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The media wants to
capitalize, I think, on all these veterans getting together and
testifying on all of these atrocities. You know, we want to get into
the atrocities, but we also want to get in to what are we doing over
there in the first place. How do these atrocities get to be committed?
They just don't happen. There's a whole thing of how they tell you that
the people over there aren't really people.
One guy hasn't just
been doing -- it's pretty much been established policy.
If one dude got up
and rapped all this shit, they'd hang him. But they can't deny the
testimony of all these dudes in the room.
JOSEPH BANGERT: The
first day I got to Vietnam I landed in Da Nang Air Base. From Da Nang
Air Base I took a plane to Dong Ha. I got off the plane and hitchhiked
on Highway 1 to my unit.
I was picked up by a
truckload of grunt Marines with two company grade officers, 1st
Lieutenants. We were about 5 miles down the road, where there were
some Vietnamese children at the gateway of the village, and they gave
the old finger gesture at us. It was understandable that they picked
this up from the GIs there.
They stopped
the trucks -- they didn't stop the truck, they slowed down a little bit,
and it was just like response, the guys got up, including the
lieutenants, and just blew all the kids away.
There were about five or six kids blown
away, and then the truck just continued down the hill. That was my first
day in Vietnam.
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