An American Massacre Essay

Massacres, genocides, holocaust what do these three things have in common? They are all deemed inhumane, immoral, and horrifying by American cultures. So, if this is a shared opinion how could American soldiers, generals, and sergeants br the main assailants of these acts of horror? Many acclaimed they were only following orders. But, this was more than a mission against the Viet Cong, this was hatred, frustration, anguish. If the soldiers were just doing as they were told, even if they’re enemy was all of the villagers in total, what type of training is given to incoming solider on how to scalping individuals, cut off hands and feet as well as raping women as young as 14 years old? What type of protocol is given when your enemy is a child
If these men were able to seem the injustice and atrocities of the situation and abstain from involvement what lead the others to actions? The answer is simple, peer pressure, prejudice, and fear. These men had been tormented for days by being killed of booby traps, sniper attacks of a faceless threat.. They grew frustrated by the lack of retaliation, angry at their common enemy “communism”, and terrified of if today it would be their turn to be airlifted out to only be acclaimed DOA at the nearest clinic. My lai was only an act of vengeance against a greater cause that had little to no connection to those once simple village. Those who survived recounted what they witnessed that day with a great sadness and forlorn. Pham Tri Trinh was only a child when her entire family was murdered “My home was burning as well as my mother and younger brother as they laid on the ground” Prior to her escaping her home as it was engulfed in flames a solider her raped her 14 year old sister before shooting her dead where she laid sobbing in various states of undress. “ I didn't know what it meant as the