Most folks on here are too young to remember or know much about that war.
It was horrible. We were using napalm on villages with women and children, dropping bombs on non-military targets. American POW's were brutally tortured when captured. Amazing that here we are 30 years later and 1,807 Americans are still unaccounted for as MIA's.
A friend of the family was captured while on patrol. They tied his hands behind his back, put a burlap sack over his head, poured honey on his head from the top, then put a bunch of big rats inside the bag and tied it shut. He managed to escape a couple days later, but came home all fucked up in the head from it all.
It was another one of our fucked up wars that did nothing except make a lot of money for the military industrial complex.
58,226 American soldiers were killed.
1 Million Vietnamese troops killed and 4 Million Vietnamese civilians killed. 200,000 Vietnamese troops are still listed as MIA. 153,000 American troops were wounded, and 600,000 Vietnamese troops wounded.
