Interviews with Veterans of My Lai
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- Fifty years ago at the height of the American War in Vietnam, an event known as the My Lai Massacre took place in a small village. Five hundred civilians were killed by U.S. troops. The following are taken from interviews with some of the soldiers of C Co. 1/20 Inf who were there that day.
This is the first time I am seeing these interviews. Speechless.
@ David Crimaldi... 😭 💔 same here. I, too, had never seen this. (I sent it to all the adults in my 'contacts')
How old are you David..?
In the book "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam " explains this went on all the time.
This should be required viewing for every high school history class. And then require it again in college. Also make it a requirement to watch this before you get to register to vote.
I agree im 13 and im watching this for entertainment but I absolutely agree with this!!!
100% except that would kill recruiting
@@domwings4329 EXACTLY! 😁
Required reading would be “the peoples history of the United States by Howard Zinn”.
The government and army don't tell the truth. Most of human History is a lie. Most believe their lies. Billions of humans have been deceived and lied to by other humans. I won't miss this planet when I move on.
How every single person that witnessed that massacre didn't have extreme debilitating PTSD is beyond me
Simpson committed suicide in 97. His son was killed at age 10 and his daughter died. he went to war and committed crimes against humanity for which he was exonerated. His Wikipedia says he participated in rape, mutiliation and murder at My Lai. Yeah, I'd kill myself too if I woke up one day and realized the monster I was. He believed losing his son was punishment for the murders and maybe it was.
It takes time to dawn on you. First, the nightmares then assigning personal tragedies to comic justice. it takes time.
Chances are, many (most?) of them did! But back in those days PTSD wasn't the 'get out' that it is so often these days.....
Look up Varnardo Simpson, the black dude in this interview. His interview in 1989 is heartbreaking
They Dehumanize the Vietnamese and didn't see them as people. That's what the Army do take away your identity
This is a good lesson for people who have not seen or lived through war. We are no better than the Nazis. The smirking on some of their faces says it all.
You support Ukraine right? So YOU support Nazi’s. Imagine that fact !
Nazism never raped children ,
In my lai they reped 6-9 children
Sorry, but plenty of vets make up stories based on what they think they can get out of it. The makers of this propaganda piece were good at ferreting out the slime.
@@ConanTheContrarian1 this massacre was real and so many more crimes
@@ConanTheContrarian1
You retarded shit, you call this a propagenda? Bravo maniac. Just bravo.
Anybody that doesn't believe the average soldier would fire on American Citizens if told to needs to watch this.
It depends on the individual.
@JJ_SDWR no it doesn't, there is a moron at the top of these comments saying " orders are orders "
“There were some rapes at time” (like recalling the market carried fresh mangoes now and then)🤯
These ppl were monsters, and the leaders of the units, made up lies to get them to do this, I think they should have been accountable too, but the fact that only one person went to brig, only for this is insane.
It reminds me of when police investigate police corruption, and find out there's nothing to see here, we've investigated ourselves and find ourselves innocent of all charges.
Pure evil.
16:29 was one of the creepier moments. The long pause, the knowing, but not telling.
Talking so casually and laid back as if they are discussing a movie or a book. The banality of evil.
@@shable1436 Wonder what kind of lie you could tell someone to cause them to have an erection and penetrate a screaming child?
I can appreciate that our history teacher taught us this in high school. Not sure if it was mandatory to learn but he taught it
US Army Veteran here.
*EVERY* individual in this interview is a sociopathic monster.
I'm a Nam Era vet. I have 1 question for you and you want know the answer bc I knew a soldier who was in that village the day before the massacre....
Do you know why that village was called Pinksville by the troops? I'll wait!
@@michaeloliveri1907 the topographic map color coding to indicate population density in the village. Idk what your point is, or you just heard some other scuttle butt back then but the name pinkville was coined due to it's pink coloration defining population density on the maps.
