This man was actually a part of Vietnam Vets against the War, this clip was taken from a documentary called “Winter Solider” from 1972. it depicts former Vietnam Vets testifying in Detroit about their experiences in Vietnam.
@@wildestcowboy2668 what does that have to do with torturing people? not only that there is no reason not to like him really all he ever wanted was peace
@@ariel0flesh 1,713,823 of those who served in Vietnam were still alive as of August, 1995 (census figures). During that same Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served was: 9,492,958. As of the current Census taken during August, 2000, the surviving U.S. Vietnam Veteran population estimate is: 1,002,511. This is hard to believe, losing nearly 711,000 between ’95 and ’00. That’s 390 per day. During this Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served in-country is: 13,853,027. By this census, FOUR OUT OF FIVE WHO CLAIM TO BE VIETNAM VETS ARE NOT. This makes calculations of those alive, even in 2017, difficult to maintain.
As I've said before i spent TWO tours of duty in Vietnam , and this man is absolutely correct.... There were MANY, MANY, MANY, Acts of TORTURE Against the vietnames people.... You see when you Start your very first tour of duty , you enter Vietnam ( HATING NO ONE ) , but after a while in the jungle seeing all your buddies dropping like Flies , it honestly DOES NOT TAKE VERY LONG TO START HATING the vietnamese people.... Over there you truly couldn't trust ( Men women or children..... ) you truly at times couldn't tell friend from fow..... Over there it was all about body counts... When the president of the time wanted body counts to show the people back home here in the free world for the very first time in History on public television that we were surely winning A UNWINNABLE WAR , He did it by showing Graffic Body counts in living rooms of millions of homes across America.... DECEIVING the American people that us men were serving a purpose over there in Vietnam , But HONESTLY were were all just a bunch of 18 / 19 year old young men that should have been home chasing the ladies not humping through the jungles of Vietnam killing a bunch of vietnamese that for the most part we couldn't even see , ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT.... At night you didn't know the enemy was there until they were almost on you.... but I'm getting way of track here , Yes we had EXTREMELY IGNORANT United states soldiers that did exactly what this young man said , AND MUCH WORSE.... As i said i spent Two tours over there , and im not going to touch on this particular subject , but when our Troops that were lucky enough to finally make it home... All the Names they called us when we were getting off the plane , and for a couple years after us coming home , ( DID FIT AN EXTREMELY LARGE NUMBER OF SOLDIERS THAT CAME HOME ) Baby Ki*lers , Rapist , Mu*der*r , we just a few of the names we were called... and being the fact that i UNFORTUNATELY seen it first hand , i believe the American people back home being DECEIVED by our president at the time , and our own government like were still are today and the media like we still are today were entitled to feel the way they did..... I seen the things they were calling us First hand and it used to make me sick when it came to women and children... It wasn't like you could just go to your commanding officer and REPORT THAT ABUSE , because in MOST CASES the commanding officers were taking part in the ABUSE as the rest of the Soldiers.... But at any rate i figured I'd add my two cents to the mix God Bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸 and carry on........
@@Mattyice5950 and the decades before that in central and south america, and korea before all of that. there will always be combat because there will always be men who commit unspeakable violence with great glee and a public that urges them on so. the american southwest itself is awash with blood spilt by countless combatants and innocents alike. one peculiar thing i've noticed is that the natural beauty of a particular geographic region seems to almost linearly correlate with the amount of blood shed there. and those places are everywhere. and i don't understand our collective obsession with visiting unspeakable violence upon the denizens or visitors of those regions. i have some ideas, but they're all guesses
As a USAF Nurse during your war ( I got lucky & didn't have to set foot in Nam), anyway - thank you for your note. Viet Nam was a horrific thing we did to men like you. We never should have been there. Our greatest embarrassment, but I then as now supported you & a others who served there. I did have the honor 70-71, of being a Flight Nurse & bringing our guys home on their last leg. Thanks to you.
My dad was a vet and he used to tell me how they interrogated some guys! They would take the first one into a room while telling them all, if they didn’t tell them what they wanted to know they was gonna blow their Brains out! Well While they got the first guy in there yelling and going on you know they would fire a gun into the air and cover his mouth real quick and rush them out the back door real quick to make the next guys think they had killed them! He said the next guy usually fell out crying telling everything and they didn’t have to harm anybody. 😂
What the hell is so funny about that? I resisted Vietnam and the Draft b/c the people at home knew all kinds of shit was going on by US troops. Besides being illegitimate invaders and aggressors where they didn't belong....they dishonored their country. Now they whine like little bitches about how they didn't get a Welcome Home when they returned.
@@scg4201 no doubt Vietnam had horrible atrocities on both sides. But there were things taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq, but US soldiers that would leave you in shock. Team 6 Red Squadron, one of the most elite units in the world, began carrying hatchets on missions… and they used them… There’s reports from ex team members that some team guys were literally scalping and skinning the enemy. For psychological warfare tactics. At least what they said about the skinnings. But the commander for the team, would send them off on missions with “Bloody the hatchets!” or “Bring me my scalps!” And this is confirmed by a CIA agent who went on a mission with them in an attempt to question the high value target they were going after, and apparently Red Squadron went in, killed everything, and one of the younger members on the team began trying to decapitate an injured enemy. The CIA guy saw it happening and lost his shit. The send off that night was “I want his head on a platter”. and apparently this young SEAL took it literally. It really messed him up, and he begged to never go back out on missions. He was psychological broken from it.
@@onemaddad3823 that’s bad but in Vietnam EVERY unit not a couple but all would chop ears off the enemy for body count and keep them on shower clips as a souvenir and they would regularly torture kill rape and butcher civilians and captured enemy’s
@@onemaddad3823 in 7 years of combat 60k Americans died in Vietnam in 1968 there was 500k Americans 80k injured and 20k killed in a year that’s 1 out of 5 and not all was front line and in total over 1 million civilians and a further 1 million Vietnamese soldiers both north and south Vietnam and vc and 50 Americans died on a average day in 20 years of Iraq and Afghanistan only 5k soldiers died
I think stopping the domino effect of communism is a good enough reason. If you’re not from a western country and you’re able to freely express yourself online on an American media, then you should probably thank US’s actions in the Cold War.
My grandpa who served actually admitted to me he threw a man out of a helicopter that was a U.S. Soldier that tried to get the squad killed multiple times either intentionally or otherwise. They gave him a chocolate bar before they got on a helicopter. He had to throw up, the man then leans out to throw up and they kicked him out down into the jungle. I also heard he did it before with some prisoners too, he always tells me with grief of what he had to do to survive and the people they had to kill that were in the enemies uniform or even their own uniform. War is Hell.
War is truly hell indeed. Thank you for sharing his stories with us. Veteran here myself but I enlisted in 2010 so fought in different wars, but whenever I hear vietnam stories it just feels like a whole different beast - God bless those soldiers and may everyone rest easy
You know war really makes you hate your enemies.. we look at him like hes a mad man for smiling but those Vietnamese soldiers felt the same way he does.
@@Historicly yes so the Vietnamese probably hated us even more understandably. At the same time, rich white men in America made our boys go over there and fight in the draft. Seeing their buddies die from a fake "enemy". We had no business being there but I can understand the anger both sides must have felt.
