Reese Betts’s Reviews > Vietnam Diary > Status Update

First instance of an American talking about the immorality of war almost 10% in.

CWO W. Larry Adamson: “I know it’s wrong to take a human life, whether you do it in war or go out and blow off the top of a man’s head. But there are mitigating circumstances — and Christ has promised forgiveness,” before commenting on an incident when a Vietnamese mother and her 3 children were shot at by the Army of Vietnam