There is no such thing as Collateral Damage. The first group of Americans came in and shot the people, and they killed the buffaloes and cows. As they gained courage, they began hitting the bus windows with clubs, fists and protest signs, yelling obscenities and lies. In Vietnam, the use of napalm was introduced first by the French and later by their US successors, who used it extensively, often causing a lot of collateral damage due to the fact that the fire, once released, was almost impossible to contain. At night they put electricity inside my body and they beat me. Combatants are not the main participants in modern war. Many people were injured and entire families were wiped out–from the youngest to the oldest. 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. After all, the United States sent their troops over here with the intent to destroy all, burn all, and kill all.
Secretary of State Dulles wanted to use the hydrogen bomb on Dien Bien Phu in 1954, but the British didn’t agree with it. 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. The Americans would cut off the hair of the older people. But, after retiring in May 2001, I realized I must tell my Vietnam stories before I too was gone. The French colonial government set up a system of censorship, but correspondents traveled to Singapore or Hong Kong to file their reports without constraint.. In common usage, "collateral" is something we put up to… They put electricity in my vagina, on my nipples, in my ears, in my nose, on my fingers. This strategy is as old as warfare itself. They lived here, and worked their whole lives here. When I was injured by a fragmentation bomb, an American helicopter took me to the hospital in Da Nang where they operated on my eye. ... is what they’ve had to do and see over in Vietnam, the beloved comrades they lost in the war, those soul-crushing moments in which they lost their innocence. The Americans killed a generation.
There were different kinds of fragmentation bombs, some the size of a fist. I was sprayed with shrapnel, my ears were damaged, and my eyes severely burned.Hollowness filled my chest when I realized the truth of what happened that day—that we, wounded soldiers returning from Vietnam, were not the protesters’ real target. The camp was terrible–very bad conditions.