The My Lai Massacre | History

[@steveharveysmustache3988]

I remember seeing a video from a Vietnam veteran talking about his experience and he said “the Viet cong didn’t have to recruit anyone, just send a marine division through a village and they had all the recruits they needed in the survivors”

[@rhenaldiwijaya7778]

@Shandy yeah cuz Americans are basically bullies of the world. Obv the people of Vietnam had to defend their country and ur evil country label it as “fighting against evil”

[@mrsx7944]

@@rhenaldiwijaya7778 you sound like a fool. If you think Americans are "bullies' go to North Korea and see how they treat their own citizens.

[@siddharthsudarshanpandey325]

@@mrsx7944 The guy did such a good comment and all you have are whodunits against it? Doesn't matter whether its north korea or USA ...it is the same. Government against people. Rich against poor. Kings against pawns. That is what scares me.

[@mrsx7944]

@@siddharthsudarshanpandey325 the US is miles ahead of how it treats it's citizens, civil rights, etc. compared to somewhere like NK. That's all I meant.

[@goldgrams2524]

@@mrsx7944 research the my lai massacre. American troops rounding up kids and women and shooting them to death. Over 500 people. Civilians. Google the pics. They have tons of videos from vietnam vets admitting it was standard operating procedure to kill kids. They would do it out of boredom

[@jeffgersbach4460]

My Grandfather was Judge Reid Kennedy, who was the Judge who found Lt. Calley guilty. I am very proud that he was one of the few people in the military to step up and hold soldiers accountable for those things. When he passed away we found boxes filled with death threats from US Vets and Citizens claiming him to be a traitor

[@jodove2569]

A man of integrity. I'm proud and never knew him. I'm sure there are many more examples where he stood tall and made the right (often difficult) choice. Those decisions were made many times before on smaller scales.

[@mrsx7944]

Wow that is something. Have you considered donating those things to a museum? A lot of museums have Vietnam exhibits.

[@GiordanDiodato]

your grandfather took the flak for what was right. That makes him more of a hero than anyone who slaughtered those innocent people.

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@jodove2569 Hugh Thompson, the man who literally used a helicopter to shield some of the villagers.

[@sneakysasquatch6014]

God bless him oh I’m sorry he had to go through the hate for something that needed to be done the truth needs to come out about politicians involved military officials involved

[@TuanMinh-qc6hr]

I am Vietnamese and I am very sad. Thank you for helping us tell the truth

[@hectichazerdus]

@Larsson one mans terrorist is another mans hero

[@TheChiefEng]

@IMxYOURxDADDY And? Americans were in Vietnam. They had no business doing there. It was the usual pathetic American cowardice of not allowing people to choose their own fate. There were no American heroes in Vietnam, except maybe for the US troops that saved locals from the stupid actions of the bunch of cowards at My Lai.

[@koffanatics2397]

@IMxYOURxDADDY the childrens too?

[@will6412]

TheChiefEng how is it cowardice of not allowing people to choose their own fate? You are probably some butthurt Vietnamese that has given into the propaganda. Your saying it is cowardice to fight for freedom? Idiotic

[@yuckitsjj]

blukeyify say it louder for the people in the back

[@Mark-en8hj]

U.S.A always blame what other nations for bad dids but they ignore theyre own mistakes

[@indahooddererste]

the us army even tried to hide it nearly 30 years after the nürnberg trials where they focused on the atrocities of another nation.

[@bradquinn4500]

That isn't true. It's a tough topic and it will forever haunt us. We will always be sorry for what we did for violating the uniform of military justice but there is no nation free of shame. I am still proud to be an American.

[@Minamoto_1]

@@bradquinn4500 true. We should not be ashamed for actions of the individuals.

[@chaosXP3RT]

The History Channel is an American TV Station in the USA. Millions of Americans know and do not ignore. Lol your so stupid and ignorant

[@sandguy134burns7]

Jan B that was not the Is army that was the Marines

[@linlinlinoxo4321]

I’m Vietnamese and this hits me so hard. I’m literally crying as I type this. This world is so cruel and it’s frightening how easily people will commit horrible acts when given the opportunity

[@thecrusader8247]

I’m sorry

[@dannyverdant]

My family fled from Vietnam into Thailand due to incidents like Pinkville. They were tribal people and were almost forced by the U.S army to spy on their own people including the vietnamese.

[@linlinlinoxo4321]

@@dannyverdant I’m so sorry that happened to your family... our people have been thru so much. My grandma used to tell me stories about how everything was taken away from her and she would hide in the ground holding her children. It breaks my heart everytime I think about her and all the people who lived thru that

[@dieselpatchesisthebiggay1253]

@@thecrusader8247 Vietnam troops were not good either they treated pows like rats they brutally killed the army with booby traps I’m not defending america but dude lol

[@AyushSingh-nn3mq]

Please hold yourself friend. We will rise together in this world.