@@HistoriclyThe north fucked the south up so hard they almost starved one million of their own after they “won.” This was a proxied civil war. Vietnam vs Vietnam. Only difference is America spent more American lives on south Vietnam than China and USSR spent on north Vietnam.
@@papichulo8143amazing how you turn American imperialism into a "both sides" issue. Like yeah we got involved in a conflict we had no business in for geopolitical convenience and committed several war crimes but hey our boys were irritated at the inconvenience of slaughtering the natives so I can see how both sides would get emotional.
@@robertisham5279 Yep, and we see how well they are/were doing.. choosing to continue being tortured by shit they can actually laugh at if they didn't have people like you fueling their shame and depression.. It's quite sad, how you choose to behave.
Hes having a flashback and enjoying it so much. He doesn't realize that he needs to pretend and hide it. He doesn't realize that hes got this happy look all over his face. Goes to show a psychopath can look like this wholesome guy here who wouldn't hurt a flea? Sick p o s.
They couldn't find the enemy and they would loose buddies so they would take it out on the civilians especially since civilians supported the Viet Minh
this is the PG version of what happened. us soldiers used to burn entire villages, torture the men in the most inhumane ways you can possible imagine, rape and murder the women and children. some of them are still alive today and will never face charges. think of the rage of being a 19-20 year old forced to go into the war and seeing so much death and brutality. it fucks you up. so i do understand in a way. but fuck war overall.
I don’t think they ever raped or murder but thrown out of helicopters I believe but the Vietcong I believe that’s what there called was gonna do much worse so I don’t blame them for it
@@kvngnascar5292The Americans wiped out villages, raped women and children, executed 100s of thousands of innocent civilians and labelled them as VC for the all important "Kill Count". You should read a book called "Kill Anything That Moves". It's written by a historian who obtained and researched documents and sworn testimonies from the Pentagon. You'd be shocked to read some of the things the American soldiers did to civilians.
@@farods8playz755no we dont lol. we generally did better than other people around us, sure. but we have our share of atrocities. vietnam and the pacific side of WW2 were a bit worse due to how intense it was and the stuff the soldiers were put through. How much the enemy was dehumanized in their eyes and how disciplined the men were. The japanese squandered any thoughts of mercy and left a cold hatred in the hearts of many for their barbaric actions, and discipline slacks a built after the end of such heavy fighting on a global scale. A number of women suffered for that, particularly in okinawa. In vietnam the mental assault from commands incompetence, from rabid civilians back home, from boobytraps and suicidal rushes of the vietcong, and the blatant aid and deceit from vietnamese friendly forces and civilians broke down discipline, humanity, and sanity in many of the soldiers.
@@swagkachu3784 He was explaining that no one was right and that torture was taking place on BOTH sides. Just because they invaded didnt give them the right to torture human beings and that goes for BOTH sides.
@@swagkachu3784 I guess the other side had it coming as well then.. They shouldn't have embraced an inhumane ideology called communism and we wouldn't have..
My dad was an A/C repairman in the army in DaNang. I served in the army in the war on terror, but neither of us saw combat, although my dad and I both served, so we swap stories a lot, my dad’s stories I’ve heard my whole life though. Many of them I’m writing into a book on him, about the Viet Cong sending tracer missiles to DaNang Air Base, his truck being blown up, things like that.
@@Historicly I finally published it! I wrote a book titled “Mom & Dad” which is a full biography that encompasses their whole lives. An entire two chapters is dedicated to dad’s time in Vietnam. It’s available on Amazon under “Ethan Ruedlinger.”
I was told by a Vietnam vet about being in a chopper when someone there told the prisoner to "Get the f%&$ out" I mentioned this on another post when a vet saw it and got mad and said it never happened. I don't think he was in Nam long when he got injured, and he was taken out of it. I think he missed some of the ugly stuff that happened.
Went to Saigon/Ho Chi Minh city in 2019 and visited the war museum formerly known as The Museum of American Atrocities…..some of the images were horrific beyond description. I said to the museum guide how can you possibly forgive anyone for that? He told me ‘In Vietnam we don’t look back’. Never forgotten it. Try to live by it myself.
"The strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men then our troubles over here would be very quickly. You have to have men that are moral, but at the same time, utilize their primordial instincts to kill with feeling or judgement....its judgment that defeats us" ...Colonel Kurtz
My father was intelligence in Vietnam awarded bronze star and suffered from PTSD. He was successful until he became a high up executive and didn’t have much to do daily (I’m not saying this to be pretentious) but that’s when he was tormented by the memories. Worked his whole life to get there avoiding the horror but when he had time that’s when he thought about it. He said the movie platoon was so accurate, “only thing missing was the smell.” He didn’t speak to me about it but he had a counselor who documented the stories and said so many things. The racial tension was very much a factor because of the internal conflict between soldiers ie blacks and whites..stories like this guy is saying are very real but for the most part he said guys were just terrified and they didn’t take much time to torture or cause harm.
My dad is a Vietnam vet. I once found a photo album. I am 43 now and still haven't asked him about any of the photos in that album, some of them did something to me and I love my daddy but realized in that moment that there would always be a piece of him that I don't know, maybe don't want to know.
If he is ready, he will talk. Somethings maybe he is not ready. It was an unjust war. Listen to this episode www.historicly.net/p/vietnam-war-and-hedonism-with-meredith
@@Historicly thank you. My father is a wonderful man. He was just a boy when he was there. He is 76 now. He has been a beautiful father and loving grandfather. I will listen to the linked episode now. Again, thank you.
The most paradoxical thing about the US, is that after getting rid of colonial rule to gain independence, started to tour the entire world to impose it or re-impose it everywhere it could. No other formerly colonized country ever did something like that.
And yet they STILL got upset at people RIGHTFULLY calling the rapists, murderers and baby killers when they LITERALLY were ALL that and worse. There was A LOT of random animal torture in Vietnam that is not talked about enough. That how US soldiers would torture fish and livestock animals for fun before dumping them, sometimes still alive, in wells so that the local Vietnamese villagers would get sick or be killed by dehydration.
Everyone who hasn't seen it yet should watch the "Winter Soldier" documentary from 1972. I think it might even be available here on RUclips. The vets testifying about the atrocities they both saw and committed is unreal.
A lot of this shit is true even though it sounds unbelievable. There was a lot of sadistic SOB's that served there. No respect for human life in South East Asia during the French and American occupations. Compared too the atrocities committed here in United States by many of these guys who served in Vietnam and got away with it just like in the states. Yahweh and Yahshua will be their final judge of their sins; hope they ask forgiveness of their deeds.
I don’t think it would be fair to prosecute them as they really had no rules of engagement. I also think it’s wrong to persecute the people who we told to go fight and die in overseas war.
This is what Chile’s Pinochet did to his political enemies back in the 70’s. They would tie scrap iron around them and throw them out of helicopters after flying several miles out over the Pacific. He did lots of other things too, and was a very sick bastard.
Many Vets hated Nixon and Johnson and Moreland. Everyone thinks Nam Vets liked fighting, they're wrong. I have seen Vets crying and very angry at the government for sending them there.
My grandpa was in Vietnam he was a Platoon Sergeant.. he used to tell us that they used to make neckties with the enemy’s tongue… nasty shit would hate to be there in them times
So your grandfather liked carrying decomposing human tongues around his neck? Well, I guess why not MAKE SURE you get infected with maggots if you're still the only healthy one left in your group. 😂 I bet they cut the tongues before the 'enemy' was dead too.
