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Could You live the rest of your life With these Memories?

Vietnam Images. Could You live the rest of your life With these Memories? .

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Could You live the rest of your life With these Memories?

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  1. Vietnam Images Could You live the rest of your life With these Memories?

  2. Agent Orangewas the code name for a herbicide developed for the military, primarily for use in tropical climates. The purpose of the product was to deny an enemy cover and concealment in dense terrain by defoliating trees and shrubbery where the enemy could hide.

  3. However, INNOCENT civilians and troops were left to suffer the devastating effects for decades.

  4. Yes, this is what happened to the skin of victims.

  5. Some suffered worse fates.

  6. Mothers exposed to Agent Orange passed on the toxins to their unborn children. Here are the results…

  7. Imagine being an 18-year-old U.S. soldier carrying around those images for life.

  8. Agent Orange was a chemical, but Americans left other scars on the Vietnamese landscape as well.

  9. Some people think that the Japanese committed atrocities, that the Germans committed atrocities, that the Russians committed atrocities, but that the Americans don't commit atrocities. Well, this just isn't so. American troops are as capable as any other of committing atrocities.—Robert Rheault, 1970, former commander of U.S. Special Forces, Vietnam

  10. My Lai was an innocent village. American troops carried out a mass murder/rape of 347-504 UNARMED civilians. The MAJORITY were women, children, and the elderly.

  11. Vietnam vets are still carrying around images of the horror inflicted on that village.

  12. A man and his young son.

  13. This is how we left bodies. We made “art” out of the corpses. American troops put babies’ hearts in their mothers’ mouths.

  14. Trails of horror were visible everywhere—many women and BABIES were raped before being killed.

  15. Could you live with those memories?

  16. Of course there were images of fallen comrades to carry as well.

  17. And when troops came home, they came home without limbs…a constant reminder of the horrors they experienced.

  18. They came home to anger and rage/not appreciation for what they accomplished.

  19. What they carried home with them is deeper than any of us can imagine…

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