@michaeloliveri1907 tell us what u think the reason is
It's incredible and sad to see Varnado Simpsons transformation from how he is in this interview, to the one he did in 1989. It really shows how much of what he did at My Lai ate away at him because he's completely different in both.
Here, the start of a decade. Then, how he'd end up towards the finish of the next decade. A shambling overweight, med dependent wreck. Though there's a story he only felt remorse over My Lai from '77 onwards, due to the death of a family member.
@@Kelly14UK he blew his brains out with a shotgun due to guilt at murdering and torturing people at my lai. died may 1997.
@@Kelly14UK considering at the end of this video he says he considers even going to Vietnam to be a war crime I'd say he recognized his guilt a lot earlier than that.
He laughed about it!! He was known to enjoy it!!! He was one of the rapist, he mutilated people, killed babies!!! This video he literally says when he saw the poor woman he shot did not have a weapon but a baby which he also killed and his words “it cracked me up”
Anyone who has done something wrong in their life believe me are haunted for the rest of there life’s and in know way get away with it
My Lai Massacre, also called Pinkville Massacre, mass killing of as many as 500+ unarmed villagers by U.S. soldiers
AKA Son Mai. I think it's a group of tiny villages, or hamlets
Unarmed but not innocent
@@1223steffen could say the same about the yanks who died in 911
@@1223steffen so babies arent innocent? If a country wants to be communist what are they guilty from? They are guilty of communism? Thats a reasom to rape babies and killing women and children. COWARDS PUSSIES! Couldn't handle men so they took revenge with the children. Bunch of pussies American Soldiers are. No Honor! They deserve death penalty. So much anger towards the weak! WOW! God will serve justice. America is coming down soon. Every empire ends. God's Justice will serve America sooner or later.
@@1223steffen Civilians were not innocent? :D
Its weird how casual and aloof they are about it. Simpson is young here, but in the video where he is older, he realizes exactly what he had done, and it breaks him
Sgt. Hutto was in the bed next to me at Fort Polk Army hospital late in 1968. I was bad wounded, could not walk, had to shit in a bag. He told me all about the fight at My Lai. Pink Ville we called it back then. I also had been in the Americal Division. I never saw any thing like he described, thought maybe things like that happened, did not disbelieve him. He lad a leg injury, nor sure if it was a wound and did not stay there long. They were giving him a leave to go home and he borrowed 20 bucks from me, going to Boogolussa , LA. Maybe I spell that wrong. He said he would come back and pay me. He never did. just Like every other guy I lent money to in the Army who had to get home.
How did get wounded? There was one report of someone getting wounded by shooting himself in the foot or leg? He told you the nightmare that took place?
@@bossbonita1235 .. I'm sure Hutto did not shoot himself. When he told me about all the killing at Pink Ville , he was not upset in the least. I saw him on TV when I was back home discharged. Probably very late 1969 0r early 1970. The news was showing Lt. Calley charged with murder, the Sgt. Hutto charged with 2 counts of murder and rape.
@@bossbonita1235 Self inflicted wound
@@Thenogomogo-zo3un Wow! That’s terrible and absolutely traumatizing
@@bossbonita1235 yes he shot himself in the foot. My uncle was in Charlie and Co.
my grandma is 98 and talks about it till this day.
My uncle was court marshaled and testified against Cali. He passed away in 1991.
There is no excuse for killing unarmed civilians .
Orders are orders
@@RustyShackleford19999 Follower, simpleton logic
@@RustyShackleford19999 You are the type that would fire on American Civilians if ordered to
@@AshleySmyth1212 non White’s sure
@@RustyShackleford19999mr nasty nazi.
This video will speak through decades, if only those ears will be open to hear... I hope so.
18:28 "They were putting responsibility on other men." OR it might just be because the knew it was wrong and they didn't want to get involved
4 Hours In My Lai is the complete documentary.
Remember My Lai part 1 is a FrontLine documentary. The black dudes mental decline over the years from guilt and being haunted by what he did is unbelievable. Then , his own little boy was killed in front of him just put the pedal to the metal. Check it out.