[@SeanKL107]

As an American, this brings me great shame.

[@peterlawlor499]

No shame is brought to those who didn't do wrong only to those who deny,did or who in the us government who ordered it or who gave such a lite sentence to those monsters

[@TheMythOfTheThickSix]

Why you didnt do it

[@AbhishekSingh-pp1ks]

It shouldn't, blame the individuals not the country.

[@Jprager]

Sean Kratovil-Lavelle every county around the world has done there fair share of destruction. You just never hear about it, and since the US is such a staple in the modern era we get pulverized by every single other nation.

[@azzlaird5541]

I wouldn’t believe the media man, look how they treated the Americans any chance they got or the massacres perpetrated by the Koreans

[@vacantstairs1]

I wouldn't be suprised if this was just the one they got caught with.

[@USMCLP]

Watch the Winter Soldier documentary from 1972. You’ll be astonished how often things like this really happened in ‘Nam.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Blake McAndless yeah, there was also the massacres done by the Tiger Force in ‘67 which none of them were ever held accountable for, despite the well documented systematic killings and rapes of innocent Vietnamese civilians.

[@tabo01]

it was most likely policy.

[@cycologist7069]

According to some Vietnam vets I used to work with back in the 90s, My lai only scratched the surface.

[@shanefreund6088]

Vietcong would use the cover of villages to put the US between a rock and a hard place. Innocent rice farmer by day and Viet cong insurgent by night. You know what the Viet cong did to villages that cooperated with the US? Same exact thing you see in the video. The video also failed to mention Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who landed between a group of villagers and Americans and ordered his gunner to fire on American soldiers if they fired on the civilians.

[@caesar4857]

You seem to learn more things on KZbin History videos than in History classes in school...

[@jessicamitchell6275]

Or maybe you just weren't paying attention in history class. I am viewing this video to use in my US History class. I teach it every year.

[@Boofus90]

Jessica Mitchell Or perhaps it’s only YOU. The education system treats history as a joke (it’s not the 3 main courses that are primarily focused on). If it weren’t for KZbin or the internet many of us would be as naive and ignorant to history as many students today.

[@jessicamitchell6275]

Every teacher I have ever worked with has taught the My Lai Massacre.

[@minhnguyenduc7631]

Do you know tianmen And 1979

[@sapphirecharm01]

@@jessicamitchell6275 or maybe not all history classes teach the same thing?

[@ElCap1van]

never learned about this in school in the 80s wonder why??

[@knightofstruggle685]

why would your government tell you this,the always tell you that they are the good guys and they are the bad

[@khoanguyenavia]

The US Government covered that up

[@khoanguyenavia]

They covered that up to stop the outrage from its own citizen and the rest of the world. From what I've heard, a lot of guys was put on trial but only one was found guilty and was paroled a few years after

[@classified5554]

It's called whitewashing. Most governments do this

[@user-vb1rv2lz5l]

Navi Blue cuz the Americans are trying to cover this up

[@RYgamingTV]

Not just the men.. but the women and children too

[@senjuebro]

Anakin Skywalker?

[@RYgamingTV]

;)

[@FRISHR]

and infants.

[@oldleatherhandsfriends4053]

Sand...I hate it!....it gets ever where.

[@JeanLucCaptain]

seriously? star wars jokes?

[@nakulsharda6771]

Done by a country that was protecting "Democracy" in Vietnam.

[@scholarssolutions6735]

Funny how pretty much all of America’s “democracy efforts” end up with them committing crimes against humanity…

[@JNB0723]

If by democracy you mean "installing a dictator like usual to avoid communism" and sprinkle in some good ol' american racism then yeah.

[@alanze18]

you will never see that In Hollywood, the only thing you will see is RAMBO.

[@jeremymullins1294]

um... Platoon?

[@inserthere6387]

check out platoon

[@Liqueeee]

@themailman43 u victim of propaganda

[@gilgamesh8334]

themailman43 Hundreds of thousands if not millions were killed by the US, so what’s your point again ? Oh and in the Middle East, millions were murdered via unjustified and illegal invasions, entire democratic governments overthrown because "American interests". The US is by far the biggest warmongering nation on earth

[@zIkA835]

@themailman43 I'm no expert but I believe that's Whataboutism and since we're doing that. The USA has killed 20-30 million people since WW2 and a good third of them were civilians. They're involved in regime changes(invasions,coups,sabotage and election fraud) all around the globe. Today it's Venezuela,Yemen and Syria(not the first time) but in the past 70 years it was Laos,Vietnam,Cambodia,Afghanistan,Egypt,Iraq,Iran,Guatemala,Chile,Yugoslavia,Russia,Indonesia,Cuba,Grenada,Lebanon,Congo,Tibet,Haiti,Dominican Republic,Brazil,Greece,Bolivia,Poland,El Salvador,Nicaragua and Libya(I'm sure I've missed some) USA is a fascist regime in disguise. The sooner it crumbles the better.