My uncle who was a sergeant said one of his new men under him came into camp with a Vietnamese prisoner of war and said i have a prisoner sarge i think he might have some info my uncle said the Vietnamese boy was about 16 or 17 years old and my uncle told his man to unbind the boy and release him he did and then my uncle told the boy to run back to what ever village he had come from the boy started running and he said he let him get about 75 to a hundred yards away then he shot him in the back of the head with his m16 and he then turned and told the new guy this is what we do with prisoners of war and if we do end up taking prisoners it wont be because you think they might know something I asked my uncle why he didn't just shoot the boy right off the bat why let him run at all he said he thought that it was more merciful to the boy not letting him know he was about to die
How could you see you’re enemy as an human being after watching you’re best friend get shredded to pieces by an artillery shell or am mortar? Or shot by them?
You all say hes fucked up but if you found one of your closest friends tortured and killed in an inhumane way youd want to do the same thing. Its a natural human response.
@@Historicly think of your closest loved one, then a man you never knew tortures thems for months like a fucking toy, then kills them in the most brutal way. Would you feel remorse for the man that? Would you wish them a happy life full of riches? No. You'd want them dead.
@@M1-Productions my closest loved ones would not go and kill Vietnamese peasants and if they did.. they would not be a loved one. I would disown them in a heart beat.
@@Historicly never said they would be there to kill the Vietnamese, they could be drafted, or a medic trying to saved the wounded, then they die. Never said they were killing Vietnamese and committing war crimes, is thst what you automatic assume of all vietnsm veterans? They are cruel American war criminals?
@@Historicly - You keep saying this to people as if to justify these atrocities. Evil is evil regardless of where it takes place. How many U.S. servicemen do you think actually wanted to be there???
@@angelgray8899 Both sides committed horrific unjustifiable war crimes, also, the north was pushing into the south, that isn’t defense it’s offense. So even that terrible attempt to justify horrific war crimes makes no sense. Neither sides have any reason for the war crimes they committed and to try and justify either one is psychotic.
And you think war is fought by gentleman and everyone on all sides follow rules? Ignorance is bliss I guess. No one ever said war was fair. War is ugly. Unless you fought in one you have no idea what it's like.
@@debbiescott6732 except for the Fact that they are fighting the war for access to markets.. thrtr is nothing that stopped them from defecting to Vietnam.
When you see enough of your friends bodies mutilated you start getting really sick and twisted war is absolutely hell whats the saying all fair in live and war
For some, killing in war is sport. Happened in all wars but Vietnam had heavy drug use and jungle fighting which made a lot of men insane. It was the first time away from home for a lot of men and under officer command who a lot had no real control over their troops, enjoyed it themselves or were afraid of their own men.
They lost their souls over there. It was HELL on earth. The Vietcong had them cornered and outsmarted every single day. Every step through dense jungles meant dying in cruel boobie traps or seeing your best friend die in one. These boobie traps were pits with spikes - laced with human crap, and even if they didn’t die immediately from impairment, they would die slowly from nasty infections. We should’ve never been over there. As an add, my JROTC Seargeant quit smoking during that war because he was smoking behind a tree, and a snipers bullet took the bark off the tree beside his head.
Yes because they HATED them. They wouldn’t do that to regular people. What you need to ask yourself is does it matter? Yes. It still matters. There is a way to kill the enemy without torturing them while still giving them primal fear. When you are fighting a war you NEED to HATE the enemy. You HAVE to hate them. And they had every right to hate them. But had no right to torture them. I hope that makes sense.
To be fair both side commited lots of war crimes you would have to prosecute both the Vietnam War was a terrible war that wasn't black and white first of all back then there wasn't alot of structure in teh military I mean you had men doing drugs in the Vietnam War soel soldiers even fought while being high second you have to remember back then there where criminals fighting back then you could get out of doing time in prison if you fought in the war I mean elvis presley joined the army to get put of jail which lead to his mom dying third of all no one really wanted to be there civilians were forced to fight so they where already lacking structure and moral then on top of that the vietcong would also torture and kill American soldiers and they wouldn't wear that much uniforms so they would blend into villages so you wouldn't be able to tell if teh civilian right next to you is a civilian or an enemy and teh vietcong also used biological warfare too such as rigging traps with feces to infect their wounds and even using venomis snakes in traps so that caused paranoia in American soldiers to teh point where they would napalm villages before entering just incase there where enemies they didn't know about so they do t get ambushed which inturn caused more people to join the vietcong so it was a loop of both sides doing horrible things and neither side got prosecuted if you prosecute the US soldiers for doing it rightfully so you would also have to prosecute so many vietcong as well not to mention teh other countries who joined soldiers war especially the Vietnam War is not black and white its more I the Grey area
American soldiers that had no business being there in the first place. It was a war of petty ideological differences. Over 50k men sent home in body bags. Wasted lives.
What I find really interesting is that Vietnamese are for at least the first massive immigration here to the us that are almost all Republican. I ve been around some Vietnamese people just chatting and I’ve hardly ever heard them talking about American atrocities. They mostly talked about the communist atrocities during and after they beat the south Vietnamese in May 1975. Seems like the us veteran talking about atrocities is way hyperbolic and hypersensitive than most of at least the first Vietnamese wave that came to places like Westminster CA who not blame the us soldier but the Democrats for not allowing military aid asked by GOP president Ford. The Vietnamese I’ve known of say the us soldiers treated them with much charity and benevolence like offering them unheard of chocolates like Hersheys. If the Vietnamese don’t blame the American soldier then why should except for a few ever wail and beat themselves over that. Do you think the Japanese soldiers who committed huge atrocities and lived way beyond the war feel much guilt at all. I don’t know. Maybe teachers and tv messaging told them to feel guilty. The interesting intrigue about tv propaganda
Baby Boomers can say whatever they want, but when millennials fought in a war this type of savagery was minimal to non-existent. Of course, some civilians get targeted as in any war, but to do these types of heinous acts of murder and torture is on a whole other level.
Lets not forget the things they did to Americans the things these men had to see watching their brothers be tortured in the worst ways it was a dirty war on both sides
A family friend was SWCC in Vietnam. He told us stories that SEALs would take 3 guys up in a helicopter and tell them, “you’re gonna talk or we’re gonna throw you out one by one. Well the first one didn’t talk, so we threw him out. Well, you better believe after that the last 2 started talking”😅
A nam vet, got some horror off his chest, one day when I was conversing with him, he said they(our USA boys) would also take captured "enemy", and if they were uncooperative in devulging what was sought, these prisoners, would go for a helicopter ride, they would be tied up with ropes at their ankles, the other end of the rope secured to the copter, then they would throw the captured prisoner out of the copter, to be dragged through the tree tops. How this would not kill the man first, rather than keep him alive to give up critical information, I don't know. I just know that I have heard so much evil, about our own deviant and despicable military, that there is no way I could ever be anything but anti war, and will never honor, nor "support our troops". The military industrial complex is perpetually up to no good. We do not belong in NATO, and we do not belong in the Ukraine.