A soldiers job is not to obey orders but simply to obey lawful orders. The only reason we don’t use lawful is because it is assumed and part of military and civilian law.
what do you do as an 18 year old kid who went thru basic training, kill training and are told if you dont kill you will be killed? After seeing the guys next to you blown up every day it gets to you. NOBODY has the right to pass judgement except the CREATOR. If there is hell to pay then let it be but unless you were there I think opinions are like a holes.
Besides killing you have a "duty to disobey," and is empowered by the Uniform Code of Military.
Nazi defendants in the Nuremberg Trials after WW II argued, to limited effect, that they were just following orders. U.S. Army Lt. William Calley used the same argument in defending himself against murder charges following the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. He ultimately served 3 1/2 years in military prison.
@@bryanpinto4051
"what do you do as an 18 year old kid.."
At that age you know what's morally wrong. Age doesn't excuse anything here.
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44:10 That teenager went through basic training and still disobeyed.
Their "enemies " were unarmed civilians.
@@MrFreeman0179, but the "sense of moral" is, I would say, "very flexible", depending on where it applies.
Law on the battlefield does not exist.
What is he talking about at 15:10? The civilians were 'huddling' because the Americans herded them over there and then massacred them.
And the guy at 16:30 - smiling at the rapes ? Despicable.
I thought the same. Pretty sure he was one of those who rape and mutilated from the way he acted
It didn’t seem like he was proud of it he seemed uncomfortable and embarrassed but then again I wasn’t there and i don’t know the man
Seemed to me like he didn’t want to talk about it maybe because it bothered him, but then again who knows
@@chuckf2156 Aww, his evil crimes "bothered him"? How touching.
Exactly, psychopathic mass murderers and rapists, every single one of them.
They're all so weirdly . . . casual. I understand the attitude of that time is a bit more composed and articulated than now but this is next level.
@@cycologist7069 It is. These guys are emotionally detached, and many never recover from that. Those of us who have never seen war, will likely never understand what happens to the minds of the men who have .
It's a coping mechanism. This interview was shortly after they got home. It takes many years for the fog of war and justification to fade from soldiers hearts and minds.
It's ptsd
The guy being interviewed in the moving car seemed like he liked it.
Interesting fact - all of these guys are dead except for the worst one - Garry Crossley of del rio texas - the guy in the car. He is 74 years old and still alive. Hopefully, the scenes of gang rapes he witnessed still torment him till the day he dies.
Garry Crossley didn't do much, all the testimonies are online and free to view, Roschevitz,Hutto, Hutson,Wright,Gruver, Smith, Conti, Torres, Delgado, Brown, Makey,Goodson Neria, Hodges etc were rapists and killers.
@@davidhanson3174 he was there and he watched little girls get gang raped murdered and did nothing to stop it. I hope he sees those images in his dreams every night and I hope there is a god that he will have to answer to.
@@uraigroves7898 Fair enough, for the record i'm not defending the man, however the only evidence i have of him is shooting a man on the arm. Bernhardt was totally innocent, infact he was discouraged and threatened to keep quiet. No evidence of Garfolo committing atrocities either, Bergtholdt and Simpson were 100% guilty of war crimes.
@@davidhanson3174 you are right - unlike most people you actually did research on this and know the facts. I spoke with simpson before he killed himself. what a wasted life. calley is still alive in florida living alone at 78 with cancer. when he dies I will have a small celebration and a toast. I await the others leaving this earth and hope I live long enough to see them all gone.
@@uraigroves7898 Gary Roschevitz who died in august 2020 was by far the worst that day, not that it was a competition. I saw a few pictures of him in the 1/20 reunion website, evil personified, i was told he was monitored by the authorities from the day he landed back in the states till the day he died the man was a monster.
Great honesty for history. If there werent any enimies when we arrived, there were - when we left..
