American soldiers went into a hamlet or village during the vitnam war. 300 to 550 villagers, men, women and children were dead. A rapes occurred. It was very, very nasty, very disillusioning for i can speak from experience. In the ten years afterwards, as americans confronted the fact that we were actually just like everyone else. We were not this special, lone ranger comein save the world in of world wars,. rebuilted afterwards with the marthal plan defendit during the coal war.