It’s a very hard day here for me; I’ve been down for the past two days. I’m sure you were informed from the officers, and I know you and Dad are taking this hard as well, but I wanted to tell you how Dale died for I was there with him.
Well on March 17th Dale and I where on a search and destroy mission. Everyone here was angry about the Tet Offensive and we where wondering if we could trust the South Vietnamese in South Vietnam because there were so many VC soldiers in the south some had to of been housed in near by villages. With this most patuness where ordered to go to go around to different villages to search for VC soldier and destroy them.
Quite similar to the teherable massacre in My Lai. A squad of Army soldiers marched into this village My Lai, and the soldiers where told that the South Vietnamese were housing VC soldiers. They claim that they were suppose to do a full search and destroy by killing all and burning down the village with no survivors. What these men did were offal actions and I don’t believe it was fully their flat but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be pentilized. I mean they killed all men, women, children including babies They calimed they where following orders and told they were all VC, but everyone has susspions to what the real truth was. …show more content…
Once this hits the media I know people are going to see the war differently, people aren’t goanna support us no more and see us as monsters. Their goanna see the harsh and cruel reality of the
Well on March 17th Dale and I where on a search and destroy mission. Everyone here was angry about the Tet Offensive and we where wondering if we could trust the South Vietnamese in South Vietnam because there were so many VC soldiers in the south some had to of been housed in near by villages. With this most patuness where ordered to go to go around to different villages to search for VC soldier and destroy them.
Quite similar to the teherable massacre in My Lai. A squad of Army soldiers marched into this village My Lai, and the soldiers where told that the South Vietnamese were housing VC soldiers. They claim that they were suppose to do a full search and destroy by killing all and burning down the village with no survivors. What these men did were offal actions and I don’t believe it was fully their flat but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be pentilized. I mean they killed all men, women, children including babies They calimed they where following orders and told they were all VC, but everyone has susspions to what the real truth was. …show more content…
Once this hits the media I know people are going to see the war differently, people aren’t goanna support us no more and see us as monsters. Their goanna see the harsh and cruel reality of the