[@ChelloMargariti]

I have a son that is about to turn four years old, he recently hurt his finger when he tried to shut the door to my car. It’s the most painful thing he has experienced so far and to see him in such pain and to hear him say that he wants the pain to go away, not understanding why I cant take away the pain, that really made me feel horrible. The fact that a grown man under any circumstance could cause a child pain like what is described in this video makes me want to puke. The people in this massacre that deribelately hurt Vietnamese children were monsters and I hope they where tormented by memories of that day.

[@gabrielarambula4465]

"A soldier is trained to kill, but a soldier is not trained to murder." - Hugh Thompson Jr., the helicopter pilot who intervened during the My Lai and is credited with ending the killings

[@texaspete33]

Churchill is the last man you want to quote when talking about invading forces slaughtering innocent native people.

[@someguy-bv3il]

Well technically he didn't "slaughter" them, he "starved" them.

[@teenxopiumrickowens]

@@someguy-bv3il still resulted in death

[@someguy-bv3il]

@@teenxopiumrickowens oh my comment was just an inappropriate unfunny joke, I think I was drunk when I wrote it.

[@Blank-km4qr]

Churchill was a hero

[@RahulYadav-vd1eq]

Churchill was monster

[@yaboidoc5818]

We should remember Hugh Thompson, the hero that saved 20,000 lives by ending the operation, threatening to shoot any American soldier who killed a civilian with him helicopter.

[@dustypluskrat7423]

Wasn’t he immediately grounded and put under investigation for attempting to stop the massacre while the ones who ordered it were still running free until the government had to investigate things once the story got out? Correct me if wrong.

[@yaboidoc5818]

@@dustypluskrat7423 I can’t remember exactly what happened, but this sounds about right

[@royalroyal2210]

​@@yaboidoc5818sounds about American

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@dustypluskrat7423 it wouldn't surprise me also the one in charge died before he could be tried.

[@beardedloon77]

20,000? Typical of an American to exaggerate in such a huge way, Hugh Thompson was indeed a hero, but even he stated that he managed to get 12-15 people to safety, honestly 20,000 he was in a helicopter not an aircraft carrier.

[@bhl9532]

Look at the American My Lai deniers in the comment, truely reflect the intellect and morality of this nation. My Lai is located in South Vietnam, funny that this was how they "protected" the South Vietnamese from North Vietnamese agression. ARVN stood by watching happily, as the American and Korean committed genocide on their rural population (The Australian and New Zealander were better in comparison, tho)

[@davidgarcia-hq3el]

When the North Vietnamese man up to what they did at Hue, killing hundreds if not thousands of civilians, then I may be sympathetic to what happened at My Lai. But they’ve hush-hushed it all these years right? The marines that were there know what took place and civilians too but they can’t be open about it right? You know what would happen to them so shut up.

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@davidgarcia-hq3el it doesn't matter. it shows that both the North and South Vietnamese governments were terrible

[@comradekenobi6908]

​@GiordanDiodato uhhh dude this is the American troops that committed it

[@kevindecara9237]

Makes me sick. The Soldiers who took part in this should have face a firing squad.

[@goosgunner941]

Kevin DeCara they had orders.... even if they are wrong they are still orders. Yes this village massacre was horrible but have you read what happened to Americans in the camps of north Vietnam ?

[@sapphirecharm01]

Only one guy faced 3 years

[@OrganicDolphin]

Guspower Guspower many of the Wehrmacht and even SS officers were put to death after WW2. They were just following orders too, some were even drafted. But does that make it right?

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Guspower Guspower well it’s different when you are a POW being held by people who genuinely believe you to be an evil force preventing them from uniting their nation in the shortest amount of time possible while causing the least amount of casualties. These Americans troop literally slaughtered a bunch of defenseless, innocent men, women, children and babies; in what way is that defendable, doesn’t matter what their orders were it should condemned at all costs.

[@stupidcommentmaker]

They never will because the US government has nothing to gain from punishing its own.

[@newtonsthirdlawofmot]

America should still be sorry for this incident. The perpetrators should've got life imprisonment. Poor civilians. May they rest in peace.

[@grumpyyoungmen6276]

Lars we are very ashamed of what happened at the massacre

[@hadbetterdays8118]

Those poor children

[@Kawmbat_Veteran]

Meh, they're dead and we aren't

[@max-ii5jy]

Anon Ymous amazing argument, edgy cretin

[@tokugawaclan5870]

They never apologized for what they did

[@demongrenade2748]

Pretty slick editing

[@haseenabadshah5381]

404 likes,comment not found

[@edgemaxxer1573]

@@haseenabadshah5381 nice joke

[@tomdid1]

That's what you took from this?