This is just PURE EVIL and so f’ing heartbreaking. I come from a military family- yes, they’ve always told us war is war and it’s a terrible place to be in- BUT you’re a human being who loves your country and fight for what’s right- NOT cold blooded murder to INNOCENT people- babies, children, elderly, and women!!!!
That’s just pure EVIL!! 🤦🏻♀️ This is so hurtful I wish I could help every single victim in any way possible. These men have NO remorse whatsoever and actually smile and laugh when they talk about what they witnessed or wtf they did 🤦🏻♀️ Sickening after wtf they did, then literally talk about it as they’re back in their country with their freedom walking around living their lives as other lives of women, elderly, children, and babies were cut short due to these men and their cowardliness! Oh how nice it would’ve been if Medina’s fat ass and the other POS in charge were smashed by Hugh Thompson’s helicopter! Or blown away!! Then interview people to talk about while laughing!!!
Yes its first time i seen this. Paychopathic
The Nva did that. Patton killled woman and children and bragged about
@@1223steffen Anyone guilty of it is evil scum
@Robert Taylor You don’t know me- to tell someone “YOU have pure evil”
That’s something a demented, evil, ignorant person would say who’s f’ing guilty of some evil s**t like these men are so F**K YOU- So many others were in the same position, and refused to do anything so EVIL, cold blooded murderer to weak, helpless, innocent people so YOU’RE WRONG! And f’d up yourself- get help!
@Robert Taylor WOW! Sorry to burst your bubble- but you’re absolutely WRONG! You’re just a twisted little weirdo who posts f’d up comments thinking you know everything about everyone- clearly you Don’t! And to act as a total dumb a** accusing me of being upset cause you’re right! 🤦🏻♀️No, you’re not! Anyone would take offense to that twisted accusation- because it’s not normal! You’re demented and I’m certain guilty of some f’d up s**t- you’re very immature and just stupid! You know nothing 🤦🏻♀️ Keep telling yourself that BS- it’s just ridiculous it’s NOT universal truth- it’s very immature behavior by someone who’s completely full of your own s**t, trying to convince yourself that you’re correct- and you’re darkness is “normal” and everyone has it- NO! They don’t! You’re f’d up, ok- seek some help and open your eyes! And accusing someone you know NOTHING about, of being naive is just as stupid as your twisted mind. You’re bs is supposed to make you feel better and think it’s normal and everyone is the same way but you’re so far from the truth and out of touch with reality! It’s NOT normal- and NOT the truth! 🤷🏻♀️
The man killed a mother and a three month old baby and said”it crack me up” bro I’m in shock
Untill it happens to their family, then they cry for their mommas and whine about vengance. Hypocrites and scumbags.
"Crack me up" in that era meant something different than it does now. He was saying that it hurt him. During the First and Second World Wars, to "crack up" meant to lose control of your emotions and be temporarily unable to perform. He was probably trained by veterans who still used that terminology regularly.
Some of those guys looked like they enjoyed it and thats sad
this is still going on by the us nothing has changed
a lot enjoy it and more and more countries are just waiting for the cracks to show so they can unleash hell on americans
no one is going to be in any remorse whatsoever
I remember this happening and how shocked people were.
I served in Vietnam but the area where I was there wasn't any villages or civilians only hardcore NVA so you were fighting to stay alive.
me also...A 196th 198th LIB same time period. Killing babies though? Never saw such things.
@@arkybaldknobber8062still happened
but you lost the war
@@arkybaldknobber8062 you lost the war tho
@@juanshaftpatel7488 , they are still 19 yo kids and have to fight without support from their family and society. They are not soldier like japan or german troops during ww2. If it like win for nothing. Stop killing and return is to be better.
Those devils will never pay enough for theirs sins, this is why our country’s history write by blood
This is why many countries hate US!
Why is that? WHY USA policy very wicked and bloody???
