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From: Samantha Sabia
T1: sabia@alpha.montclair.edu
Date: 10/28/97
Time: 4:44:08 PM
Remote Name: 130.68.21.183
People who did not serve in Vietnam, can never know exactly what fighting there was like. It is easy for us, who were not there, to say that the killings were wrong. But these soldiers were doing what they were trained to do. Like Powell said, "The kill-or-be-killed nature of combat tends to dull fine perceptions of right and wrong." United States soldiers, mostly boys of 18, were thrown into a situation they knew virtually nothing about. All they knew was to kill the enemy and not be killed in the process.We can not consider them monsters because they killed Vietnamese people. They were put in Vietnam specifically for that reason.