No More War! - At the slightest suggestion of an enemy presence, civilians were regularly shot, women were routinely raped, and the soldiers stole what they wanted from the villagers...Women were gang raped, sodomized, and then murdered. According to Bilton and Sim, one woman was killed when a gun was thrust into her vagina and then fired. Vietnamese were beaten with fists and rifle butts, tortured, and bayoneted. Some were scalped. Still others had "C Company" or the figure of the ace-of-spades cut onto their chests. Lieutenant Calley did nothing to stop the depredations. Lieutenant Stephen Brooks, commanding the 2nd Platoon, did nothing to stop the massacre--indeed, like Calley, he often joined his men...A clutch of old women and children were herded together and shot. Another 80 villagers were brought to an open area where Lieutenant Calley told the soldiers, "You know what I want you to do with them," and walked away. Returning several minutes later, he found the villagers still standing about. He shouted to the men guarding them, "I want them dead. . . . Waste them." Calley, Private Paul Meadlo, and radioman Charles Sledge opened fire.. (October 17, 2004) - * Gooks, Slants, Slope heads and Dinks were easy epithets.. http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/MyLaiMassacre Hank Roth War Veteran Vietnam Middle-East (Yom Kipper) ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================== 4 Portals - 2 News Wikis - 2 Conferences -- No More BuSHIT! It all starts here: - http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ============================================================== All mail over 35k is automatically trashed to dev/null .. All headers are logged and abusers nailed. ---g0lem PNEWS-L at StJohns University now also subscribe at: pnews-list-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx RHETORIC at StJohns University now also subscribe at: rhetoric-list-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \\\||// (@ @) ooO_(_)_Ooo______________________________________ |______|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| |___|____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|____|____| |_____|_____| mailto:webmaster@xxxxxxxxx |___|___| You may unsubscribe at any time by sending an email to 3rdmilsocialism-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or going to //www.freelists.org/lists.html. And navigating to 3rdmilsocialism via the left hand list.