It was the VC and the north that were the baby killers and the butchers of whole southern villages. You’re on video doing these evil things before the US soldiers arrived in-country. KZfaq videos prove this.

@@earlbrownlee2453 Vietnam war was their civil war! None of American business ! go home and kill your Red Indian !

William Calley Army commanders had advised the soldiers of Charlie Company that all who were found in the Son My area could be considered VC or active VC sympathizers, and ordered them to destroy the village. When they arrived shortly after dawn, the soldiers-led by Lieutenant William Calley-found no Viet Cong. Instead, they came across a quiet village of primarily women, children and older men preparing their breakfast rice. The villagers were rounded up into groups as the soldiers inspected their huts. Despite finding only a few weapons, Calley ordered his men to begin shooting the villagers.

I'm not sure that can be stated as fact as much as subjective opinion. You cant really compare the two conflicts, especially the context of afghanistan/iraq with the 15 saudi arabian hijackers and osama the saudi arabian mastermind; nor is it comparable to iraq given it was based on fabricated WMDs by Rafid Ahmed Alwan Al-janabi who admitted he fabricated the WMD evidence in 2011 interview with the guardian, which didn't really matter much anyway considering the CIA had already concluded in 2004 that he fabricated the claims. I'm pretty sure Iraq/Afghan vets didn't face the same treatment mainly due to the fact that 9/11 happened, and the western media in total unison told the world it was a bin laden hit within 24 hours the media solved the case, re-running old clips of osama firing a rifle in Afghanistan during the 80s soviet occupation era when US was funding Al Qaeda indirect through CIA Operation Cyclone. I mean the average US public citizen on the street is generally room temperature IQ when you start talking about any in-depth topic especially geopolitical or foreign policy, while there is a abundant amount of experts and people with credentials who are smart, but constitute small %s of the public. The Vietnam war, unfortunately was nothing but a proxy war for the US/Soviet union. Amazingly nobody cared when vietnam reunified as socialist. The world didn't end, and nobody gave two shts. Crazy to imagine but, common sense would dictate it doesn't matter it was just a exercise for defense contractors etc to test military equipment and munitions I guess.

I was in Chu Lai 65-66, Combat Engineer, welcome home

@@rudymartinez5196 Welcome Home to you Brother. I was a cook, for some reason. I never figured out why but it was an okay MOS. At least by the time I got there, there was a nice mess hall. And huts for us.

When I returned to stateside in “66” we were advised to not wear our uniforms while traveling home.

@@rudymartinez5196 First, Welcome Home Brother. I think I heard what you said from several Vets about wearing different clothes going home. But I didn’t have any civies. In fact, when I went on R&R, I had to borrow some. And like I said, I wasn’t hassled coming home.