.. and that's going on since a lot of Generations!!!
Every countries history is written in blood. These men paid for their sins in whatever way Heavenly Father willed them to pay.
@christopherallen8930 we cant let god do all the work
@@The.flower.club.pmc17 God!
After the massacre they were put on patrol for 2 stinking months ( wearing the one uniform ), just to get them out the way. Maybe the brass were hoping for a massacre of guys who may talk.
First time watching these interviews and I’ve probably watched nearly and I say this with my chest NEARLY EVERY SINGLE COMBAT VIDEO THERE IS TO WATCH, from WW2 to Ukraine on CZcams and the worst of the worst on best gore.. but These interviews right here touch a different type of nerve. To hear these guys so calmly and sometimes even happily talking about shooting innocent WOMEN and children in the back as they run away. Walking into another man’s humble abode and taking things then wonder why he’s following you shouting? To just shoot him.. I wasn’t there so I don’t know the situations and the real outcomes of these particular situations talked about in the interviews but how in ANY situation UNLESS THEY HAVE A WEAPON on them.. SHOOT ANYONE in the back? Let alone women and children.. genuinely baffles me. Can you imagine being the only one in the platoon or the battalion to talk about this to the higher ups? You’d find yourself buried alive in a foxhole or alone in a jungle wondering where everyone went.. and if that didn’t happen to you and you did make it home to have that on your mind.. just hearing the first person stories from you’re friends or comrades let alone seeing it or doing it yourself.. you wonder why so many of these guys couldn’t live with themselves and unfortunately committed suicide. When you round up the whole situation as a whole and look back all you can say is it is Fucking SAD and my condolences and my love from anyone and everyone affected by this war in whatever shape or form it comes in. Peace and blessings to all. I hope everyone has a beautiful Christmas with their friends and family. Nothing but LOVE❤
you will never undersetand unless you were in a war i think
There is nothing to understand. This is war. Shit happens.
The way these guys talk are so unbelievable, hypocritical, and insensitive...that they would talk about innocent people as if there nothing.
Nazis
Insanity. It was Incredible that this stuff happened all through history by all armies. But, these guys were American soldiers. Really sad time. They were trained and ordered to do this.
How insane and sad ... horror.
I went to high school with one of these men. He was just an all American kid then. Varnado Simpson committed suicide.
Well, so what you are saying the "all American kid" means a potential psychopathic mass murderer and rapist. That should make you question your sick society.
Rest in piss
This is what politicians do to people.
The horror and constant grind of war will make any human being capable of anything.......anything. This fact is as old as the first battle between men.
It seems mandatory now to thank veteran's for their service.America appears to be more militaristic and arrogant than ever The fact that they have never paid Vietnam reparations and supported the murderous Khmer rouge speaks volumes.
The people who killed in my lI should go to jail for life
@S The military obeys the orders of the CIVILIANS who control our government. If you have a problem with that, then take it up with those CIVILIANS.
@@truthseeker2321civilians didn't order search and destroy operations or tried to coverup gang rapes by soldiers?
@@truthseeker2321 the military obeys orders from the government, civilians only have illusions of control and or power. What these men did right or wrong is up to the individuals war is war you fight kill etc or you're excuted it's easy to condemn these men as well as it's easy to say that others won't do the same . It's human nature to be selfish sparing the lives of others you're at war with and the choice you're given is if you don't you will be killed is an easy choice self preservation rules all . This is the other side of humanity people always rejected.
@@jamesbennett5587 Last time I checked, our senate and house and the executive and judicial branches are made up of CIVILIANS. How hard is that to understand?
Says a lot about what military training at that time could acclimate a person to… how’s this any different from the massacre at Sand Creek, the Nazi invasion of Poland & Belarussia, or behavior of Japanese troops in Asia?
