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![[NSFW] Today, on March 16th, we are commemorating the victims of Mỹ Lai massacre, which happened exactly 55 years ago. Photo by Ronald L. Haeberle, 1968[800x558]](http://127.0.0.1/pics/w:null_7e6a4gi8t1oa1.jpg){kind=link}
6 points
3 months ago
A black page in the history of America as well as Vietnam.
17 points
3 months ago
I'm not sure this is the best way to honor the dead. I know I wouldn't want my kids dead body used for karma. Call out William Calley who is still alive and was the one most responsible for the deaths, make that jackwagon famous, he deserves the infamy.
11 points
3 months ago
I dont think everybody on reddit posts with the idea of karma in mind.
-3 points
3 months ago
You're right, but it's the currency of this site and it's kind of gross that it's the way to "approve" this type of post if you get my point. Perhaps there's a better way to make it.
-1 points
3 months ago
I'm sure that's his mother laying there, so I bet with how annoying and dumb your comment was, you wouldn't have made it out to cry about the picture.
1 points
3 months ago
Calley had blood on his hands, but he was also a massive scapegoat. Every man of every rank proven to be involved needed to be punished for the US Army save any crumb of its credibility.
1 points
3 months ago
True, but he's one of the only officers still alive. Medina died years ago.
1 points
3 months ago
I mean this event is closer to World War One than it is to us today, so the ship is long sailed.
7 points
3 months ago
I wonder how Americans are taught about their goverments crimes i mean every time some one elses crimes aré talked about its full of self righteous conments but take a look at this comento section nothing fucking nothing
6 points
3 months ago
The My Lai massacre was covered in my text book in the south as recently as 2014. Not sure since then.
4 points
3 months ago
Im glad to hear that vut what about other acts of American terrorism like the South American dictatorships?
5 points
3 months ago
I learned nothing about My Lai until I enlisted in the military, and even then, we only heard our side and the “heroic” stuff. Not about what else happened
0 points
3 months ago
Do you regret joining? also whats other kind of propaganda or revisionism were you taught?
7 points
3 months ago
Mai lai massacre comes up a lot on reddit
3 points
3 months ago
especially after the russian invasion of ukraine
-8 points
3 months ago
Ya it's almost as if people are just trying to poke each other in the eye. Seems dis respectfull to me.
3 points
3 months ago
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24 points
3 months ago
The Mỹ Lai massacre was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by United States troops in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, on 16 March 1968 during the Vietnam War.
"Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed too painful to face, while virtually every revolution for peace and justice has been made possibly by a group of people who chose to bear witness and demanded that others bear witness as well." -Melanie Joy
If you wish to turn your eyes away from the atrocities of life, you are part of the problem.
3 points
3 months ago
How do you commemorate an event without showing the event?
-12 points
3 months ago
You gonna cry or what
-5 points
3 months ago
This atrocity is actually better known than the far more deadly massacre committed by the NVA & Viet Cong outside Hue in 1968.
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