He's totally lying about saying he didn't do it, Saying it didn't happen from his airplane. He puts it on what he makes up a lie. And says it's something he was told by a guy from Philadelphia. Watching him talk about it, hes so enjoying talking about it. He can't help but smile hugely To the point it looks like he's about the bust out laugh. So it seems the interviewer can see right through how he lied n SAID he didn't do it. So then the interviewer was smart to ask him a question. On how many times did you come across something like this? Tricked the ex - soldier into confessing, And then he admits to being involved in it & or doing it himself. 99 times I guess was the amount, double numbers. When you are watching him talk about it, Then he goes quiet and his eyes shift off to the side, he's going in to flashback and enjoying it all over again. He's enjoying it so much, and hes back at that place. Doing it at that very moment to the point that he doesn't even realize he has this gleeful look on his face with a big grin.
Oh the good old days, blindfold people inside of a helicopter 🚁 and have the pilot drop altitude real fast while you and your buddies chuck the person upwards into the propellors.. man those were some strong honeycomb blades. Ahh nastalgia 😂
Those who are bringing us what vietcong did to American war prisoners, yeah that's what happens to war prisoners. It's nobody's fault but it happens. My country gained independence in 1971 after 9 month long war. We know very well about what happens to war prisoners. Our 200,000 women were tortured, r#ped in the most brutalistic way you people will be shaken to core.
This man was actually a part of Vietnam Vets against the War, this clip was taken from a documentary called “Winter Solider” from 1972. it depicts former Vietnam Vets testifying in Detroit about their experiences in Vietnam.
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@@project45yt sorry but I'm not a fan of Ho chi Minh
@@wildestcowboy2668 what does that have to do with torturing people? not only that there is no reason not to like him really all he ever wanted was peace
@@baxterboi2792 That's your opinion pal and I will not be in a conversation with one who thinks he was a saint.... We're u there in 1967?
MAN LOOKES LIKE HE WAS GONNA BURST OUT LUAGING AT ONE PART
Probably because he wasn't really there a lot of these guys never served.
You seemingly don't even know who the man is in the footage, assuming you've ever seen it.@@cyclone8974
You want him to cry like a pussy? Get it together
Laugh or cry it off pick one
@@ariel0flesh 1,713,823 of those who served in Vietnam were still alive as of August, 1995 (census figures).
During that same Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served was: 9,492,958.
As of the current Census taken during August, 2000, the surviving U.S. Vietnam Veteran population estimate is: 1,002,511. This is hard to believe, losing nearly 711,000 between ’95 and ’00. That’s 390 per day. During this Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served in-country is: 13,853,027. By this census, FOUR OUT OF FIVE WHO CLAIM TO BE VIETNAM VETS ARE NOT. This makes calculations of those alive, even in 2017, difficult to maintain.
As I've said before i spent TWO tours of duty in Vietnam , and this man is absolutely correct.... There were MANY, MANY, MANY, Acts of TORTURE Against the vietnames people.... You see when you Start your very first tour of duty , you enter Vietnam ( HATING NO ONE ) , but after a while in the jungle seeing all your buddies dropping like Flies , it honestly DOES NOT TAKE VERY LONG TO START HATING the vietnamese people.... Over there you truly couldn't trust ( Men women or children..... ) you truly at times couldn't tell friend from fow..... Over there it was all about body counts... When the president of the time wanted body counts to show the people back home here in the free world for the very first time in History on public television that we were surely winning A UNWINNABLE WAR , He did it by showing Graffic Body counts in living rooms of millions of homes across America.... DECEIVING the American people that us men were serving a purpose over there in Vietnam , But HONESTLY were were all just a bunch of 18 / 19 year old young men that should have been home chasing the ladies not humping through the jungles of Vietnam killing a bunch of vietnamese that for the most part we couldn't even see , ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT.... At night you didn't know the enemy was there until they were almost on you.... but I'm getting way of track here , Yes we had EXTREMELY IGNORANT United states soldiers that did exactly what this young man said , AND MUCH WORSE.... As i said i spent Two tours over there , and im not going to touch on this particular subject , but when our Troops that were lucky enough to finally make it home... All the Names they called us when we were getting off the plane , and for a couple years after us coming home , ( DID FIT AN EXTREMELY LARGE NUMBER OF SOLDIERS THAT CAME HOME ) Baby Ki*lers , Rapist , Mu*der*r , we just a few of the names we were called... and being the fact that i UNFORTUNATELY seen it first hand , i believe the American people back home being DECEIVED by our president at the time , and our own government like were still are today and the media like we still are today were entitled to feel the way they did..... I seen the things they were calling us First hand and it used to make me sick when it came to women and children... It wasn't like you could just go to your commanding officer and REPORT THAT ABUSE , because in MOST CASES the commanding officers were taking part in the ABUSE as the rest of the Soldiers.... But at any rate i figured I'd add my two cents to the mix God Bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸 and carry on........
I hope you have found peace in life Old Man. May the Politicians who sent you into that hell be judged justly by God.
We just spent the last 20 years doing the exact same thing in a different part of the world
Just know sir, as 24 year old, I respect you sir, god bless you
@@Mattyice5950 and the decades before that in central and south america, and korea before all of that. there will always be combat because there will always be men who commit unspeakable violence with great glee and a public that urges them on so. the american southwest itself is awash with blood spilt by countless combatants and innocents alike. one peculiar thing i've noticed is that the natural beauty of a particular geographic region seems to almost linearly correlate with the amount of blood shed there. and those places are everywhere. and i don't understand our collective obsession with visiting unspeakable violence upon the denizens or visitors of those regions. i have some ideas, but they're all guesses
As a USAF Nurse during your war ( I got lucky & didn't have to set foot in Nam), anyway - thank you for your note. Viet Nam was a horrific thing we did to men like you. We never should have been there. Our greatest embarrassment, but I then as now supported you & a others who served there. I did have the honor 70-71, of being a Flight Nurse & bringing our guys home on their last leg. Thanks to you.
My dad was a vet and he used to tell me how they interrogated some guys! They would take the first one into a room while telling them all, if they didn’t tell them what they wanted to know they was gonna blow their Brains out! Well While they got the first guy in there yelling and going on you know they would fire a gun into the air and cover his mouth real quick and rush them out the back door real quick to make the next guys think they had killed them! He said the next guy usually fell out crying telling everything and they didn’t have to harm anybody. 😂
Wow.
Nah they totally killed em, just didn’t wanna tell you that
That's why the VidCon kick your ass
@@Lilquixx true,there's no need to waste a bullet and to feed an enemy
What the hell is so funny about that? I resisted Vietnam and the Draft b/c the people at home knew all kinds of shit was going on by US troops. Besides being illegitimate invaders and aggressors where they didn't belong....they dishonored their country. Now they whine like little bitches about how they didn't get a Welcome Home when they returned.
Wait till the stories about Iraq and Afghanistan come out in the next 10 or so years…
I already have a few up... cheeck out my videos on afghanistan... there is general rapey rapist....who was vp for a while..