@@user-gt9pt2fk7dwarcrimes that likely like crimes in Vietnam will never go answered
@@Darunia_s Why are the war crimes of WW2 still being prosecuted, are the Vietnamese people lesser humans?. Soo very sad. I guess when you win a war, you can chase down all the soldiers (who i assume were also following orders) who did criminal acts and prosecute them. Nazis that killed a couple of innocents were hunted down. But soldiers who killed 500 plus are free to this day.
just an edit, the example of a soldier killing a couple of innocents, is meant as a comparison to soldiers who killed 500. It is not meant to include all the Nazi soldiers who wiped out huge numbers.
And there leaders got off which is an utter disgrace
Horrible ........
'Just following orders', a phrase used by the Nazi's too.
It is very easy to criticize and condemn when you are comfortable at home... I would like to see all those people in the same circumstances... if they are so kind to what is around them.
Valid point.
They’re going to hell Jesus.
In the long run, it would have been easier for themselves if they hadn't murdered people. Also people usually don't empathize with murderers, Cortez.
@@rseim100 spoken like a person whose country has never been trampled on since British
We can condemn when we see that they do not give a fuck that they killed innocent women and children. They may have “had to do it” to survive or whatever but to feel zero remorse is disgusting.
The Superior Superior will judge.
Had any of my men raped prisoners when I was active duty or torture civilian families I'd have gone to prison for shooting my own men.
Thankfully this behavior wasn't tolerated during my generation in the Army.
0:36 I don't know how true this is, but this man is said to have witnessed the events however did not part take in the Massacre itself.
Again I don't know if its true so dont quote me on it
you are right - he did not shoot anyone or rape anyone. the only guy who didnt here. he died at 59 in 2005.
I've seen interviews of soldiers involved in atrocities in the Vietnam war, and you know what?
I don't think any of them have a shred of remorse for what they have done, the guy in the car is like : what's all the fuss about it ? I didn't think there would be so much publicity, these kind of things were going down all the time...
Truly shocking.
Like 30+% of these "gentlemen" ended up homeless. Being ordered to carry out war crimes surely takes a toll on one's mind, no wonder they end up dysfunctional.
30% of who?
@@SandfordSmythe Well around 10% of all veterans end up homeless at some point, and that number only goes up with the "type" of combat you took part in. 18 year old's forced to commit genocide had a very high chance of having mental health issues and many became homeless due to it.
@@andrewjensen8189 The statistics become complicated on this. I've seen different reports. I'm going to do research on this.
They should have been locked up
Monsters. Some even grinning as they recall the event.
It’s most likely a coping mechanism, but it could be the person is just evil. When normal people are pushed to this, it breaks them.
That could be Me are you some day
@@bhbxgoclran2174 Never.
What a bunch of monsters.. again we hear. (We we’re just following orders.)
Adolf Eichmann used that phrase "I was just following orders" as excuse
No they are just humans stressed to the absolute max with combat duty. We all have a breaking point. Not condoning their actions- but the villagers new where mines were, where ambushes were set up etc. They were stuck between us and vc. They committed murder- it goes on everywhere. Like the vc nva executing our wounded. Will you leave the same message on their videos?
@forwardobserver6441 dawg they raped and pillaged for 2-4 hours killing 504 civilians... No one had enough spine to say we need to stop after the 100th death??? Why did it take mutiny from a hell bird to get the troops to stand down?
I have to admire you, I've rarely seen anyone display moral cowardice, dressed up in whataboutism to this degree. @@forwardobserver6441
@@forwardobserver6441 simpleton logic
The Horror......The Horror.....
💔 😭
My Gunnery sergeant once told me, " Sgt. Spende one thing your going to find out in war is how brutal an all American boy can be"! I told him like my dad before me told his commander, I did not sign up for this"! This entire Company will be facing God I hate to be them! Burning in HELL! For all Aternity. There are rules even in war time. My dad told me he and his unit had to deliver supplies at an Army base near Chew lie. He said when they got there. American soldiers were smoking and shooting dope smoking urb. High as HELL! The base looked terrible like I one was keeping the base up to code! My dad told me he got back to his fire base and told his Captain about this Army base.
