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put italicized text here Quoted TextAmazing, how many two cent inputs on this topic!
DJ
PS-- we kicked their butts!
No, you killed a lot of people, civilians and soldiers alike (this last includes your own allies and even your own troops), but you still lost.
And that's just gone up to a buck...
and easy statment to make while setting home drinking tea; sir.
I spent 14 month and 21 days in I-Corps. Went thru the 1968 Tet offensive, the summer offensive, the late summer offensive as well as the fall offensive. Never fired a shot at a civilian that didn't need it. Never saw anyone else do that either, but often saw the works done by the local VC doing that.
I was never easy on the otherguy, but that was the plan. He was never easy on me as well, and of course that was his plan. I think if you really had a clue you'd already know that 90% of civilians killed were killed by people of their own race, and a large segment of them were local VC in the first place. We delt with NVA regulars 90% of the time and ate his lunch everytime we met.
Viet Cong loved to use flame throwers and hand grenades in villages collecting taxes (where do you think they got 98% of their food stuffs?), and impressing young men into their evil doings.
gary