[@ShubhamPednekarYt]

Feels like cod intro

[@blng7597]

It’s a shame American troops try to “cover up” the disgusting soldiers who raped and killed women and young girls. Those soldiers are disgusting in itself, selfish, cruel, crooks, deserve to rot in prison, and does not belong in the American army

[@godzilladude1231]

I was a Ranger and even I think that this was tragic and depressing slaughter. Every soldier must always know that shooting someone, even if he or she is shooting back at you, is never a good thing. Murder is never justified. As a soldier I know that I kill to help others, but that doesnt mean it was “okay” or heroic. But what those soldiers did in My Lai is even more barbaric since none were even shooting at them. You cannot justify murder if the person you just killed is an infant.

[@pingpong5877]

Better safe than sorry is what I always say.

[@henryseidel5469]

@@pingpong5877 Hope your family will never have a baby. What a digusting remark.

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@pingpong5877 be sure to remember this comment when the Chinese invaded you :)

[@MrMM-bm5fo]

I disagree. Not on what happened in My Lai, but on murder and even executions not being justified. There’s some people in this world who’ve commuted acts so evil and atrocious(Even taking sadistic pleasure in them) that they’d ought to either get the death penalty or life sentencing as punishment. If you disagree, then alright. To each their own, but I stand with my beliefs as you do yours.

[@bdstudios6088]

@@MrMM-bm5fo right but let’s make one thing very clear: the My Lai Massacre, where children and mothers and elderly people were r*ped and killed, was absolutely wrong and any human who is not a sociopath would agree.

[@harborpatrol]

Private First Corporal ??? PFC = Private First Class...

[@arvitkopliku7232]

Harbormaster North Shore I know right how accurate is this?

[@kevinrivera40]

Harbormaster North Shore That's what i thought too

[@c.manuell0202]

It's probably equivalent to a lance sergeant.

[@niamatullah939]

Yea i was like wtf

[@arc1756]

With a small and simple mistake can you even trust a documentary?

[@modestmouse117]

Churchill 'starved' Bengal region in India and killed about 2.1 million.

[@shubhamdwivedi5150]

4 million

[@karlchen9745]

Lex Zan “survival of England” Well, I’m quite sure that Britain had a vast empire that could sustain itself, rather than draining the precious resources from India that they “desperately” needed.

[@praveenpnair9957]

When some one asked him about this then his reply was... Why isn't Gandhi dead

[@Brandon210-q4n]

Not the subject

[@Brandon210-q4n]

That attitude is why your British Empire fell.

[@michaelesparza4308]

I love America, but no nation is free of shame.

[@sonamk301]

Life Is Strange true

[@yoyoyeah9083]

what about sealand?

[@peterlawlor499]

how could you love a nation that killed thousands of not just Vietnamese but native american's like the Siox and eithen other american's

[@stenyethanmathews945]

Problem is, American does not have much shame.

[@misterrex684]

wtf should they be ashamed for? if you think like that, can americans call themself smart just because of all the american inventors and the progress they brought, and just take credit for it? today americans had no influence on the past.

[@heekyungkim8147]

america should never interfere with vietnam in the first place.

[@thesgscout6112]

Camarillo Rap Star I don’t even think that true, the south back then was even worst then the north because Ngo Dinh Diem at that time was a dictator of the south kill so many civilian because he rather kill wrong then let one communist escape, thing got so bad that many people in the south turn to communist side and fight for there country. Ngo Dinh Diem also a puppet of American to stop communist, and when thing got so bad the CIA Assassination all his family to stop the act of dictator

[@hopha1403]

@@camarillorapstar715 and my boy, that point is all about what America want u to think. Son of France, break Geneva conference because there wouldn't have anychance for winning the election, plus only dare to do it when have Us on the side. 'Were begged for the south’.. Cant be more hilarious

[@Ozone.345]

The American people didn’t want it either which is we me up false statistics about casualties and other things

[@fcogalvi7814]

@@camarillorapstar715 politics don´t work that way, it seems that you were told the oversimplified story so you can understand it

[@CrazyNormie3457]

That's clear today, but hindsight is 20/20.

[@Victor-kt6qn]

The fact that's there's people that still try to justify this massacre..

[@gihan9319]

There's also statements from Hugh Thompson, a US helicopter pilot. He had seen a group of soldiers firing into the villagers, and parked his heli between his own soldiers and the civilians. He had also helped evacuate wounded civilians.

[@dariengash3116]

Yall are more worried about an acronym more than the innocent lives lost/killed on this day...

[@mizzury54]

I agree . Of course our modern day False Flag idiots will look for any inconsistency or error to claim prove something didn't really happen.

