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You said “We protected the civilians, we didn’t victimize them”.

I am just pointing out that this is not true. A massacre as bad as My Lai is enough to stain the reputation of all US forces who were in Vietnam at the time. It is enough to stain the reputation of the entire nation.

People in Vietnam are still suffering from the herbicides and defoliants we used.

Why should I apologize? For pointing out a historical fact?

I think you should apologize for calling it “one lousy unit’s war crime”.

This was my post to you: "You have been on this site a little over 2 months, and decide to denigrate the Vietnam veterans on this forum. Not a wise move sparky." I said nothing else.

I stand by what I post. I post with my real name.

Methinks you need your woof ticket punched.

Richard Cranium

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You are an example of what is really wrong with our country: somebody with very little understanding of history - or much else - yet you continue to happily expose your ignorance in public without a hint of shame. Another failure of our school system, I guess.

You and John Kerry and Jane Fonda and all the pro-Communist Left used the crime at My Lai to smear all the 2 million rest of us who served in Vietnam's service - which is like tarring the whole history and worth of the United States because Wounded Knee occurred or smearing the city of London because Jack the Ripper lived there.

The men I served with in Vietnam were good, solid, courageous Americans and I will always honor them. I did see some of my fellow Marines die in the act of protecting civilian lives. Despite the falsehoods of the enemy, the press, and you, the refugees always streamed in to us, not to the NVA or the VC. The people knew who we were.

You clearly didn't serve in Vietnam. Yet like many others, you are more than happy to broadly smear those of us who did, including the 58,000 of us who died. I guess I don't have to say more about you - you already know who you are.