Your dad sounds like a real pu$$y
you lost the war
@@copperridgegrow3940... some kind of clerk/truck driver
Wonder if any of these guys are still alive
The psychological effect of booby traps and mines PLUS the knowledge that 'friendly' villagers are involved PLUS the regular sniper victims must be a tremendous burden.
It's amazing there wasn't more massacres. I think it was orders from above that proved to be the final straw or final ingredient that caused this to happen.
Vietnam was an awful place of booby traps, mines, vc dressed and hidden amongst villagers, the strain on a 20yr kid must have been incredible. The suicide rates after the war speaks for itself.
Why were USA there in the first place ?
@@Adam-im3uz ask the French
Sounds like you think it was the "messed up" defensive tactics which caused American boys to commit war crimes, when it was the Americans who were the attackers.
@@andrewjensen8189 yup dude is sneakily tryna absolve the criminals. The reality is that some of the guys at my lai were just at the wrong place at the wrong time and got involved in something they normally would not have.. and then on the other hand you had many guys who enoyed and took pleasure in what they did. Varnado seemed truly remorseful and accepting of his role in the crime. and that 1 other guy who didnt shoot anyone but found those bodies in the bomb crater seemed to be a decent lad. The other 2 guys talking about "target practice" and "never thinking of that day again" are something else.
This helps to explain, but it does absolve the behavior.
How do u do this and then live with yourself?
11:58 I can't believe what I am hearing.
Oliver..thats when normal people turning into monsters.
Read ...Lt. Calley His Own Story
Those murderers baby killers and innocent people look so proud recalling the even
It's so easy to be evil...
And it's still happening to this day
I feel when men are under fire day in day out, they see their friends get blown to bits, it turns men into something that they cannot control. We cannot judge because most of us have never been in this situation. I’m not condoning this massacre by any means, I’m just saying we will never get it.
Stop justifying mass rape and killing please.
no honor. period. some people had and served with honor like the helicopter pilot. but these people, no honor. disrespected your humanity, your country, your oath... sad criminal and shameful. history is filled with men serving with honor. if you don't have the balls to disobey such orders, then you are as bad and dishonorable as the assholes that gave the order.
Some messed up shit
Look Varnado Simpson and watch his story about being @ My Lai.
what shame. i was in the marines and we would give our sea rats to the kids. i always felt sorry for them.
Pure evil...they talk about it like it was nothing with no feelings of remorse...how can anyone in the right mind go on and live knowing you killed innocent women, children and babies...so sad
Were you in nam???
@@gwl6258 yes
How can you judge people when you have No Clue. Zero
@@playinragz8183 sounds like you have no clue...i sense you lack intelligence
@@emaguigad you lost the war
WTF about 6:45 into the video a cockroach runs across the screen. Also my name is Varnado. Sometimes I think I’m in the twilight zone.
The Viet Cong battalion they were going after was apparently on the other side of the province. Wrong intel.
......on the other side and laughing .
I recognise the guy in the yellow shirt from Thunderbirds.
these are the same people that point fingers to Russia
at 6:51 A RAT SCURRIES right behind the guy talking about the beginning of the killing...it seems as if these guys left their souls behind them in My Lai or they never developed their souls prior...in any case this is murder...God forgive them
Varnado Simpson Died May 4, 1997 (aged 48)
Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Cause of death Suicide by gunshot
Good
Sad !
I think this kind of thing happened fairly often in Vietnam, but I don't think most of them were as bad as My Lai. It is a stain on American honor. I doubt if special operations units did that too, because they had more discipline. But the worst thing we did in that war was "Operation Rolling Thunder", the bombing campaign we conducted in Vietnam. It was the largest bombing campaign in history, and we killed a lot of people.
Paul Meadlow isnt in this clip
“Good job! Get you a case of beer for that one.”