No where near as bad as Vietnam
@@scg4201 no doubt Vietnam had horrible atrocities on both sides. But there were things taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq, but US soldiers that would leave you in shock. Team 6 Red Squadron, one of the most elite units in the world, began carrying hatchets on missions… and they used them… There’s reports from ex team members that some team guys were literally scalping and skinning the enemy. For psychological warfare tactics. At least what they said about the skinnings. But the commander for the team, would send them off on missions with “Bloody the hatchets!” or “Bring me my scalps!” And this is confirmed by a CIA agent who went on a mission with them in an attempt to question the high value target they were going after, and apparently Red Squadron went in, killed everything, and one of the younger members on the team began trying to decapitate an injured enemy. The CIA guy saw it happening and lost his shit. The send off that night was “I want his head on a platter”. and apparently this young SEAL took it literally. It really messed him up, and he begged to never go back out on missions. He was psychological broken from it.
@@onemaddad3823 that’s bad but in Vietnam EVERY unit not a couple but all would chop ears off the enemy for body count and keep them on shower clips as a souvenir and they would regularly torture kill rape and butcher civilians and captured enemy’s
@@onemaddad3823 in 7 years of combat 60k Americans died in Vietnam in 1968 there was 500k Americans 80k injured and 20k killed in a year that’s 1 out of 5 and not all was front line and in total over 1 million civilians and a further 1 million Vietnamese soldiers both north and south Vietnam and vc and 50 Americans died on a average day in 20 years of Iraq and Afghanistan only 5k soldiers died
And to think the US had no real reason to invade Vietnam makes this even more difficult to handle.
I think stopping the domino effect of communism is a good enough reason.
If you’re not from a western country and you’re able to freely express yourself online on an American media, then you should probably thank US’s actions in the Cold War.
@@kilowhiskey7973 you enjoy your burgers and shut the hell up
Hitler should have also been allowed to do whatever the fuk he wanted to?
@@kilowhiskey7973 delusional 🤡
They never invaded
War is hell.
Yeah. Don't forget - Russia-Ukraine War, Israel-Hamas war.
USA is helll
@@ranjanbiswas3233 war never changes
No, Americans are War Criminals.
War is hell because humanity is hell
he looks almost proud of it. that’s so fucked up.
He's a real man broooooooooo, he was there broooooooooo, it was wild broooooooo.
Thank you for the service
@@braxnjacksonjack7147 he’s roasting like a turkey in hell
Some people deal with trauma through smiling and laughing
When somebody kills your buddies you'd be pretty amazed at what you can do to those people..
people from Philly are pretty nuts lol
Yes. We know. Thanks tho. Your pretty awesome too😉😘
Killadelphia
@@neuro_mel9ether431 I love when we get our deserved recognition lol
Look at Kensington today. Talk about white zombies
Go NY Giants beat the eagles
He isn't confessing to shit. He is giving you a 1st hand account of what he observed....you freaking genius
Or he's just lying 🤥. I'm gonna need an early life check
My grandpa who served actually admitted to me he threw a man out of a helicopter that was a U.S. Soldier that tried to get the squad killed multiple times either intentionally or otherwise. They gave him a chocolate bar before they got on a helicopter. He had to throw up, the man then leans out to throw up and they kicked him out down into the jungle.
I also heard he did it before with some prisoners too, he always tells me with grief of what he had to do to survive and the people they had to kill that were in the enemies uniform or even their own uniform. War is Hell.
War is truly hell indeed. Thank you for sharing his stories with us. Veteran here myself but I enlisted in 2010 so fought in different wars, but whenever I hear vietnam stories it just feels like a whole different beast - God bless those soldiers and may everyone rest easy
Don’t forget America invaded Vietnam to through them out the plane. Weird how they always get away with not being the bad guys
In the us that is. Vietnamese will be a different story
Philly boys are wild I swear 💀
Yeah we know 😏
He's PROJECTING it onto a Philly boy when, he did it himself.
Everything he's saying, he's guilty of.
@@sandman2898proud of being scumbags? Very odd
@@RobK32 bro you are from New York I know you ain’t talking
You know war really makes you hate your enemies.. we look at him like hes a mad man for smiling but those Vietnamese soldiers felt the same way he does.
But, they were in Vietnam, their own country. He is a foreign invader
@@Historicly yes so the Vietnamese probably hated us even more understandably. At the same time, rich white men in America made our boys go over there and fight in the draft. Seeing their buddies die from a fake "enemy". We had no business being there but I can understand the anger both sides must have felt.
@@HistoriclyThe north fucked the south up so hard they almost starved one million of their own after they “won.” This was a proxied civil war. Vietnam vs Vietnam. Only difference is America spent more American lives on south Vietnam than China and USSR spent on north Vietnam.
@@papichulo8143 rich white !? or zionists!!!
@@papichulo8143amazing how you turn American imperialism into a "both sides" issue. Like yeah we got involved in a conflict we had no business in for geopolitical convenience and committed several war crimes but hey our boys were irritated at the inconvenience of slaughtering the natives so I can see how both sides would get emotional.
Atleast he don't pretend to feel sorry about it or sad
Some genuinely felt bad about what they did in Vietnam.
@@robertisham5279 Yep, and we see how well they are/were doing.. choosing to continue being tortured by shit they can actually laugh at if they didn't have people like you fueling their shame and depression.. It's quite sad, how you choose to behave.
Hes having a flashback and enjoying it so much. He doesn't realize that he needs to pretend and hide it. He doesn't realize that hes got this happy look all over his face.
Goes to show a psychopath can look like this wholesome guy here who wouldn't hurt a flea?
Sick p o s.
@@selfesteem3447 but they can also act like they are heartbroken and shit haha
They couldn't find the enemy and they would loose buddies so they would take it out on the civilians especially since civilians supported the Viet Minh
this is the PG version of what happened. us soldiers used to burn entire villages, torture the men in the most inhumane ways you can possible imagine, rape and murder the women and children. some of them are still alive today and will never face charges. think of the rage of being a 19-20 year old forced to go into the war and seeing so much death and brutality. it fucks you up. so i do understand in a way. but fuck war overall.
I don’t think they ever raped or murder but thrown out of helicopters I believe but the Vietcong I believe that’s what there called was gonna do much worse so I don’t blame them for it
@@kvngnascar5292they did rape the woman there and murder the innocent
@@kvngnascar5292The Americans wiped out villages, raped women and children, executed 100s of thousands of innocent civilians and labelled them as VC for the all important "Kill Count". You should read a book called "Kill Anything That Moves". It's written by a historian who obtained and researched documents and sworn testimonies from the Pentagon. You'd be shocked to read some of the things the American soldiers did to civilians.
@@kvngnascar5292oh best believe the women were raped.
@@kvngnascar5292 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre Seriously learn your history
Plot twist: the helicopters were on sitting on the tarmac, yeet-a-charlie is phylli's state pastime
When you send men to war & into the pits of hell, man loses his decency & the demons come out
No that's an american thing. Real soldiers have dignity.
@@elendile47if anything america has more dignity than other nations because we have a strict ROE and always fight conventionally
@@elendile47sorry to pop your bubble but that's never been true of any unit that has seen heavy fighting.
@@farods8playz755no we dont lol.
we generally did better than other people around us, sure.
but we have our share of atrocities.
vietnam and the pacific side of WW2 were a bit worse due to how intense it was and the stuff the soldiers were put through. How much the enemy was dehumanized in their eyes and how disciplined the men were.
The japanese squandered any thoughts of mercy and left a cold hatred in the hearts of many for their barbaric actions, and discipline slacks a built after the end of such heavy fighting on a global scale.
A number of women suffered for that, particularly in okinawa.
