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"On another note, openly calling it the "Midtown Massacre" wasn't the brightest move, either."

I agree. My deepest sympathies are for the young men that have to live with their doubts that lead to suicide, or to some reduction in their "morals" that lead to murder. I am always so impressed by those soldiers who can someone distance themselves from the horror of battle, and say "its just my job".

And the term "massacre" could have been used by the soldiers as a positive term as well - as in "man - we really massacred those guys". However, either positive or negative, it doesn't seem to be a term to use for "someone just doing their job".

All of that said - thanks to the soldiers that so bravely fought in a street battle that left hundreds of enemy dead and no American deaths. (Weren't we supposed to be in a quagmire if it turned to urban street fighting?)

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How do we know that the troops actually invented the phrase 'Midtown Massacre'?

Could be from the fertile mind of some writer wanting to give the troops a black eye.