My Lai, 50 years ago today

If only it could be forgotten. Amazing how so many other attrocities escape collective memory, though. Even to bring up America's misdoings brings howls of accusation that one is anti-American.
 
there have been atrocities/massacres in just about every war
the problem here is Calley was let off easy--as were the COs/etc

I don't blame them for acting ''human'' during the war...it was like a mob and when a mob gets out of control, they are capable of bad things
 
If only it could be forgotten. Amazing how so many other attrocities escape collective memory, though. Even to bring up America's misdoings brings howls of accusation that one is anti-American.
the only ones who would accuse like that are those who are not thinking in terms of reality
those who do not study/read/etc wars
..we should never have been in that war
 
If only it could be forgotten. Amazing how so many other attrocities escape collective memory, though. Even to bring up America's misdoings brings howls of accusation that one is anti-American.
the only ones who would accuse like that are those who are not thinking in terms of reality
those who do not study/read/etc wars
..we should never have been in that war

You know this would make for a good thread on its own.

The Military (Govt) has always taken into account the affects of
War on people. Especially the 19 and 20-year olds.

Even the Bergdahl crap you could see coming. I haven't ever researched
the members of a Military Court, but the one's that I have seen, you see many of them wearing the Combat Infantry Badge. They know what it is
like and they know that not everybody can deal with that stuff in a sane
way. If, for no other reason than, war, itself, is insane.

The findings of a court martial are usually in line, but the actual carrying out
the sentence, eventually will be waived or altered. (After it is out of Public
View).

Calley wound up being the only one convicted and sentenced to Life in Prison. Her served a little more than 3 years under House Arrest and either
the Secretary of the Army or The Secretary of Defense commuted his sentence.

While some want to bad mouth, it should be noted that an American Chopper
crew stopped that massacre that day. And they were the one's that reported
it.

There has been a My Lai, or something similar in every war we have ever fought. You put kids that haven't even reached the age of maturity into a
situation where their friends are being killed and they, themselves realize
they could be dead in the next second...bad things are gonna happen. People are going to seek revenge. And that's the things we know about.
The Battlefield is like Vegas. What goes on there...stays there.

You don't fight for God and Country and the Flag. You fight to survive.
If you come back home, you were successful and you don't give a shit
what you had to do to survive.
 
REMEMBER IT

Of course I do! I also remember the thousands of similar atrocities conducted by the NVA and Cong on villages accused of sympathizing with the US and allies that our press never covered.

Of course. That was standard. Support the slopes, piss on the Americans.
It was cool to be anti-American and cheer the death of young American kids.

Bad times.
 
REMEMBER IT

Of course I do! I also remember the thousands of similar atrocities conducted by the NVA and Cong on villages accused of sympathizing with the US and allies that our press never covered.

Indeed. I also remember it was American Airborne soldiers who stopped Calley in the middle of his murders, a Fun Fact the communist sympathizers and assorted deviants make a point of not mentioning when they bring it up.
 
REMEMBER IT

Of course I do! I also remember the thousands of similar atrocities conducted by the NVA and Cong on villages accused of sympathizing with the US and allies that our press never covered.

Of course. That was standard. Support the slopes, piss on the Americans.
It was cool to be anti-American and cheer the death of young American kids.

Bad times.

The hate franchise has branched out; now they want to kill police, firefighters, paramedics, etc., and anybody white.

Parasites eventually kill their host and then die themselves.
 
If only it could be forgotten. Amazing how so many other attrocities escape collective memory, though. Even to bring up America's misdoings brings howls of accusation that one is anti-American.
the only ones who would accuse like that are those who are not thinking in terms of reality
those who do not study/read/etc wars
..we should never have been in that war

You know this would make for a good thread on its own.

The Military (Govt) has always taken into account the affects of
War on people. Especially the 19 and 20-year olds.

Even the Bergdahl crap you could see coming. I haven't ever researched
the members of a Military Court, but the one's that I have seen, you see many of them wearing the Combat Infantry Badge. They know what it is
like and they know that not everybody can deal with that stuff in a sane
way. If, for no other reason than, war, itself, is insane.

The findings of a court martial are usually in line, but the actual carrying out
the sentence, eventually will be waived or altered. (After it is out of Public
View).

Calley wound up being the only one convicted and sentenced to Life in Prison. Her served a little more than 3 years under House Arrest and either
the Secretary of the Army or The Secretary of Defense commuted his sentence.

While some want to bad mouth, it should be noted that an American Chopper
crew stopped that massacre that day. And they were the one's that reported
it.

There has been a My Lai, or something similar in every war we have ever fought. You put kids that haven't even reached the age of maturity into a
situation where their friends are being killed and they, themselves realize
they could be dead in the next second...bad things are gonna happen. People are going to seek revenge. And that's the things we know about.
The Battlefield is like Vegas. What goes on there...stays there.

You don't fight for God and Country and the Flag. You fight to survive.
If you come back home, you were successful and you don't give a shit
what you had to do to survive.
it's still a war crime and they deserve punishment
 
REMEMBER IT
I can remember way more just like it as that was the modes operandi for the war up to then. Used to have pics of the VC with their heads cut off in the hands of GI's standing above the bodies proving the kill. Had to destroy them when Calley got arrested.
 
