Status Updates From NAM: The Vietnam War in the...

F*cking hell, pages 49-51 were tough to read. First hand commentary from an American soldier about the awful things they did to the Vietnamese, hard to stomach already

Can only read before 6pm…. but seriously stirring

“I had no expectations of being a hero when I came back. I did expect to get a job. I thought the government would take care of us. But we were Kennedy’s children and when we got back, Kennedy wasn’t around, so we got fucked.”

“Containing communism was only worth 5 percent of the war. Generator capital for corporations was 41 percent. I was pledging allegiance to Dow and Monsanto and all the large corporations. That shattered my whole image of the US, of freedom and democracy, of the world we live in, all the ideals I had gone to Vietnam with. The sacrifice was a lie. The war was a fraud.”