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The Good Guys: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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I Can't Understand You, I Can Only Explain Why They Did It

I gave her crackers and beef stew and water. It was the first food she'd had since she'd been taken away from her hamlet. She ate, standing and it was whimper, then eat, whimper,then eat. When she finished eating, she mumbled something o ventomes. And i told her in english, i can't understand you. I wish i could say that mau did get back to her village, that she managed o escape, but she didn't. The next day, sergeant meserve and the other men unceremoniously shot her, then knifed her three times as she was crawling away. Eric sen couldn't do a

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