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Summary of the My Lai massacre I�m aware that this is supposed to be a summary of the chapter, and I will do my best to try and include all the information I can from the chapter, but it�s just impossible not to state my opinion. I mean, Americans walked into My Lai, unfeared because people thought they had just come to get information. They SHOULD have been feared, now shouldn�t they? The Charlie Company waltzed in�and said to themselves �wee-haw� and viola. Slaughter time. Mr. William Calley, also known as Satan, pointed and said �kill the gooks!� And they did. Very much so. They herded My Lai citizens into a ditch and had a grand ol� time dropping a few clusters of grenades and firing at children and women as they cried for mercy and such and such. In fact, some soldiers were having such a grand old time, they were laughing as they slaughtered people. Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot, noticed what was going on and started marking the wounded with smoke so they could be picked up later. Charlie Company waltzed along, saw the smoke near a body of a wounded little girl and spared a little ammo to make a little girl flambe. They even marched people over to a canal and had a bit of target practice there. The only way a small family survived that slaughter is by going into the canal and getting shielded by the bodies of the dead. Excuse me? And the shocking thing isn�t just this, it�s that our buddy Calley got off with three years of jail time and with a whole crapload of soldiers saying �You go, boy!� at his trial. What? Come again? I�m sorry, so the person that lead a slaughter on an entire population of a town can just skip out of jail while someone who robbed a grocery store serves twice his time? And people were actually DIVIDED on the fairness of his case. Some said that it �undermined the fighting men.� What!? Calley undermined the fighting men, not justice. CALLEY deserved to be shoved into that ditch to be turned into tiny little Calley-bits. But Calley is not the only one to blame. Some said that it was the superiors who were to blame. Well, them too. They were stupid enough to fill the soldier�s head with the idea that everything in My Lai was to be shot, shot, and shot some more. Mr. Medina basically said �Here�s some guns. Go kill stuff. A lot of stuff. Make sure you kill enough stuff.� Maybe there was a scoreboard in the town. Maybe the person who got first place one a prize. A medal, probably. �For killing in cold blood.� What do you think they�d call that badge? Oh yes, the America badge. Go America. Whoo. And get this, after this whole big load of steaming bullshit, it was covered up. Quite well. Yay. The radio messages from that day were altered, and the death count was delayed. They were probably counting up the scores. There were three investigations and twenty months before the truth was learned. What!? How!? Well, apparently, the media didn�t like Mr. Ridenhour�s testimony or Mr. Hurst�s bloody slideshow. Too f�ing bad, it�s the truth. How can you cover THAT up? The chapter goes into a whole thing about how it violated the rules of war, that the Geneva convention stopped the killing of unarmed civilians, rape and other atrocities. Guess our boys in Charlie Company didn�t catch that part. Or so says Calley. He states that all he knew was to follow orders. Guess he was absent when morals and�oh, HUMANITY was passed out. �They told us to! Don�t blame us!� What are you, three? You got the gun, you shot the gun, you killed people. Your superiors are stupid, too, but so are you! YOU did the killing, YOU saw the blood splatter, TAKE SOME F�ING RESPONSIBILITY! Then the chapter talks about how it could have happened. Oh, oh, I know! We handed a gun to morons and said �Go shoot some gooks! Wahoo!� Apparently, the soldiers were pissed at getting themselves blow to itty bitty pieces by well-placed mines, some of which were supposedly American. Well�supposedly to people besides the soldiers. How dare you criticize the army! They�re always right! Yeah, ha ha ha�no. It�s that kind of thinking that caused the murder in the first place. Aggravation and stupidity. Recipe for disaster? Apparently. Go America. We f�ed it up big time. <~~Back to Rants |