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"What should parents tell their children about the Vietnam war. This is a time of high patriotism in this country, and the questions are flowing. My Lai is too gruseome a tale for a 10 year old, but then again telling stories about war is not supposed to be sterile and benign. Very simple; tell them the truth, good, bad and anything in between and don't sugarcoat it. Oh, and don't underestimate the resiliance of a ten year old." ProudVietnamVeteran@earthlink.net |
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"Let us not lose sight of what actually happened. In this particular 'conflict', at least 3 million people died,over 58,000 of whom were Americans. These 3 million people died crushed in the mud, riddled with shrapnel, hurled out of helicopters, impaled on sharpened bamboo, obliterated in carpets of explosives dropped from bombers flying so high they could only be heard and never seen; they died reduced to chunks by one or more land mines, finished off by a round through the temple or a bayonet in the throat, consumed by sizzling phosphorus, burned alive with jellied gasoline, strung up by their thumbs, starved in cages, executed after watching their babies die, trapped on the barbed wire calling for their mothers. They died while trying to kill, they died while trying to kill no one, they died heroes, they died villains, they died at random, they died most often when someone who had no idea who they were, killed them under the orders of someone who had even less idea than that. Some of the dead were sent home to their families, some were reduced to such indistinguishable pulp that they could not be recovered. All 3 million died in pain, often so intense that death was a relief. They all left someone behind. They all became markers visited by those who needed to remember and not forget. The loss was enormous, and 'conflict' is no way to account for it.It was a 'WAR' |
