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The World is Thinking

Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss

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carolineb
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Posted: 08.13.06, 02:36 PM
I found Sallah and Weiss’s talk to be so tragic. They have uncovered and published the terrible atrocities of the Tiger Force platoon in Vietnam, where US soldiers killed thousands of unarmed women and children with “reckless abandon.” Their description of soldiers wearing necklaces made of human ears reveals the barbarity of the crimes. At the same time, in interviewing former soldiers they really try to understand how this happened: Many were 18-20 year old kids, terrified by the war’s extreme horror and stress, and who spent the rest of their lives wrecked with guilt and pain for the brutalities they committed.
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