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I didn’t say everyone who told me that was telling the truth. I said that’s what I was told. And you’re one to talk about people “yapping”. That’s rich. Lots of rambling going on there!

Here’s a fact. You haven’t shown how you know anything about the subject. All you’ve stated is your oppinion. Those who told me were people who served in combat. I never considered that they were simply stating their oppinion. One of them survived the assault on Hamburger Hill. One was an Army Captain who still carries shrapnell under his skin. I’ll take their word for it.

Now leave me the hell alone.

I didn't say everyone who told me that was telling the truth. I said that's what I was told.

The way things were done in Viet Nam his orders were legit.

Maybe somebody told you something that THEY saw, or THEY heard about, or that they were a participant in. NO ONE has the right to extrapolate their experience to "The way things were done in Viet Nam." Furthermore, unless you or your friends has direct personal knowledge of the incident, you have NO right to claim that Calley SAID he had orders, OR that he HAD orders, or especially that they "were legit,"

“Illegal” kills happened all the time.

This MAY have been the experience of your "friends." To extrapolate from their experience to " all the time" is NOT RIGHT.

this type thing happend a lot.

"this type thing" may or may not have " happend a lot" to one or all of your friends. Nothing justifies the blanket statement that it " happend a lot."

By making these unwarranted claims, you blacken the name of anyone who served there, including your "friends." You impugn the reputation of the US Military, and by extension the entire US.

If you wish to report what your "friends" actually said, you have a right to do so. Neither you nor they have a right to claim that soldiers were committing atrocities "all the time." AND that they were ORDERED to do so.

I had imagined that this kind of propaganda would stop, now that "the troops" are all "heroes," "sacrificing for our freedom." But, I guess Vietnam Vets will continue to be looked on as something you would scrape off your shoe.

Here's a fact. You haven't shown how you know anything about the subject.

I don't need to. I didn't make any claim. Just logic.

Now leave me the hell alone.

If you posted this without any ill intent, and realize that you shouldn't have made those unwarranted claims, just say so, and there is an end to the matter.

If, on the other hand you choose to stand by your statements, You are the one who poked a stick in my cave...

p.s. Care to make a guess about where I got my screen name?