[conservativeteach]

Great post. No one here knows for sure what happened immediately prior to the Marine's actions. Life you said, if someone thinks they can do a better job and produce positive results, they should enlist pronto. I'll provide the gas money for you to drive them to the nearest recruiter.
Off topic, buy maybe you, as a Vietnam veteran, can help. The picture taken of the Viet cong being executed...the bullet to the side of the head..I think it was in Time magazine so many years ago...wasn't there something significant that happened before the street execution that failed to make it out to the general public. They just saw/read what the journalist wanted them to see. I faintly recall someone telling me that the prisoner had committed a horrible act, but it completely excapes me.

[TheCrusader]

"I faintly recall someone telling me that the prisoner had committed a horrible act, but it completely excapes me."

I know that the photographer who took the picture apologized to the public that it was used to make the S. Vietnamese general look bad. That general died a few years ago and I'm told the photog laid a wreath at his grave.

[kellynla]

Off topic, buy maybe you, as a Vietnam veteran, can help. The picture taken of the Viet cong being executed...the bullet to the side of the head..I think it was in Time magazine so many years ago...wasn't there something significant that happened before the street execution that failed to make it out to the general public. They just saw/read what the journalist wanted them to see. I faintly recall someone telling me that the prisoner had committed a horrible act, but it completely escapes me.
Sorry, I can't help you. After my tour in Nam, I spent nearly five years trying to put the whole experience behind me. And to this day, I don't watch movies or read books or articles about it...I don't need any refresher courses, thank you. If ya know what I mean.