11:30 he's lying. He's in a different video, looking a lot rougher, describing what he did. He describes it in graphic detail
Did anyone else notice the extra rat in the picture, as if there weren't enough being interviewed?
I can see the stressors, but this does not absolve the guilt. I think it was soft-pedaled by the Army because of the guilt of the Command leadership here. Guilt in executing the mission, and the guilt of condoning this kind of behavior all along. If it was made known down to the platoon level that this was wrong, maybe this would not have happened.
You can blame the company commander, the platoon leaders, platoon Sergeants, and every other NCO- they were the professional soldiers, and at least one platoon Sergeant that I can remember reading about, was the oldest of all of them, and had battlefield experience dating back to the Normandy invasion. They all knew that it was a war crime to wantonly kill unarmed men, women and children, and not one of them tried to prevent it.
Captain Medina and his junior officers, and the NCOs under him should have been court martialed and executed for this mass murder.
Just like they did in the late 1890's somewhere in south east asia. They massacred 100% civilians.
A dramatic failure of the officers to exert control of their troops
That statement shows your lacking knowledge of Vietnam in general.
16:44 GROSS
and the same again in iraq...
is it really you or me if you are upagainst women and children....
Gary garfolo is my dads cousin
Is he still around? If so, I would be interested in interviewing him and talking about our organization, Veterans For Peace. Thanks.
New American nazis, same theme revised and re-edited.Sleepless nights and night Mayers. Following orders no conscience, and its a shame, you still have this on an on.
One soldier shot himself in the foot to get out shooting the villagers
Murder
Simpson was the only one involved that paid for his crimes. And he was his own punisher. He must have lived a tortuous existence of guilt, especially after seeing the state of him in a later interview. Not excusing his actions at all, but the only one with a shred of a conscience. I'd say he paid unlike the others.
no matter how many conventions or laws are established. In times of war these allways go out the window. I'm pretty sure there has been some war crimes in Ukraine too or in syria.
Need interview with commanding officer, Colin Powell.
6:45 anybody else see the rat?
12:00 "They don't care if they live or die." Excuse me, what?
I'd like to know if he learned that from his community or unit. Maybe both?
As a kid they are not wise enough to make difference between living in wide roads united states and villages and trails in vietnam.
The thin black dude in the blue suit is older in the other vid. It has to be seen to be believed.
When I was in, there were lots of guys, we called them bullshitters, who would make up shit just to feel special. Can't say for sure, but it would be interesting to see the interviews on the cutting room floor from this antiwar organization. I'm glad it's not on my conscience, but I'm not going to condemn it out of hand. These guys had good reason to hate the Vietnamese in their minds.
The crimes US troops committed at My Lai are well documented by the Army's investigation into the massacre. It documents rape, mutilation of bodies and murder of women and children...
@Randy_Richmond This is why the bias of the media can't be forgiven. Vietnam was divided into 2 polities, north and south, in 1540, not 1955. The Nguyen (south) and Tranh (north) fought 20 major wars until the French took over. Neither side wanted to reunite, they wanted to conquer the other. We were there at the INVITATION of the South Vietnamese government, who were overmatched because of the Chinese and Russian involvement.
WW2 we killed 100s of thousands of unarmed folks
Better to not go to war
Pure evil. Gland these people received a well deserved hate.
My Lai was nothing compared to what US done in Iraq & Afghanistan.
We never killed 500 innocent civilians at once in Iraq or Afghanistan… in fact guys from one of my old units killed 3 civilians and my DIVISION got banned from the middle east Maywand District murders
How’s that?
The fact that theres a comparison is so sad and says a lot about the US military more than anything. AND the US even lost both Vietnam and Afghanistan. What a waste of human lives and trillions of tax dollars. Prayers for all victims of ALL wars.
It's a method called Free Fire Zone...taking the water around the fish
Criminal.
The American way...Lord forgive.
They were ordered to do this
It’s war and hell