In vietnam the mental assault from commands incompetence, from rabid civilians back home, from boobytraps and suicidal rushes of the vietcong, and the blatant aid and deceit from vietnamese friendly forces and civilians broke down discipline, humanity, and sanity in many of the soldiers.
Can we get an early life check on this guy? I'm not buying it
If you think that's bad ,ask some NVA what they did to US soldiers P.O.Ws
I addressed that in this video.
ruclips.net/user/shortsGsP-enO95yE?feature=share
Well dont go there in the first place. They had it coming
@@swagkachu3784 He was explaining that no one was right and that torture was taking place on BOTH sides. Just because they invaded didnt give them the right to torture human beings and that goes for BOTH sides.
@@swagkachu3784 I guess the other side had it coming as well then.. They shouldn't have embraced an inhumane ideology called communism and we wouldn't have..
@@swagkachu3784No, they didn't have it coming, the politicians that sent them there had it coming. Moronic comment!
My dad was an A/C repairman in the army in DaNang. I served in the army in the war on terror, but neither of us saw combat, although my dad and I both served, so we swap stories a lot, my dad’s stories I’ve heard my whole life though. Many of them I’m writing into a book on him, about the Viet Cong sending tracer missiles to DaNang Air Base, his truck being blown up, things like that.
That honestly is a awesome idea! Regardless of wether both you saw combat or not, thank you for your service man,
Well bro, I'd read it!
Sorry for the late reply but you should write about your dad's and yours experience. It would make a great book.
@@Historicly I finally published it! I wrote a book titled “Mom & Dad” which is a full biography that encompasses their whole lives. An entire two chapters is dedicated to dad’s time in Vietnam. It’s available on Amazon under “Ethan Ruedlinger.”
@@ewrgaming ill check it out.
The guy seeming so happy made me almost laugh at the story then I remembered oh yeah this is f@cked
I was told by a Vietnam vet about being in a chopper when someone there told the prisoner to "Get the f%&$ out"
I mentioned this on another post when a vet saw it and got mad and said it never happened.
I don't think he was in Nam long when he got injured, and he was taken out of it. I think he missed some of the ugly stuff that happened.
He doesn’t look like someone that actually saw anything. I call BS.
Went to Saigon/Ho Chi Minh city in 2019 and visited the war museum formerly known as The Museum of American Atrocities…..some of the images were horrific beyond description. I said to the museum guide how can you possibly forgive anyone for that? He told me ‘In Vietnam we don’t look back’. Never forgotten it. Try to live by it myself.
@@richardl772 that is amazing...
yet the politicians that personally benefit from all this misery are never held accountable
No shit. Find me one through history that did.
@@swlgns4663 besides Nuremberg, it is hard to find such an example
"The strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men then our troubles over here would be very quickly. You have to have men that are moral, but at the same time, utilize their primordial instincts to kill with feeling or judgement....its judgment that defeats us" ...Colonel Kurtz
My father was intelligence in Vietnam awarded bronze star and suffered from PTSD. He was successful until he became a high up executive and didn’t have much to do daily (I’m not saying this to be pretentious) but that’s when he was tormented by the memories. Worked his whole life to get there avoiding the horror but when he had time that’s when he thought about it. He said the movie platoon was so accurate, “only thing missing was the smell.” He didn’t speak to me about it but he had a counselor who documented the stories and said so many things. The racial tension was very much a factor because of the internal conflict between soldiers ie blacks and whites..stories like this guy is saying are very real but for the most part he said guys were just terrified and they didn’t take much time to torture or cause harm.
Thanks for sharing this story. I should dig deeper about the racial tension!
My dad is a Vietnam vet. I once found a photo album. I am 43 now and still haven't asked him about any of the photos in that album, some of them did something to me and I love my daddy but realized in that moment that there would always be a piece of him that I don't know, maybe don't want to know.
If he is ready, he will talk. Somethings maybe he is not ready. It was an unjust war. Listen to this episode
www.historicly.net/p/vietnam-war-and-hedonism-with-meredith
@@Historicly thank you. My father is a wonderful man. He was just a boy when he was there. He is 76 now. He has been a beautiful father and loving grandfather. I will listen to the linked episode now. Again, thank you.
Compare to the 'Winter Soldier' confessions from the first back from the war of terror.
Good idea.
The most paradoxical thing about the US, is that after getting rid of colonial rule to gain independence, started to tour the entire world to impose it or re-impose it everywhere it could. No other formerly colonized country ever did something like that.
Funny how that only happend after 1945, innit?
That’s not war. That’s just humanity at its finest. Cmon, throwing body’s off the airplane?
And they treated our boys with kid gloves?
If someone was napalming you are your relatives, you might have been inclined to to some pretty vengeful things to them.
@@russellcampbell9198
So you are siding with the communists, got it. Douchebag
Shoulda stayed home
Over two million civilian deaths in a country you invaded without even declaring war.
@@paul66990
Civilians or North Vietnamese communists and sympathisers like the VC? What do you know about the war?
Imagine telling the story of how you committed possible war crimes like you were telling a story of how your friends went to swim at the lake
'Possible' ?
And yet they STILL got upset at people RIGHTFULLY calling the rapists, murderers and baby killers when they LITERALLY were ALL that and worse.
There was A LOT of random animal torture in Vietnam that is not talked about enough.
That how US soldiers would torture fish and livestock animals for fun before dumping them, sometimes still alive, in wells so that the local Vietnamese villagers would get sick or be killed by dehydration.
"To know war, is to know that there is still madness in this world"
And he's grinning. God knows wassup. Lol
Where is he
Dude. God isnt real. Pay attenton.
@@RRRobertLazerYou’ve just been visited by the Anti-Troll. Cease your trolling.
@@theantitrollwhat up og
Everyone who hasn't seen it yet should watch the "Winter Soldier" documentary from 1972. I think it might even be available here on RUclips. The vets testifying about the atrocities they both saw and committed is unreal.
They were all liars.
These.guys weren't only fighting the Vietnamese Army but they were also fighting the Vietcong.
A lot of this shit is true even though it sounds unbelievable. There was a lot of sadistic SOB's that served there. No respect for human life in South East Asia during the French and American occupations. Compared too the atrocities committed here in United States by many of these guys who served in Vietnam and got away with it just like in the states. Yahweh and Yahshua will be their final judge of their sins; hope they ask forgiveness of their deeds.
I don’t think it would be fair to prosecute them as they really had no rules of engagement. I also think it’s wrong to persecute the people who we told to go fight and die in overseas war.
It is wrong, but what you going to do about it.
. "I'm not their prosecutor!!" But there is a God and he will hold them to accountable for their actions; them and many more like them.
Goes both ways the Vietcong were no better
@@broccolirob5026 where did they say that the Vietcong were innocent?
Where can watch the full version of this
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This is what Chile’s Pinochet did to his political enemies back in the 70’s.
They would tie scrap iron around them and throw them out of helicopters after flying several miles out over the Pacific.
He did lots of other things too, and was a very sick bastard.
It is pretty creepy the similarities.
Many Vets hated Nixon and Johnson and Moreland. Everyone thinks Nam Vets liked fighting, they're wrong. I have seen Vets crying and very angry at the government for sending them there.
This is from one of those testimonies:winter soldier.
Anyone else get that vibe....? I was waiting for them to pop out with....annnnnd that's Norm McDonald!!!
