting.
And why do you claim that I'm a traitor to my country, given that I'm not even Vietnamese?
And do you have any actual evidence to support your claim that the South Vietnamese murdered over four million people when they defeated the corrupt brutal police regime in Saigon, or is that just more fake Yank propaganda?
And anyone familiar with the English language knows that the word "your" is not a synonym for "you're" or "you are".
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Your a supported of the VC, so your just a traitor to your own country, the VC murdered over four million people when they took over the south. I hated being forced into the military and into combat, I did my tour and got out. You probably never seen the brutality of the VC. You were camped out in Vung Tau, that was a R&R party place, most likely never locked and loaded, or did they even let you have a weapon, sure didn't need it down there.
I was a conscientious objector and reluctant conscript, and as a non-Christian I never believed that it was right to be supporting the elite corrupt brutal police regime in Saigon. I worked in the pathology lab in the hospital at Vung Tau to help save lives, not to take them, including the VC who were "dusted off" to us. And I certainly haven't changed my mind since then about interfering in the Vietnam Civil War after the defeat of the French Colonialists in the Vietnamese War of Independence. And if FDR had survived the war, I'm sure he wouldn't have supported French colonialism and wanted to nuke the Vietnamese like his successors, and you wouldn't have needed to slink back home to build that wall in Washington as a memorial to futility and complete stupidity, since the Yanks were never ever going to win that war which they had no clue about. In the same way that attacking Iraq and Afghanistan is futile too. And afterall Nguyen Sinh Cung even ask the Yanks to help the Vietnamese against the French colonialists. And on a trip back to Vung Tau a year or so ago I smiled to see a temple has been built to his memory where the ALSG HQ was 50 years ago, and there is now a five star hotel where our swimming pool was and where I played water polo and near where I surfed and sailed the yachts on our beach.
Perhaps you should read "Embers of War" by Fredrik Logevall about why the My Lai butchers didn't need to build that memorial wall to futility in Washington.
As for the Jews, America is the one that helped them reestablish their homeland, As Christians we are taught to love the Jewish people, they are God's chosen people. The bible says whomever curses the Jews, God will curse. We destroyed Hitler with the Help of the Russians and Bits so your comment is obviously misinformed and mean spirited.
Hitler was a Christian and was obeying the commandment for genocide (Deut 7:16) and as prophesied in Matt 27:25, and why Christians persecuted Jews for the last 2000 years.
And there is no excuse for kicking the Palestinians out of their land, given that the Jews and the other Semites lived harmoniously there for centuries before the Zionists stole their land just like Joshua et al did when they butchered all the children and unborn (Josh 6:21 8:26 10:37). And the Yanks could have resettled the Jewish refugees in New Mexico and renamed it New Israel instead of creating ISIS when Dubya attacked Iraq looking for "weapons of mass deception".
This is totally off subject, and I won't comment further about Vietnam or anything America is doing. This is a Christian forum and we need to keep our focus on the topic.
This subject is about why people aren't Christians, and why less than 10% ever bother to go to church now, and why more than 30% said they had no religious affiliation on the recent national census compared to 22% on the previous census.
... and I was just thinking something similar about a number of skeptics.....what a coincidence!
