#My Lai massacre

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"On March 16, 1968, Calley led American soldiers of the Charlie Company on a mission to confront a crack outfit of Vietcong enemies. Instead, over several hours, the soldiers killed 504 unresisting civilians, mostly women, children and elderly men, in My Lai and a neighboring community."

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I went down a YouTube rabbit hole and wound up on a video that was a list of most gruesome and violent scenes in movies.

In the video, there featured clips from a movie called “My Lai Four”. (the scenes shown were very gruesome so I will not describe them.)

I hadn’t heard of it so I looked it up to see what it was about. Only to find out it’s a film based on the true events of the My Lai massacre.

What happened is so disgustingly vile and evil that I refuse to say exactly what happened, but if you aren’t easily triggered by anything then I highly suggest you look it up.

Basically, it was a series of horrific war crimes committed by United States Army personnel during the Vietnam War.

After the war, 26 soldiers were charged with the crimes committed. Only 1 was convicted. He was given a LIFE SENTENCE but only served 3.5 years under house arrest.

This obviously horrified and nauseated me, but it also had me wondering about what other war crimes the U.S. has committed. Which led me into a very terrifying deep dive.

Admittedly, I had to stop my researching prematurely. Only because it was making me physically ill.

As a United States citizen, I thought I was fully aware how fucked up my country was - oh how wrong I was.

The lack of support for Palestine from my government is starting to come into focus for me now.

What is happening in Palestine are War Crimes. They are Crimes Against Humanity.

There is no excuse for what is happening.

There is no “but they…” or “I feel…”. No.

This is wrong. Going into someone else’s country to colonize it by bombing, starving, and mutilating innocent civilians is evil.

End of story.

#FreePalestine

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Lieutenant William Calley is dead.

Lieutenant Calley is dead, at 80, after living a long, long life.

He didn't deserve a fucking day.

On March 15, 1968, Calley led Company C of US Army infantry into the hamlet of My Lai in Vietnam. (The presence and culpability of Captain Ernest Medina was covered up. Medina also lived a long, long life and died at 81 in 2018.) Over the day, Company C carried out a systemic massacre of 504 women, children, and elderly men, who were the only occupants of My Lai.

When people think about Vietnam and the atrocities committed by Americans there, they might not know the name My Lai. But it was the big one.

The only thing that brought the massacre to a halt was a helicopter pilot, Warrant Officer Hugh C. Thompson, who landed his bird and threatened to order his gunners to shoot the infantry. He then went out and shielded the Vietnamese civilians with his body. Afterwards, Thompson was ostracized by the military, hounded by the press, and driven to an early grave.

He died at the age of 62 of liver cancer, having drunk himself to death.

William Calley died today.

I spit on his fucking grave.

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Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)

24/03/2024

Platoon is a 1986 film, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which deals with his time in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences the director had between 1967 and 1971 during his military service.

The film won 4 Oscars out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin as best director. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in eighty-third place in the ranking of the one hundred best American films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it dropped to eighty-sixth place. In 2019, it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.

The bloodiest episode, as in many other films dealing with the Vietnam War, is inspired by the most atrocious event of that conflict, known to history as the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers committed atrocities including rape of very young girls, indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians, destruction of the homes and resources of the inhabitants, believed to be allies of the Viet Cong, despite there being no evidence. From this perspective, the figure of the platoon commander, Lieutenant Wolfe, both for his inability to control his men and for other characteristics, can be traced back to the main person responsible for My Lai, the then US Army Lieutenant William Calley, convicted to several years of military detention for that very affair.

Due to an error by Lieutenant Wolfe, who gives wrong coordinates via radio, the platoon is decimated by friendly artillery.

In the last war action of his volunteer service, Chris escapes a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who almost completely annihilate the platoon and the subsequent American bombing with napalm.

Initially Hollywood snubs the script as many producers are of the opinion that what three is to say about the Vietnam War has already been reported in highly successful films such as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, however the strength of Stone's script still attracts some producers who see enormous potential in him. He was then assigned to write a screenplay for another film, Stone accepted and wrote Midnight Express in 1977, thanks to which he won the Oscar for best non-original screenplay (first statuette for Stone) a fact that made all of Hollywood understand the Stone's enormous potential; it was therefore not difficult for him to find the producer to begin work on Platoon.

The film was shot, following the great example of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, starting in February 1986. The film's production was almost canceled due to the political upheavals in country, due to Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the country. Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast members underwent a two-week course of intensive training by Dale Dye (former Marine captain during the Vietnam War and interpreter of Captain Harris), during which they had to dig trenches and suffer forced marches and night "ambushes".

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William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, has died. He was 80. Calley died on April 28, according to his Florida death record, which said he had been living in an apartment in Gainesville. His death was first reported by The Washington Post on Monday, citing his death certificate. Calley had lived in obscurity in the decades since he was court-martialed and convicted in 1971, the only one of 25 men originally charged to be found guilty in the massacre, which helped turn American opinion against the war in Vietnam. On March 16, 1968, Calley led American soldiers of the Charlie Company on a mission to confront a crack outfit of their Vietcong enemies. Instead, over several hours, the soldiers killed 504 unresisting civilians, mostly women, children and elderly men, in My Lai and a neighboring community.

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“may the forth be with you”

for country all about remembrance we should really get rid of May 4th being Star Wars day and make it a fucking government holiday to remember the Kent State Massacre of May 4th 1970

fucking remember My Lai, fucking remember Kent State, fucking remember Philadelphia 1985

cowardice nationalism. have some real pride and remember the massacres of your citizens. you either care about the people or you’re a FUCKING FASCIST

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          When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. Citing a source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning," Hersh writes on his Substack blog that planning for the mission began in December of 2021. The White House and the Norwegian government have since denied the claims. Hersh joins us for an in-depth interview to discuss his report and says the U.S. decision to bomb the pipelines was meant to lock allies into support for Ukraine at a time when some were wavering. "The fear was Europe would walk away from the war," he says. Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his reporting on the My Lai massacre. His reporting on CIA spying on antiwar activists during the Vietnam War era helped lead to the formation of the Church Committee, which led to major reforms of the intelligence community, and in 2004, he exposed the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.

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The My Lai Massacre: A Somber Reflection on a Tragic Event

The My Lai Massacre: A Reflection on Tragedy The strawberry ice cream stand located near the ticket booth felt strangely out of place at the site of the My Lai massacre, one of the most horrific atrocities committed during the Vietnam War. The museum, intended to honor the memory of those lost, is surrounded by a desolate parking lot that held only a single vehicle. A large sign positioned at the…

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Rest In Fucking PISS.

I swear if I ever hear another Americunt white trash scumbag talk about "muh HuMaN rIgHtS" or "ChInA bAd" I'm going to lose it and shove this shit in their fucking pasty mayo face.

So this piece of human filth gets a slap on the wrist treatment and got to walk free like nothing happened but America whines about "hUmAn RiGhTs" in China and other Asian countries. The utter fucking hypocrisy stinks to high heaven.

Fuck his fakeass apology and his shitstain soul.

"As of 2018, Calley was living in Gainesville, Florida.[31] He died there on April 28, 2024, at the age of 80. His death was not reported until July 29, when it was discovered in public records. On his death certificate, a question asking if he had ever served "in [the] U.S. armed forces" was marked "no".[56]"

So this war criminal piece of shit Americunt wants us to accept his apology and that he's "sorry" yet couldn't even admit that he served in the US military where he committed the fucking war crime in the first place? Fuck out of here. If he has a grave I'd like to take a dump on it.

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