“We
fired some barrages into this village, and the guy told me, ‘good
shot, you got the chicken coop, the clothes line, and you should see granny
and the kids run.’ And I still dream about that because that was
the first time I realized that we weren't just shooting soldiers, we weren't
bombarding military targets, we were actually bombing villages where ordinary
people lived and worked.”
George
Johnson
Vietnam War Veteran, U.S. Navy, 1965
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estimates place the Vietnamese death toll at about one million. Other
estimates range up to three million. 57,000 American soldiers died
and thousands of others suffer from long-term physical and mental
disabilities.
What were the United States motives in Southeast Asia?
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