[@Monopod209]

DarienGash311 .01% of the global massacres that happened globally nobody is excluded

[@DoktrDub]

It’s a shame, no money or bribe on earth can replace those lives, sadly all countries are guilty of some very heinous stuff throughout history and currently

[@Kawmbat_Veteran]

@@DoktrDub But people only want to hate Americans for it because they are biased pieces of trash. No wonder why most countries aren't free, they are too focused on hating us to worry about their own countries.

[@dingleberry4234]

@@Kawmbat_Veteran huh? Most countries aren’t free? That’s not true lol wtf

[@thepowerlies]

They have probably done a lot more of these messed up crimes that no one got to know about

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍You b e t mate !!! The d a r k figure is always 100 x more than the tip of the iceberg . . .

[@thymeparsley2051]

​@@AL_THOMAS_777 Yep, but still there are merciless human beings denying this event if you have a quick look at the comment section. Disgusting!

[@zmaj12321]

It's basically been confirmed that the reason My Lai become so infamous was because of the photographs. Those are the only reason why the massacre wasn't hidden from the public, although the U.S. did try to at first.

[@yesthisismew]

In Germany, we learn about WWII 2 years in several lectures. We remember of the sins of our ancestors. We do not take this burden as if it was our own but at the same time we do not celebrate german history. Most of the time in history, there is less to be proud of than to learn of. I hope this is a feeling that comes to the USA one day

[@borgerchainsaw1016]

Germany may have had a couple of lows but I think they should celebrate some of their history, parts of it are pretty cool

[@yesthisismew]

@@borgerchainsaw1016 yes it is, but in the first place we should learn. the achievements of my ancestors do not come from my efforts

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@kaynbred3882 ok

[@koffanatics2397]

@@kaynbred3882 edgy

[@jaeehovaa]

I mean yeah, but what Germany did was next level.

[@KR-te8kw]

I learned about this in my high school U.S. history class and it stayed with me for awhile😥😰

[@troyraymund8256]

It really hurts as a South East Asian to learn such terrible things happened in our region by the hands of these foreign occupiers. I can only hope that these Vietnamese survivors find peace and justice.

[@arnie9913]

Allthough what you say is true, the VC was doing the same thing if not worse to South Vietnamese people. And I am of vietnamese descent.

[@nhunghoang4384]

@@arnie9913 bạn là người gốc việt và đã theo lính mỹ sang mỹ? Vậy cho hỏi bạn có cảm giác gì khi cha ông của bạn bán đất nước giúp đỡ những kẻ thảm sát này vậy

[@mozambique9113]

South vietnamese gov is a group of oligarch people

[@rikuhell8076]

Dont worry these vietnamese who still alive to 2022 , pay back by support russia , call putin the Hero , laugh at ukraina lmao

[@duykhang817]

@@arnie9913 Can you give me some evidence? VC did not do that, if they do that, why the villager want to help them? remember, Vietcong is Vietnamese and they do not kill Vietnamese. USA is an invader, nothing more, nothing less

[@meowy7252]

Now, they dare to call others terrorists.🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Allin7days]

“A nation without conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.” - W. Churchill

[@Foxrich99]

Oh wow, its almost as if we watched the same clip or something

[@user-mb2vh6xt2q]

So basicly America is doomed

[@shashiram9889]

he killed 4 million indians

[@franzibe5620]

Allin7days as if the british empire is better than america

[@eggshen6716]

Lmao imagine taking moral advice from Churchill

[@gilunkimjung1454]

As Vietnamese We will forgive but never forget

[@vic50015]

And you never should.

[@borgerchainsaw1016]

sorry 😞

[@davidlee6752]

you are not those victims, how can you forgive the killers for them? especially when this evil america commits the same crime over and over in different countries, fight back and make them pay for what they did, otherwise, the tragedy will never end.

[@nox6948]

why forgive?

[@kaodraeon6060]

@@nox6948 hue massacre is why they have to forgive

[@dongtrinhduc]

i am from vietnam and my grandmother died in this bloody event =(((

[@erlanggaprasetyo1606]

Private first corporal ruined the video

[@cabral_del_elpaso]

Real?

[@RedPilgrim.]

The narrater probably don't know what a PFC stands for...

[@erlanggaprasetyo1606]

Red Pilgrim that's because this so called 'history' channel are run by a bunch of noobs

[@BBRRTT98]

I think they were just reading the letter that the guy wrote

[@erlanggaprasetyo1606]

Hannibal IboneK for the guy who served in the military, that's highly unlikely

[@ludwigvanbeethoven6853]

This story is what goes through my mind when I see Americans say "Thank you for your service." to their Vietnam vets.

[@whatever5922]

I find it ridiculous that they say that.. in my country it would be odd to mention that

[@Wandererofrealmz]

@Jon Maier ah yes, we are definitely in the right position to call people heathens after we murdered innocent civilians for no good reason

[@dingleberry4234]

@Jon Maier yes because that’s a metric of being civilized

[@prs_81]

@Jon Maier and which country are they from btw?