Baldamir game was the hardest I’ve laughed at a video in a while. Thanks dad
He took to much LSD while he was there lmfao
Most of the guys over there were on heroin because it was dirt cheap and easy to get. Then weed
I'm pretty sure if I was in constant fear of Bobby traps and enemies on the trees I would take drugs too
@@orthodoxcrusader5413weak minded
Danielfinney, BS you don't know wtf you're talking about.
Defensive war in Vietnam against the American invaders
🤡
You must be a troll I gather.
@@LB-uo7xyI mean he’s not really wrong to be honest I’m not even anti American it’s just true
He's there but he's not there!!! War is hell!!!!!😔
My grandpa was in Vietnam he was a Platoon Sergeant.. he used to tell us that they used to make neckties with the enemy’s tongue… nasty shit would hate to be there in them times
How is that even possible?
i hope he was spit at
So your grandfather liked carrying decomposing human tongues around his neck?
Well, I guess why not MAKE SURE you get infected with maggots if you're still the only healthy one left in your group. 😂
I bet they cut the tongues before the 'enemy' was dead too.
@Historicly it's not, he's lying 🙄
My uncle who was a sergeant said one of his new men under him came into camp with a Vietnamese prisoner of war and said i have a prisoner sarge i think he might have some info my uncle said the Vietnamese boy was about
16 or 17 years old and my uncle told his man to unbind the boy and release him he did and then my uncle told the boy to run back to what ever village he had come from the boy started running and he said he let him get about 75 to a hundred yards away then he shot him in the back of the head with his m16 and he then turned and told the new guy this is what we do with prisoners of war and if we do end up taking prisoners it wont be because you think they might know something I asked my uncle why he didn't just shoot the boy right off the bat why let him run at all he said he thought that it was more merciful to the boy not letting him know he was about to die
The sick psychologist of America
How could you see you’re enemy as an human being after watching you’re best friend get shredded to pieces by an artillery shell or am mortar? Or shot by them?
Well, maybe you should not be going to war in their country. Excellent point. But war is sometimes a necessary evil..but not at Vietnam
I'm Asian, its very disturbing watching this.
Me 2. That's why I put the video up. People need to learn the truth about imperialism.
Very disturbing listening to American soldiers talk about how they were tortured by the Vietnamese and the Japanese in Vietnam and WW2
I’m a white American and it’s disturbing hearing what VeitCong did to captured American soldiers
@@johnwitte1676 you were invading their country though
Just because you're Asian? I could understand being Vietnamese but just being Asian and feeling so called disturbed sounds kinda disingenuous to me.
You all say hes fucked up but if you found one of your closest friends tortured and killed in an inhumane way youd want to do the same thing. Its a natural human response.
No.
@@Historicly think of your closest loved one, then a man you never knew tortures thems for months like a fucking toy, then kills them in the most brutal way. Would you feel remorse for the man that? Would you wish them a happy life full of riches? No. You'd want them dead.
@@M1-Productions my closest loved ones would not go and kill Vietnamese peasants and if they did.. they would not be a loved one. I would disown them in a heart beat.
@@Historicly never said they would be there to kill the Vietnamese, they could be drafted, or a medic trying to saved the wounded, then they die. Never said they were killing Vietnamese and committing war crimes, is thst what you automatic assume of all vietnsm veterans? They are cruel American war criminals?
@@M1-Productions if they are in Vietnam with the US army, they are there to kill Vietnamese.
Shall we talk about what the Viet Cong and NVA did???? No one GAF!!!
It's their land.
@@Historicly - You keep saying this to people as if to justify these atrocities. Evil is evil regardless of where it takes place. How many U.S. servicemen do you think actually wanted to be there???
@@michaelmorin1926 Weren't the majority of them volunteers?
They defended their country
@@angelgray8899 Both sides committed horrific unjustifiable war crimes, also, the north was pushing into the south, that isn’t defense it’s offense. So even that terrible attempt to justify horrific war crimes makes no sense. Neither sides have any reason for the war crimes they committed and to try and justify either one is psychotic.
He is lying. You can tell by the way he is smiling and his eyes move up and to the left. He is making this up. He hasn't seen shit.
The people in these comment sections are mentally incompetent.
99 times he threw a guy from plane...😅
My dad was a marine in Vietnam war, he seen some terrible things and I wish he didn't. War will and has always been horrible
War is hell
WTF? So disturbing
Check out our video
ruclips.net/video/ztMD_pwbyF0/видео.html
And you think war is fought by gentleman and everyone on all sides follow rules? Ignorance is bliss I guess. No one ever said war was fair. War is ugly. Unless you fought in one you have no idea what it's like.
@@debbiescott6732 stfu, that's the most pointless platitude I heard in my life. You know what war crime is?
@@debbiescott6732 except for the Fact that they are fighting the war for access to markets.. thrtr is nothing that stopped them from defecting to Vietnam.
@@mat_j ofc it’s a fucking war crime, he’s right, mfs not gonna follow rules
Do you see how he says it with a smile on his face? Absolutely insane. So who was really the bad guys?
The vietnamese were never the bad guys to begin with
That kind of behavior will deteriorate You're morals to the poit you're desensitized Is like that of a mortician, Or a guy who performs autopsies
You’re right! Look at his eyes, the bloke is lost already.
General Westmoreland wanted big body counts - known fact.
Hearts and minds
Damn I missed all the fun stuff all we did was convince the locals that the pork was chicken.
Where?
Nothing funny about Vietnam
@@Historicly Afghanistan
He was in the Navi and fixed ships one day he was fixing a ship and his leg got stuck and it got cut off
Ah Navy.
When you see enough of your friends bodies mutilated you start getting really sick and twisted war is absolutely hell whats the saying all fair in live and war
Do you think the NVA or VC grilled their vets on what they would do with P.O.W's? ... you're absolutely correct, they didn't.
Ain’t war hell!
For some, killing in war is sport. Happened in all wars but Vietnam had heavy drug use and jungle fighting which made a lot of men insane. It was the first time away from home for a lot of men and under officer command who a lot had no real control over their troops, enjoyed it themselves or were afraid of their own men.
All valid points. most were not professionals. many were drafted and pushed through a haphazard training and then left in the middle of the war.
Cut! Can you not smile when talking about this horrible thing. Take 2..... Action!
The things that they did to the Americans was worst
Especially in Philly!
Shoulda stayed home, GI
My lai massacre? Incident on hill 192? Agent Orange?
Does anyone believe this? I don’t know if I do or not.
I do. Because I've seen videos of worse.
There were war testimonial books writen about worse!
It's worse than he said.
They lost their souls over there. It was HELL on earth. The Vietcong had them cornered and outsmarted every single day. Every step through dense jungles meant dying in cruel boobie traps or seeing your best friend die in one. These boobie traps were pits with spikes - laced with human crap, and even if they didn’t die immediately from impairment, they would die slowly from nasty infections.
We should’ve never been over there.
As an add, my JROTC Seargeant quit smoking during that war because he was smoking behind a tree, and a snipers bullet took the bark off the tree beside his head.
Yes because they HATED them. They wouldn’t do that to regular people. What you need to ask yourself is does it matter? Yes. It still matters. There is a way to kill the enemy without torturing them while still giving them primal fear. When you are fighting a war you NEED to HATE the enemy. You HAVE to hate them. And they had every right to hate them. But had no right to torture them. I hope that makes sense.