REMEMBER IT
I can remember way more just like it as that was the modes operandi for the war up to then. Used to have pics of the VC with their heads cut off in the hands of GI's standing above the bodies proving the kill. Had to destroy them when Calley got arrested.

Have any posts deploring anybody else for their atrocities, or are you just here to snivel about Americans? I'm betting you have no posts deploring anybody else's atrocities, and you're just another commie sympathizer and Sniveling Burb Brat.
 
If only it could be forgotten. Amazing how so many other attrocities escape collective memory, though. Even to bring up America's misdoings brings howls of accusation that one is anti-American.
the only ones who would accuse like that are those who are not thinking in terms of reality
those who do not study/read/etc wars
..we should never have been in that war

You know this would make for a good thread on its own.

The Military (Govt) has always taken into account the affects of
War on people. Especially the 19 and 20-year olds.

Even the Bergdahl crap you could see coming. I haven't ever researched
the members of a Military Court, but the one's that I have seen, you see many of them wearing the Combat Infantry Badge. They know what it is
like and they know that not everybody can deal with that stuff in a sane
way. If, for no other reason than, war, itself, is insane.

The findings of a court martial are usually in line, but the actual carrying out
the sentence, eventually will be waived or altered. (After it is out of Public
View).

Calley wound up being the only one convicted and sentenced to Life in Prison. Her served a little more than 3 years under House Arrest and either
the Secretary of the Army or The Secretary of Defense commuted his sentence.

While some want to bad mouth, it should be noted that an American Chopper
crew stopped that massacre that day. And they were the one's that reported
it.

There has been a My Lai, or something similar in every war we have ever fought. You put kids that haven't even reached the age of maturity into a
situation where their friends are being killed and they, themselves realize
they could be dead in the next second...bad things are gonna happen. People are going to seek revenge. And that's the things we know about.
The Battlefield is like Vegas. What goes on there...stays there.

You don't fight for God and Country and the Flag. You fight to survive.
If you come back home, you were successful and you don't give a shit
what you had to do to survive.
it's still a war crime and they deserve punishment

He was punished.

He was sentenced to life in prison and got 3 1/2 years of House Arrest.
(Three years too many)
 
If only it could be forgotten. Amazing how so many other attrocities escape collective memory, though. Even to bring up America's misdoings brings howls of accusation that one is anti-American.
the only ones who would accuse like that are those who are not thinking in terms of reality
those who do not study/read/etc wars
..we should never have been in that war

You know this would make for a good thread on its own.

The Military (Govt) has always taken into account the affects of
War on people. Especially the 19 and 20-year olds.

Even the Bergdahl crap you could see coming. I haven't ever researched
the members of a Military Court, but the one's that I have seen, you see many of them wearing the Combat Infantry Badge. They know what it is
like and they know that not everybody can deal with that stuff in a sane
way. If, for no other reason than, war, itself, is insane.

The findings of a court martial are usually in line, but the actual carrying out
the sentence, eventually will be waived or altered. (After it is out of Public
View).

Calley wound up being the only one convicted and sentenced to Life in Prison. Her served a little more than 3 years under House Arrest and either
the Secretary of the Army or The Secretary of Defense commuted his sentence.

While some want to bad mouth, it should be noted that an American Chopper
crew stopped that massacre that day. And they were the one's that reported
it.

There has been a My Lai, or something similar in every war we have ever fought. You put kids that haven't even reached the age of maturity into a
situation where their friends are being killed and they, themselves realize
they could be dead in the next second...bad things are gonna happen. People are going to seek revenge. And that's the things we know about.
The Battlefield is like Vegas. What goes on there...stays there.

You don't fight for God and Country and the Flag. You fight to survive.
If you come back home, you were successful and you don't give a shit
what you had to do to survive.
it's still a war crime and they deserve punishment

He was punished.

He was sentenced to life in prison and got 3 1/2 years of House Arrest.
(Three years too many)
that's not being punished..he should've served 20 to life
what if that was your family?
it was a war crime....
 
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If only it could be forgotten. Amazing how so many other attrocities escape collective memory, though. Even to bring up America's misdoings brings howls of accusation that one is anti-American.
the only ones who would accuse like that are those who are not thinking in terms of reality
those who do not study/read/etc wars
..we should never have been in that war

You know this would make for a good thread on its own.

The Military (Govt) has always taken into account the affects of
War on people. Especially the 19 and 20-year olds.

Even the Bergdahl crap you could see coming. I haven't ever researched
the members of a Military Court, but the one's that I have seen, you see many of them wearing the Combat Infantry Badge. They know what it is
like and they know that not everybody can deal with that stuff in a sane
way. If, for no other reason than, war, itself, is insane.

The findings of a court martial are usually in line, but the actual carrying out
the sentence, eventually will be waived or altered. (After it is out of Public
View).

