The US Government Hid This About The Vietnam War (Warning* Mature Audiences Only)
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- From 1965 to 1973, the United States waged a grueling war against the Communist forces of North Vietnam. The conflict was a brutal guerrilla war where young American soldiers were sent far from home to fight an enemy that fought unlike anything the US military had seen before.
The Vietnam War remains controversial to this day. Some argue it was a justified defense of South Vietnam against Northern Communist aggression, while others argue it was an unjustified war of US imperialism driven by Cold War anti-communist hysteria. What all can agree upon is that the war resulted in the deaths of millions of people, a large portion of them civilians killed by the United States.
By 1968, the Vietnam War was going badly for the Americans. The Tet Offensive launched by the North in January 1968 had strained America’s military might and shattered US morale at home and abroad. Desperate to reclaim the initiative, the US launched a series of counter-offensives to push back the Communist enemy.
One target of this counter-offensive was Quang Ngai province, specifically the village of Son My. Son My was made up of several smaller hamlets including My Lai. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll stick to the more famous name for the whole village. My Lai, nicknamed Pinkville by the Americans because of its Communist sympathies, was believed to be a hotspot for Viet Cong (VC). US Intelligence claimed that the VC was active in the area and the village was essentially a Communist outpost.
In March 1968, Task Force Barker was assembled to deal with My Lai. The Task Force was made up of soldiers drawn from two companies: Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division. For simplicity’s sake, we will call them B Company and C Company. There was also an A Company but their role in events was relatively minimal.
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😂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
❤😢
@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.
"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?
"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 .
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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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....
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!!
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
@@user-fl1pc7zu7f ok, so what about all the homeless and suicidal?
@@user-td2jw9ze2c 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.
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?
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.
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.
"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. 😪💔
@@user-fl1pc7zu7fsweetie you’re a genius
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
@@krisfleischer7467 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.
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"?
🙏🙏🙏
Nonhumans can be jerks too
This is absolutely horrifying and so terribly sad 😭
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
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.
@@martinbisschoff988 wake up, if a company is bad, it’s always the top down. Who’s at the top??
@@Brandos_channel 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?
We had no business in Vietnam. Then we wonder why other nations think poorly about us. History or war, invasions and death
yep on the world stage alot of the world does not think very highly of america.
I so agree…I believe as Americans…the day will come when all of us and our country will pay for the atrocities commited. 😪💔
Yeah, and all the people in South Vietnam are living a pretty good life now without being communist thanks to America
And this is just a drop in the bucket of what the US has done,
Not a bucket, an ocean.
des Ordures
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 ?
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.
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 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
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??!!
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 .
How hero like We Americans are huh? How damn noble
Exactly…😪💔 it makes me ashamed.
"History is written by the victors."
-Winston Churchill
After all these decades, it is still sickening.
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
😢
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.
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Thanks for shareing your story . And thank you for your service .
I learned one thing from this channel that whoever is in power is never innocent
or easy to blame
Power corrupts.
Imagine knowing there was a massacre and acting it never happened. Finally, someone investigated it.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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Thank you very much for bringing to light such horrible unforgivable actions surely unforgettable by people of Milai may God give them peace.
"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.
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.
Vietnam is such wonderful Country with generous kind people wonderful people.
I drove a motorbike the length of the country, just amazing longing to go back....
your not american are you ? maybe they were simply afraid of you ? ? you know ,hi there i come in peace, while reaching for your side arm ?
My brother served 3 tours in Vietnam. The problem was you could not tell the civilians from the enemies. He told me that they had young kids that would run up to you with flowers and explosives then would detonated the explosives when they got near you. The pictures our news showed in the US, had large holes through the bodies, which the US did not possess. I for one have no idea what really happened. Unfortunately the North Vietnam soldiers did ware military uniforms, they were peasants. He also told me that our military would find stashed weapons in the civilian hutches (homes), so when they found the stashes, they would take the parents as prisoners, take and destroy them, then burn down their hutches.
It was never a clear war as WWI and WWII had been.
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.
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 CZcams otherwise it all was disappeared in main stream media.
🙏🙏
He's 74 and still living his life , I wonder if any of this still haunts him
As a Vietnam Veteran myself I sure hope it haunts him.
@@user-np9sv4zg2l no one wishes that on anyone
I don't think about the situation until I watch videos like this. At the time I was so worried about my older brothers having to go to Vietnam, and come home in body bags, like the neighbors son. I can't even watch this to the end. So what's America doing now? Still sending your children off to war. In the meantime, not protecting our borders!
