[TĐH; Very funny. All those simple hand-made booby traps and tunnels and even killing village leaders who cooperated with the South VN government or the US (which I don’t approve at all, and I call that Terrorism, to terrorize the Southern population) is no where near the US’ and South Vietnam government’s bombings, including B-52 “carpet bombing” to clean any path they flied by (if you heard the sound of B52, your were going to die; no way to run); Napalm bombings – burning you and everyone and the forests and everything ínsight; Agent Orange killing all the trees and left hundreds of thousands of people sick until today – third and fourth generations after the war. Saying the Vietnamese were brutal is like telling a six-year-old kid who punches the belly of a thirty-year-old man that the kid is brutal. Come on, you guys and gals, have some common sense. For God’s sake.]
Phan Thị Kin Phúc burned from Napalm
US Army RetiredApr 20
Why do Vietnam veterans lie about how the Viet Cong were so brutal? They were not.
The VC butchered their own people, making examples of village leaders who cooperated with the South Vietnamese government or the United States. Those are facts.
The VC constructed illegal booby traps, such as punji stick pits, bouncing bettys, cartridge tripwire traps, grenade tripwire traps, snake pits, the mace (photo), tiger traps, bamboo whips, and pressure release traps.
These traps were just as likely to kill or maim civilians as they were members of the ARVN or US military, as they were normally put on trails and near riverbanks.
Helmet (2nd photo).
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