Four Hours In My Lai (5 of 7)

didn't see any action. sick of booby traps laid out in their patrol routes and one day, they just lost it. The guy in the first video said it right. I'm sure they were battling in their minds with anxiety if they can kill or not but majority probably already committed to killing on the chopper ride to my lai. After the first kill, there's no turning back. mixture of conscience, fear, anxiety, and power just took over their heads and lost control.

all these testimonies are full of shit. These fuckers are still try'n to justify in their head that they're do or die follow the order type of guys but in reality, just like any other undisciplined grunt unit, they're rebels when it's convenient for them like bitchin about digging holes or standing posts. But just THAT DAY, they chose not to and follow the order like no other. Everyone had the intention of killing from the beginning. They've been in the country for quite a bit now,

I mean, if he just said "Our orders were to kill everyone, and we carried them out" - ok, that may be true. But "Morally right"?!
When has mutilating, raping and torturing ever been morally right???? HOW can he just really believe in what he's saying???????

I can't believe it...how fuckin stupid is that guy in 4.30?????
"We carried out our orders morally right"?????!!!!
I really can't fuckin believe it.
It's simply incomprehensible how dehumanized these people were

God bless people like Thompson

You sound like a nazi about to be hung after WWII.

War fucks someone up. The hatred that is born from seeing your buddies blown away can make someone do things they would NEVER do in real life

that man at 4.30 is a lying scumbag!!!

I Do However Beleive That The Soldiers Were Low In Moral Intelligence Otherwise Thes Events Would NEVER Have Taken Place. Refusing To Murder And Pillage Is Not A Crime , If anything It Is An Incredibley Heroic Act In a Situation Such As That. What Complete Arseholes , Anyone Who Isn't Ashamed Of What They Did Should Rot In Hell Tbhh. Eurghh It Makes Me Sick To Think Of What The Poor Inocent Civillians Of My Lai Have Been Put Through.

I Dont Know How Anyone Can Live With Themselves After This. I'm Studying This In School And Found The Topic Tragic. What The Hell Made The Americans Think That Massacreing A Whole Village Was Going to Gain Support for The Battle against A communist and Nationalist Regime. I Do Not However Beleive These Men Were Not Intelligent As Afterwards It Was Discovered That Only 13 Of The Many Men Scored So Low On Intelligence Tests That They Wouldn't have Been Alowed Into The Normal Peacetime Army .