Calley wound up being the only one convicted and sentenced to Life in Prison. Her served a little more than 3 years under House Arrest and either
the Secretary of the Army or The Secretary of Defense commuted his sentence.

While some want to bad mouth, it should be noted that an American Chopper
crew stopped that massacre that day. And they were the one's that reported
it.

There has been a My Lai, or something similar in every war we have ever fought. You put kids that haven't even reached the age of maturity into a
situation where their friends are being killed and they, themselves realize
they could be dead in the next second...bad things are gonna happen. People are going to seek revenge. And that's the things we know about.
The Battlefield is like Vegas. What goes on there...stays there.

You don't fight for God and Country and the Flag. You fight to survive.
If you come back home, you were successful and you don't give a shit
what you had to do to survive.
it's still a war crime and they deserve punishment

He was punished.

He was sentenced to life in prison and got 3 1/2 years of House Arrest.
(Three years too many)
..so you could say a lot of murderers should get off for various reasons--like the Florida school shooter:
..poor kid
no mother-no father
adopted
mental problems
he should get house arrest for 3.5 years
etc
 
If only it could be forgotten. Amazing how so many other attrocities escape collective memory, though. Even to bring up America's misdoings brings howls of accusation that one is anti-American.
the only ones who would accuse like that are those who are not thinking in terms of reality
those who do not study/read/etc wars
..we should never have been in that war

You know this would make for a good thread on its own.

The Military (Govt) has always taken into account the affects of
War on people. Especially the 19 and 20-year olds.

Even the Bergdahl crap you could see coming. I haven't ever researched
the members of a Military Court, but the one's that I have seen, you see many of them wearing the Combat Infantry Badge. They know what it is
like and they know that not everybody can deal with that stuff in a sane
way. If, for no other reason than, war, itself, is insane.

The findings of a court martial are usually in line, but the actual carrying out
the sentence, eventually will be waived or altered. (After it is out of Public
View).

Calley wound up being the only one convicted and sentenced to Life in Prison. Her served a little more than 3 years under House Arrest and either
the Secretary of the Army or The Secretary of Defense commuted his sentence.

While some want to bad mouth, it should be noted that an American Chopper
crew stopped that massacre that day. And they were the one's that reported
it.

There has been a My Lai, or something similar in every war we have ever fought. You put kids that haven't even reached the age of maturity into a
situation where their friends are being killed and they, themselves realize
they could be dead in the next second...bad things are gonna happen. People are going to seek revenge. And that's the things we know about.
The Battlefield is like Vegas. What goes on there...stays there.

You don't fight for God and Country and the Flag. You fight to survive.
If you come back home, you were successful and you don't give a shit
what you had to do to survive.
it's still a war crime and they deserve punishment

He was punished.

He was sentenced to life in prison and got 3 1/2 years of House Arrest.
(Three years too many)
..so you could say a lot of murderers should get off for various reasons--like the Florida school shooter:
..poor kid
no mother-no father
adopted
mental problems
he should get house arrest for 3.5 years
etc

Calley was in a war asshole.

Take your lame liberal rhetoric and stick them up your ass.
 
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hitler also murdered innocents
I guess we should've given him and the Germans responsible 3.5 years
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the only ones who would accuse like that are those who are not thinking in terms of reality
those who do not study/read/etc wars
..we should never have been in that war

You know this would make for a good thread on its own.

The Military (Govt) has always taken into account the affects of
War on people. Especially the 19 and 20-year olds.

Even the Bergdahl crap you could see coming. I haven't ever researched
the members of a Military Court, but the one's that I have seen, you see many of them wearing the Combat Infantry Badge. They know what it is
like and they know that not everybody can deal with that stuff in a sane
way. If, for no other reason than, war, itself, is insane.

The findings of a court martial are usually in line, but the actual carrying out
the sentence, eventually will be waived or altered. (After it is out of Public
View).

Calley wound up being the only one convicted and sentenced to Life in Prison. Her served a little more than 3 years under House Arrest and either
the Secretary of the Army or The Secretary of Defense commuted his sentence.

While some want to bad mouth, it should be noted that an American Chopper
crew stopped that massacre that day. And they were the one's that reported
it.

There has been a My Lai, or something similar in every war we have ever fought. You put kids that haven't even reached the age of maturity into a
situation where their friends are being killed and they, themselves realize
they could be dead in the next second...bad things are gonna happen. People are going to seek revenge. And that's the things we know about.
The Battlefield is like Vegas. What goes on there...stays there.

You don't fight for God and Country and the Flag. You fight to survive.
If you come back home, you were successful and you don't give a shit
what you had to do to survive.
it's still a war crime and they deserve punishment

He was punished.

He was sentenced to life in prison and got 3 1/2 years of House Arrest.
(Three years too many)
..so you could say a lot of murderers should get off for various reasons--like the Florida school shooter:
..poor kid
no mother-no father
adopted
mental problems
he should get house arrest for 3.5 years
etc

Calley was in a war asshole.

Take your lame liberal rhetoric and stick them up your ass.
liberal?? I'm far from liberal
we should never have been in that ''war''
and I'm a vet
 

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