[@mystery4561]

Because not every vet did it?

[@Draxindustries1]

One of the reasons the USA is hated the world over. ..

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

Germany is N O better . . . you see: GER = 3rd Reich. . . USA = 4th Reich . . . (Jim Marrs)

[@justhereforthememes536]

This is why you don’t blindly worship the military. Just because they aren’t doing this to you doesn’t mean they’re not doing it at all

[@macandcheese495]

My great uncle was a soldier in Vietnam, I never knew about this. I am truly sorry.

[@catgrannyan7300]

My Lai was just the one that went public. Imagine....

[@thymeparsley2051]

It is sad there were and are so much many events like this happening. Not all of them comes to light though.

[@greyandperiwrinkality]

The USA: We want to give out freedom and liberty to everyone! Also the USA:

[@Truthorfib]

I went here because of Seymour Hersh. I watched an interview of him talking about this and its insane how they brought children in a ditch and shot them. A soldier was even confused because when he heard his officer say to take care of the children he played with them. But the officer said what are you doing? The officer meant to shoot the child 😭 One child tried to climb out of the ditch and the soldier was being told to shoot the kid but the soldier refused and the officer shot the kid on the head 😭

[@cuocsongvungven]

Thanks for making this video !

[@Zroh86]

the saddest thing is that this is not "one time thing". Its mere one of many incidents unluckly for those kind of "soldiers" caught on tape and went public. Three and half years under house arrest sentence speaks for it self.

[@parthoroy9141]

One of the most shameful chapters in modern U.S. History

[@trznvive1]

The US is a tyrant. This is a chapter of many books 📖

[@stormtroopercommander7947]

I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees. **the trees are speaking Vietnamese**

[@veknone9781]

Well, tell the trees in Vietnam that you apologize to the victims of the My Lai massacre

[@aussiebinchicken3037]

the trees are getting napalmed

[@Yzzo1]

Made me laugh

[@dapchaibia728]

Xin chào đồng chí

[@itssomeoneelse]

@@dapchaibia728 lmao

[@gdawg1585]

I remember learning about this in U.S. History in 7th grade in the spring of 2018 we had just started learning about Vietnam and we learned about this event and I was horrified so was everyone else in the class

[@scholarssolutions6735]

Lucky that you at least learned it. None of my classmates learned it or any atrocities committed by the USA in Vietnam, Korea, or Iraq.

[@eli4984]

@@scholarssolutions6735 and now in Yemen.

[@blackearl7891]

The my lai massacre was disgusting, but the aftermath just adds insult to injury.

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

By far one of the darkest chapters in our history, and yet so few even know or acknowledge it...

[@itsmeomun]

Having learned this back in Vietnam when I was in 9th grade, it did occur to my in the most heartbreaking ways and to an extent, deeply resentful on just how ruthless the American soldiers were to our own people, our blood. Even until now it remains one of the most traumatic experiences seeing this as a 14 year old student, listening to my teacher talking about it in the most suppressed ways possible.

[@Ironmike-tg5nb]

maikhanh vuhoang They tell you how many people were killed by the NVA when the US evacuated their troops and how desperate the South Vietnamese civilians were to leave the area? Not to mention how many US troops were tortured by the NVA which violated the Geneva Convention.

[@spleen5527]

US troops tortured civilians. Look up Phoenix program. Most civilians were killed by US bombing.

[@lookingfortruth59]

King Steve Yes!

[@3rdgr2t11]

maikhanh vuhoang i am a us miliatary supporter how ever i belive a court martiel is in orderd

[@therealayatollah2678]

The blame lies with your government. Read more into the actually history of the whole century, and less on the propaganda filtered through your ears as a child. Facts don't care about your feelings.

[@alexe781]

I graduated from the same High School in Miami, FL where Calley attended in 77'. While taking Part in Desert Storm in Iraq in 1990, with the 101sr Airborne, I told my guys that if I saw anyone abusing any women or children, then they would have to answer to me, and believe me, it wouldn't have been Pretty.

[@buddyollie7400]

Tragic....

[@Desertpuma]

Understatement

[@peterlawlor499]

Amen

[@mogabriel5238]

Genocide

[@CriticalMaster95]

The perpetrators shouldn't have been able to get away with this. They should've been properly punished for what they did.

[@haithkx]

Life magazine covered this massacre as it unfolded. I was 10 years old when I saw those photographs. Even at that age, I was horror stricken at what I was seeing. Pictures of a group of women and children huddled together, the little ones hiding behind their mothers and grandmothers in one photo, those same individuals sprawled in a pile on the ground riddled with gunshot wounds, bloodied, dead, recognizable by the clothing they wore in the first photograph. Another picture of a child dead on a dirt road, an old man lying next to his bicycle. I wish I hadn't seen those images, they haunt me 55 years later, burned into my memory, breaking my heart again and again, making me wonder what kind of devils human beings are.....

