Posted on 12/16/2016 12:41:58 PM PST by Borges
Lawrence Manley Colburn, a helicopter gunner in the Vietnam War who helped end the slaughter of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops at My Lai, has died. He was 67.
Lisa Colburn, speaking with The Associated Press on Thursday evening, said her husband of 31 years was diagnosed with cancer in late September and died Tuesday.
"It was very quick," she said by phone from her Canton, Georgia, home near Atlanta. "He was a very peaceful man who had a great desire for there to be a peaceful world."
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You are right but the US was heartily sick of the war and tired of seeing their sons besmirched by KGB sympathizers like Cronkite and Jane Fonda. They just didn’t want to believe it. And frankly the Army holds a lion’s share of responsibility due to its policies that allowed incompetent jackasses like Calley be officers. Look up ticket punching on the net for a primer.
Do Stuff?
Where does this “smartest man in the room” get the vocabulary?
No wonder Michelle is feeling hopeless.
I feel the pain, MOTUS.
Apologies, fat fingers posted above in the wrong thread. Dangit, I hate that it got into this sensitive thread.
I knew Hugh “Buck” Thompson, who was involved in this. We were in the Army together.
Once again, I apologize.
Geez. Wow.
I wasn’t there and have never been in battle or seen friends die so I have no comment.
Sounds like anger and desire for vengeance boiling over.
War is a horrible, horrible thing. Wow.
Damn Agent Orange.
RIP.
+1
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