You really opened my eyes to how justified these war crimes were. Stfu
The nazis involved in the holocaust were prosecuted. Any prosecutions for US personnel for Vietnam War crimes ?
A) not really. Very few. Like a habdful.
B) let me think.
To be fair both side commited lots of war crimes you would have to prosecute both the Vietnam War was a terrible war that wasn't black and white first of all back then there wasn't alot of structure in teh military I mean you had men doing drugs in the Vietnam War soel soldiers even fought while being high second you have to remember back then there where criminals fighting back then you could get out of doing time in prison if you fought in the war I mean elvis presley joined the army to get put of jail which lead to his mom dying third of all no one really wanted to be there civilians were forced to fight so they where already lacking structure and moral then on top of that the vietcong would also torture and kill American soldiers and they wouldn't wear that much uniforms so they would blend into villages so you wouldn't be able to tell if teh civilian right next to you is a civilian or an enemy and teh vietcong also used biological warfare too such as rigging traps with feces to infect their wounds and even using venomis snakes in traps so that caused paranoia in American soldiers to teh point where they would napalm villages before entering just incase there where enemies they didn't know about so they do t get ambushed which inturn caused more people to join the vietcong so it was a loop of both sides doing horrible things and neither side got prosecuted if you prosecute the US soldiers for doing it rightfully so you would also have to prosecute so many vietcong as well not to mention teh other countries who joined soldiers war especially the Vietnam War is not black and white its more I the Grey area
@@oogieboogie7332 Yet still American soldiers have managed to be more black than the VC when it comes to atrocities commited.
'Murica wins again!
If that was even true, this guy obviously didn't care. Anyway they did a lot worse to our captives
Yeah, especially in Philly!!
@@russellcampbell9198
What does that mean?
I think you're missing the point. Do you want to be the good guys or not?
@@PaxilRose
What point?
You invade someone else's country and starts bombing then expects them to act nice to you? @@jaymass1178
Wtf. You repeat the same excerpt
Winning hearts and minds...
Just because he's saying something doesn't make it true.
well its war..its not a friendly game of tiddly winks.
"see how far they can go" huh???..... there's only one way down.
Yea I will never say thank you for your service to a Vietnam vet😂
These vets had a huge rate of suicide after coming home where they were shamed for serving.
As they should be. Check out my ears for beers videos
NO! People should have shamed the politicians not the veterans. @@Historicly
@@HistoriclyI have a weird feeling you hate Americans
@@ranjanbiswas3233idc. If you commit a crime, you commit a crime
How about what they did to America soldiers
American soldiers dont belong in Vietnam.
American soldiers that had no business being there in the first place.
It was a war of petty ideological differences. Over 50k men sent home in body bags. Wasted lives.
What I find really interesting is that Vietnamese are for at least the first massive immigration here to the us that are almost all Republican. I ve been around some Vietnamese people just chatting and I’ve hardly ever heard them talking about American atrocities. They mostly talked about the communist atrocities during and after they beat the south Vietnamese in May 1975. Seems like the us veteran talking about atrocities is way hyperbolic and hypersensitive than most of at least the first Vietnamese wave that came to places like Westminster CA who not blame the us soldier but the Democrats for not allowing military aid asked by GOP president Ford. The Vietnamese I’ve known of say the us soldiers treated them with much charity and benevolence like offering them unheard of chocolates like Hersheys. If the Vietnamese don’t blame the American soldier then why should except for a few ever wail and beat themselves over that. Do you think the Japanese soldiers who committed huge atrocities and lived way beyond the war feel much guilt at all.
I don’t know. Maybe teachers and tv messaging told them to feel guilty. The interesting intrigue about tv propaganda
Obviously, children of reactionary landlords will be republican because they have their wealth to protect.
I talked about Vietnam once!
We’re just like ants, conflict seems to be inevitable
When you are governed by psychopaths.
Mostly civilians and blacks. Some black soldiers were crucified in nam.
Baby Boomers can say whatever they want, but when millennials fought in a war this type of savagery was minimal to non-existent. Of course, some civilians get targeted as in any war, but to do these types of heinous acts of murder and torture is on a whole other level.
Lets not forget the things they did to Americans the things these men had to see watching their brothers be tortured in the worst ways it was a dirty war on both sides
Whose country was it again?
A family friend was SWCC in Vietnam. He told us stories that SEALs would take 3 guys up in a helicopter and tell them, “you’re gonna talk or we’re gonna throw you out one by one. Well the first one didn’t talk, so we threw him out. Well, you better believe after that the last 2 started talking”😅
how can you put a smiley face on there ???
Had a Vietnam war vet neighbor tell me the exact same thing....so sad....so cruel 😔
How can you put a smiley face on there???😠
@@LisaJones-fp3eebecause he’s a really goofy SOB
SWCC wasn't founded until 1987. Your friend is stolen valor👍
A nam vet, got some horror off his chest, one day when I was conversing with him, he said they(our USA boys) would also take captured "enemy", and if they were uncooperative in devulging what was sought, these prisoners, would go for a helicopter ride, they would be tied up with ropes at their ankles, the other end of the rope secured to the copter, then they would throw the captured prisoner out of the copter, to be dragged through the tree tops. How this would not kill the man first, rather than keep him alive to give up critical information, I don't know. I just know that I have heard so much evil, about our own deviant and despicable military, that there is no way I could ever be anything but anti war, and will never honor, nor
"support our troops". The military industrial complex is perpetually up to no good. We do not belong in NATO, and we do not belong in the Ukraine.
That last rant is quite silly
"Mac & charlie commit war crimes"
He's totally lying about saying he didn't do it, Saying it didn't happen from his airplane. He puts it on what he makes up a lie. And says it's something he was told by a guy from Philadelphia.
Watching him talk about it, hes so enjoying talking about it. He can't help but smile hugely To the point it looks like he's about the bust out laugh.
So it seems the interviewer can see right through how he lied n SAID he didn't do it.
So then the interviewer was smart to ask him a question. On how many times did you come across something like this? Tricked the ex - soldier into confessing, And then he admits to being involved in it & or doing it himself. 99 times I guess was the amount, double numbers.
When you are watching him talk about it, Then he goes quiet and his eyes shift off to the side, he's going in to flashback and enjoying it all over again.
He's enjoying it so much, and hes back at that place. Doing it at that very moment to the point that he doesn't even realize he has this gleeful look on his face with a big grin.
Oh the good old days, blindfold people inside of a helicopter 🚁 and have the pilot drop altitude real fast while you and your buddies chuck the person upwards into the propellors.. man those were some strong honeycomb blades. Ahh nastalgia 😂
not believable. dude sounds like a John Kerry fellow traveler.
So what’s the point of this video . Your talking about things people already know . It’s war .
A history channel.
Those who are bringing us what vietcong did to American war prisoners, yeah that's what happens to war prisoners. It's nobody's fault but it happens. My country gained independence in 1971 after 9 month long war. We know very well about what happens to war prisoners. Our 200,000 women were tortured, r#ped in the most brutalistic way you people will be shaken to core.
Only from Philly
To be honest this looks totally staged and he looks like a Vietnam veterans against the war kind of puppet if he even was there or in at all