[@veknone9781]

I just want to say: "America soilders in that massacre, are you happy now devil?"

[@Kawmbat_Veteran]

Sure are. They're dead and I'm not. To the victor go the spoils, and those spoils are continuing my life. Theirs... not so much. LOL

[@jimmydeanismydadcharlieisf4119]

cough cough devil dogs cough

[@jimmydeanismydadcharlieisf4119]

@@teenxopiumrickowens idk if i knew that when i wrote it but thanks i might have and since it was like military i thought to make a really unfunny marine joke but thanks anyways man have a good day

[@buzifalus]

@@Kawmbat_Veteran you were never really threathned to begin with. vietnamese werent going to invade america and kill everyone. you are just a pawn for the sick global foreign policy playing Monopoly on our (non US citizens) head. That wheel will turn too one day

[@juggernauttoast]

This event was atrocious, it makes me sad knowing my country did something this dishonorable. The cinematography on this video is amazing though

[@n8dog_276]

The sad truth is, that nearly every country in history has committed such atrocities as this one, but most never surface to the public eye!

[@jeremycampbell1035]

This is America. We should hold ourselves to the highest standard. Not the standards set by every other Country.

[@yj9032]

Jeremy Campbell American hypocrisy at play

[@maxg8766]

Jayesh Y How?

[@tunnelrat5804]

N8DOG_27 U forgot Japan

[@jacobblack2696]

Not Every bro not Australia not new Zealand not Iceland etc

[@itzelmontalvo6645]

I do not see many people praising Ridenhour for the brave and hero he was.

[@oregon6117]

I watched a documentary about a GI who was involved in these killings and he said he killed babies and elderly people and cut off ears and tongues for trophies which was pretty sick.

[@mrthomasfritz]

"A country without a conscience is a country without a soul, and a country without a soul is a country that cannot survive." -Winston Churchill

[@bigman8622]

“We aren’t learning about this in school” I’m in school rn and we are watching this video because we are learning about it 🤨

[@dustypluskrat7423]

The same kids typing that are the same ones that asked “why are we learning this, this happens decades ago” and thus didn’t pay any attention in class.

[@spider6660]

I remember how much Americans screamed in the 9/11 attack. While the US bombed several countries in this world in the name of "freedom"

[@venomsnake9975]

9/11 is nothing (Respect for the Victims, not USA), USA likes to be the victim, so they can bomb and kill in more countries, but if Russia, China, Etc does it. Then they are evil, but if usa does it, then they are the good guys?

[@Mr_Mistah]

I see nothing wrong with that

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@Mr_Mistah you see nothing wrong at killing innocent people?

[@Mr_Mistah]

@@GiordanDiodato Correct

[@grandcanyon-d4d]

​@@Mr_Mistahnothing wrong with what?

[@riorobins1311]

My Grandthather taught in a school in Thailand with a former US Marine who had been in Vietnam. He told my Grandad that there were thousands of My Lai's, only they were never reported.

[@E-h6p]

Exactly

[@Timekeeper1200]

What person in their right mind would kill a child 😔. If there is such thing as afterlife, then I hope those innocent people get their justice

[@joymeetgupta6929]

"A country without a conscience is a country without a soul." by Winston Churchil. What an irony.

[@primalwolfe4711]

This isnt all soldiers and Marines. My grandpa went to Vietnam served as a Corpsman with the Marines 68-69 3/4 Darkside I Company. He's a freaking hero.

[@linhvu5898]

10 villagers escaped and survived

[@zobekguerrero1366]

I heard it was 20

[@Kriegter]

Joker: and women, and children? Gunner: sometimes

[@samallardyce2522]

thank for your service... yeah right

[@Chris14141]

The man who orchestrated this William Calley Jr. only served 3 years and a half years house arrest. They gang raped women and children, butchered them. The chopper (OH-23) pilot Maj. Hugh Thompson Jr. was ostracized by the army and condemned for his actions against Charlie company. He ordered his chopper gunners to shoot any GI who would try to stop them from rescuing the villagers. He was awarded the Soldier's medal, the US's highest non combat honor. He died in 2006 at age 62 from cancer. One of Louisiana's finest sons.

[@khoirulanam9141]

"This is so sad," said the Americans, and then they did it again, and again, and again, and again.

[@dustypluskrat7423]

Oh man, it’s almost like a country with a people’s that are from all walks of life could have different principles and characters? Who would of thought.

[@buzifalus]

@@dustypluskrat7423 also where satanism can bee normalized

[@robertnicholls9917]

@@dustypluskrat7423 No, the majority of people in the world are peaceful and want to live in peace. It's a small percentage of leaders who convince an even smaller percentage of soldiers to commit massacres.

[@mystery4561]

Don't act like we were the only ones.

