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Machette

Read this in the adbusters and in my opinion its the most powerful speech I've read in a while...here it is

...a group of soldiers in 1968 went into a village. They had been in Vietnam for three months and lost about 10 percent of their people - maybe 10 or 15 - to accidents, killings and bombings. There were 550 women, children and old men in the village and they executed them all. It took a day. They stopped in the middle and they had lunch. The black and Hispanic soldiers - about 40 of them, there were about 90 men in the unit - shot into the air. They wouldn't shoot at the villagers in the ditch. The soldiers collected people in the three ditches and just began to shoot them. The blacks and Hispanices shot up in the air, but mostly the white, lower middle class soldiers - the kids who join the Army Reserve today and National Guard looking for extra dollars - those kind of kids did the killing. One of them was a man named Paul Medlow, who did an awful lot of shooting. The next day, there was moment that everybody remebered afterward. One of the mothers at the bottom of the ditch had taken a child - a boy, about two - and got him under her stomach in such a way that he wasn't killed. When they were sitting having the K rations, the kid somehow crawled up through the bodies and began screaming. And Calley, the famous Lieutenant Calley, the Lynndie England of that tragedy, told Medlow: Kill him "Plug Him", he said. And Medlow somehow, who had done an awful lot as I say - 200 bullets - couldn't do it. So Calley ran up as everybody watched, with his carbine. Calley had a smaller weapon, a rifle, and shot the kid in the back of the head. The next morning, Medlow stepped on a mine and he had his foot blown off. He was being medevaced out. As he was being medevaced out, he cursed and everybody remebered one of the chilling lines he said. "God has punished me, and he's going to punish you, too"

Fucking chilling statement...

It's not copy and pasted so their could possibly be spelling mistakes..

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Machette is Offline Major Posts: 6,413 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: University of Guelph	Seymour Hersh Speech; very powerful ( My Lai Massacre ) - 05-13-2005, 03:17 PM Read this in the adbusters and in my opinion its the most powerful speech I've read in a while...here it is ...a group of soldiers in 1968 went into a village. They had been in Vietnam for three months and lost about 10 percent of their people - maybe 10 or 15 - to accidents, killings and bombings. There were 550 women, children and old men in the village and they executed them all. It took a day. They stopped in the middle and they had lunch. The black and Hispanic soldiers - about 40 of them, there were about 90 men in the unit - shot into the air. They wouldn't shoot at the villagers in the ditch. The soldiers collected people in the three ditches and just began to shoot them. The blacks and Hispanices shot up in the air, but mostly the white, lower middle class soldiers - the kids who join the Army Reserve today and National Guard looking for extra dollars - those kind of kids did the killing. One of them was a man named Paul Medlow, who did an awful lot of shooting. The next day, there was moment that everybody remebered afterward. One of the mothers at the bottom of the ditch had taken a child - a boy, about two - and got him under her stomach in such a way that he wasn't killed. When they were sitting having the K rations, the kid somehow crawled up through the bodies and began screaming. And Calley, the famous Lieutenant Calley, the Lynndie England of that tragedy, told Medlow: Kill him "Plug Him", he said. And Medlow somehow, who had done an awful lot as I say - 200 bullets - couldn't do it. So Calley ran up as everybody watched, with his carbine. Calley had a smaller weapon, a rifle, and shot the kid in the back of the head. The next morning, Medlow stepped on a mine and he had his foot blown off. He was being medevaced out. As he was being medevaced out, he cursed and everybody remebered one of the chilling lines he said. "God has punished me, and he's going to punish you, too" Fucking chilling statement... It's not copy and pasted so their could possibly be spelling mistakes..