The Story of a Shooting

The further they went into the village, the more bodies they found. Women and children were pushed into bunkers and grenades thrown after them. Children aged six or seven came toward them with their hands out stretched saying chop chop. They asked for food and candy they had received from other American soldiers on the two previous visits to the village. After one group of Vietnamese were killed in front of a hut, the first squad leader began telling his men that he didn't like what they were doing but that they had to obey orders. The villagers had to huddled together for safety but the Americans poured fire into them tearing their bodies apart. One man fired a machine gun at random, other using M16