[@theglobalwanderer6720]

Shame on the US Army 😡😡

[@Phantom15241]

Thanks for uploading this video, it shows a detailed picture of what happened.

[@KP-xi4bj]

What did you expect from the only country to have used not one but two atomic bombs on unarmed civilians?

[@SydneyChandler]

I read about this and what those soldiers did was barbaric and evil to the bone. And just imagine what kind of heinous atrocities that were committed that we didn't know anything about.

[@limelightraver5690]

How ironic and fitting that I'm watching this on Friday the 13th of October 2017. Legend has it that when the 13th day leading up to Halloween falls on a Friday it continues to emanate with reminders of the terrible misfortunes of the past and the unnerving premonitions of dark dread in the future all through the day. A day which some say is cursed, A day that according to dark legend quickly becomes the very incarnation of bad luck on all mankind.

[@therealayatollah2678]

Limelight Raver funny. Its my lucky number. 🐸

[@thedarknight5714]

Luck isn't real.

[@jlue7501]

Limelight Raver I

[@DX-pw2xl]

Look it’s the turdteenth

[@felixisfunny13]

Limelight Raver The French Monarchy(King Philip) and the Catholic Church under Pope Clements persecuted the Original Order of the Knights Templar on Friday the 13th, October 1307. They killed tortured the Crusaders of the holy wars, starting with Grand Master Jacques de Molay. This is the Origin surrounding Friday the 13th.

[@stevendgrissom1968]

Shame, shame, shame, on this part of existence.

[@truthspeaks1265]

I like how comments ingnore the message this video is trying to send, but goofy patriots focus on small mistakes "pRiVaTe FiRsT cOrPorAl???hyuck hyuck!!".... *Ridiculous*

[@thechillimangoarts]

The same thing is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq but it is swept under the rug.

[@Absolute_Joker]

Yeah, Because it’s not happening

[@lilzp9106]

One thing I learnt about his massacre, and the rage from the individual soldiers against those who scorned them for this is that the individual soldiers wanted this massacre to happen, they liked it.

[@salag13]

I once met Vietnam vets who had the nerve to justify this...

[@emjaiz]

Because they don't. The only people justifying it are the millennial retards in the comments that have no life experience.

[@Mr_Mistah]

I justify this

[@hello-yw8ej]

@@Mr_Mistahprobably because you are an undiagnosed sociopath

[@andreab.8203]

William Calley 504 people are waiting for you

[@vomitcomedy2030]

viet american here. this is so sad. im just. so sad that this could happen. that anyone allowed this to happen.

[@RubyCIoud]

The editing is amazing

[@rogerwilcoshirley2270]

One of the most incredibly brutal racist criminal atrocities in the history of the US Army. Not only should Lt Calley and Cpt Medina have received the death penalty for wonton mass murder of unarmed helpless civilians but senior unit commanders should have been similarly punished as they allowed a permissive command environment. This clearly framed the realm of the UNLAWFUL military order. Without question each and every soldier who participated in, condoned, or covered up this tragedy should have suffered severe consequences. They inflicted terrible fear and suffering and brought global infamy and shame upon the US as a nation that unfortunately still lives on. And if you visit VN today and see what beautiful wonderful people they are it makes the shame ever more poignant.

[@glendawesley4918]

OMG killing poor people again oh my God

[@nGANkIM-ys1xm]

Thats the typical american troops in the past

[@Mr_Mistah]

What's wrong with that?

[@BossySwan]

An act of pure evil

[@josevanreyes]

Land of the free. Home of the brave. Built with the blood of genocide and sweat of slaves. What wonderful country to be proud of.

[@mystery4561]

Every country has a dark past.

[@jliu98]

Every single country has a dark past

[@Absolute_Joker]

Oof, I think you need to stop getting your History from Twitter.

[@SterninSeth]

“We do not state at scars, which are places where the soul has struggled to leave and been forced back, closed up, sewn in”. -J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron, 1990

[@jsu9575m]

An unforgiveable attrocity

[@doodmonkey]

I wish every highschool kid hears of this story and learns from it.

[@geoffreyreeks2422]

The Mỹ Lai massacre AND how the USA dealt with the Mỹ Lai massacre bring great shame upon the USA. Regards, Geoff. Reeks

[@MrTee12]

I remember doing a report on this in my AP History high school class in the late 90s…horrific story

[@tray-oq1nj]

We had the toughest private first corporal in my unit in germany. We were all so glad when he was promoted to specialist major and sent to ft. Benning for training. By now he should have his expert generator/cav scout badge.

[@Dynamatrix2000]

How is that relevant to this video? Moron.

[@Mixer2904]

When someone tells you Americans are "good guys" show them this

[@gmccmemberk]

The graphics in this video are brilliant!

[@yevonsama]

They didn't just massacre them. They raped the women and girls before killing them. And after that, they report that they defeated and killed VC to get some medals.