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The Secret History of the Vietnam War
If you thought you knew all there was to know about the Vietnam War, you were wrong. For example: ever heard of the "Mere Gook Rule," a code of conduct the US military came up with in order to make it easier for soldiers to murder Vietnamese civilians without feeling too bad about it? ("It's only a mere gook you're killing!")
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Reading this made me sick to my stomach, more people should know about this as there is a lesson to be learned here. What happened in Vietnam was sick, and should never happen. These men were turned into monsters for the sake of winning a war, PTSD makes more sense now, most of these soldiers just couldnt stomach what they did after the war ended. Fucked up...