Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player.J.K. Jarod helps clear the name of a soldier accused of selling information to the enemy during the Vietnam War, and Miss Parker finally opens the present her mother gave her on the day she died. Here are his words once again:The Americans came to Vietnam to conduct a war, and kill Vietnamese people. Their bodies were mangled. The entire war in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos was one of the greatest Lies in American history. There is no such thing as Collateral Damage. I was still struck that I’d never connected the Democratic National Convention demonstrations to the assault on our bus. It took me years to realize that I was dead wrong. I vividly recalled the first time I’d seen that sign—a bandaged, confused kid on an egg-splattered gray bus.My long and surreal journey home began immediately, on a medevac chopper lifting off from a helo-decked troop carrier. It is a powerful document to begin to understand the atrocities that the United States Government committed everyday during the Vietnam War. The boys had been playing on the road when the Americans came through, and shot them.You do not bring the enemy to the peace table by just killing military combatants. I stayed there until 1975. Some died on the spot, and others died later.Like Burns and Novick, I spoke with military men and women, Americans and Vietnamese. This was probably the number one Lie of the Vietnam War, other than the manufactured “Domino Theory” Lie that got us into Vietnam in the first place.You may speak now, as there is an audience who wants to hear your truth:The war ended fifteen years ago in victory for our people, but the country remains devastated.
Three people died in my family. My younger brother was killed. The dictionary definition is "unintended civilian casualties or damage in a war," which is about as anodyne a description as one could imagine. The Cambodian peasants were so enraged they joined the Khmer Rouge, who eventually was responsible for a reign of terror that killed over a million people.I was caught twice, in 1969 and 1972, for helping the revolutionary forces. The dikes were bombed in seventy-one places–they were very important for flood control. I was beaten and tortured with electricity. Secretary of State Dulles wanted to use the hydrogen bomb on Dien Bien Phu in 1954, but the British didn’t agree with it. My uncle was killed like that, being dragged by the neck. These were Americans from the Fifth Regiment of the Marine Forces.During the twelve days of bombing over Hanoi at Christmastime 1972, 2,027 people were killed, 263 missing, 1,355 wounded. If one does the math, and the reels spin only once a day, that’s thousands of replays. The Americans pushed them into the ditch and then they shot them. Like Burns and Novick, I thought I could learn “what happened” from them. Here are the results of the U.S. spraying the virulently poisonous chemical Agent Orange over these countries. The U.S. Antiwar protesters blocked the street, in front and behind the bus. The bus slowed and a ripple of noise washed over us. They owe us, for the next generation.The South Koreans were especially brutal. Đà Lạt vegetable prices shoot up, HCM City suffers collateral damage have 322 words, post on vietnamnews.vn at July 28, 2020. Don’t the American people even know why?In 1965, I was a small child. Blood came out of my vagina. The Americans killed a generation.
The old ones didn’t want to go, and so the soldiers would tie ropes around their necks and drag them. One has to stay in the room, and hear every detail, even if your core belief system is mauled. They cut off her hands and legs, and threw her in the river. So I decided to return to the scene. He never had to walk around and collect body parts from his loved ones. You remember the massacre at My Lai, in Quang Ngai Province. We say that victory cannot match our suffering. The United States had no more right to bomb those three countries than they had the right to bomb Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines.Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist.In seeking to answer that question, I realized I needed to reexamine what exactly did happen that day on the bus four decades earlier that still haunted me. In these pages are the Vietnamese and Cambodians that American tourists never see or hear about. A literal examination of this phrase is instructive. Jarod helps clear the name of a soldier accused of selling information to the enemy during the Vietnam War, and Miss Parker finally opens the present her mother gave her on the day she died. Many people were injured and entire families were wiped out–from the youngest to the oldest. Collateral Damage. Then the Americans started shelling from the helicopters, and then the soldiers ran out onto the fields. Early US war, 1955–1965.