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 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
Too much sadness and evil. No matter what, War is hell for everyone.
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.
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?
Amazing how the people in charge can do something so horrible, and yet not be held accountable all these years later. War makes me feel sorry I'm a human, because we are capable of such horrible atrocities..........👣
Murder is against the law until your government forces you to but rape is frowed upon. Make it make sense...
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
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.
I lost my 20yo Brother in 1967 and Better That He Died then to go through what so MANY YOUNG MEN HAVE HAD TO EXPERIENCE IN THAT HORRIBLE WAR ...
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
@@user-fl1pc7zu7f you call rapists adults?
@@user-td2jw9ze2c yes they are not minors, references to being an adult only apply to age
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.
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.
My grandmas brother fought in Vietnam. She told me a brief story of how he feel in love with a civilian woman. He ended up hiding her and bringing her food. Later after the war ended he went looking for her and found her, brought her back to America and married her. They had the most loving relationship my grandma ever seen. They lived their lives together and just recently passed away. 🌹🙏 it’s disgusting how war turns men into monsters.
Looking at war it never stops, why have we not learned anything from this 😢
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
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 couldn't be in the military because a deed like that would turn me fratricidal and Id commence in slaughtering my own for such a indignity, its how I feel about my government in a lot of ways.
This makes my heart ache. Instead of hate let's spread love.
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?
😢
@@user-vw9mm7xt4h 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 ..
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
In a group of people, there will be some that's heartless, evil and cruel.
One of the grunts that was present for this tragic event, having later on returned to civilian life, was given his old job back. After various kinds of trouble, he was assigned to work for me in a quiet part of the plant. I was briefed that he was in a fragile frame of mind and had been subjected to quite a lot of ridicule (his nickname was "killer"). All of my relatives had gone through WWII, and so I understood that this was a difficult situation. This guy could best be described as a "shell" of a human being otherwise, as vacant as one could be. Helping this guy get off the bottle and to pull himself together was the most difficult task that I ever undertook....
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😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
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 wa a teenager when this happened and also the time I lost respect for our military
War is terrible. Every and I mean every war is full of stories just like this.
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..😂
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.
These type of massacres are just too common throughout the World. One of the worst probably in Rwanda. So sad, it is not limited to one nation.
Although I avoided the draft in 1968 by joining the Navy...I was 1A right out of high school and there was no lottery yet. Even the Marines were drafting. One of my buddies joined the Marines and was deployed right out boot camp. He saw alot of combat, but the only detail he ever talked about was about using grenade launchers to fire on anyone they saw running in the fields...more for sport. He was disgusted by 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...
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?
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
In 1970, I was in 6th grade. We had a student teacher one day, and discussed the My Lai massacre. After the discussion, he asked us to write what the punishment should be.
I was very surprised; I was the only one who said they should be jailed or given the death sentence. Others suggested not guilty because you couldn’t trust who your enemy was.
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
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
Henry Kissinger should be rotting in prison.
Once he dies I want to piss on his grave. The damning part is I’d probably be arrested but he damn killed millions and gets away!
And no doubt Colin Powell is rotting in hell, if there is one. What a puke of an alleged human.
Alton should’ve been hung for all that he done to push this war of the lies that were taken because this one man
He's dead now
My uncle was in Vietnam and told me about the evil things Vietnam had done, including putting a cage on a soldiers head and letting a rat loose in the cage. Vietnam is not innocent of war crimes, it happens on both sides
So why U.S is on vietnam land? And like you said, your army did the horrible thing. Maybe more than. And we can't defend ourselves? You know how Orange Agency effects?
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.
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.
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?
I know one Vietnam vet. When he is out for a night, drinking and laughing, his facial expressions just change, and he starts crying like a baby. We know why, even though we never ask. There is no escape from your memories.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾
Prayers out for those trying to recover from the passing of their loved ones 🕊️
Prayers out for those trying to recover from trauma 🕊️
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
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.
It's important for this to come out, honor must hold out. We cannot view ourselves with blind eyes, both sides did incredibly evil things.
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.....
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.
This video sheds the truth on these atrocities, gives a whole new meaning of America the beautiful, home of the free, land of the brave, what a shame!
No it actually doesn't!
This is so barbaric. Salute to the helicopter crew for their bravery and humanity.
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 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