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From: Nathan Randolph
T1: njrandolph@hotmail.com
Date: 12/7/99
Time: 11:34:49 AM
Remote Name: 130.68.95.59
Mr. Hazin has brought up an interesting point about the Vietnam War in relation to the role of Ben Chitty's ship. But, if I am not mistaken, I believe Ben Chitty's ship was not the ship that actually did the bombing, rather it was an escort for the Battleship New Jersey that was doing the bombing. (I stand corrected if I am wrong on this matter) At any rate, the bombing of Vietnam from the coast by the US is a horrible situation. As Ben Chitty pointed out, the ships bombing accuracy was terrible and it would often miss what it was trying to hit completely; even in cases when the bomb hit accurately, there were extremely high civilian fatalities since the Vietnamese did not have huge groups of soldiers and machinery moving together at the same time. There is really no excuse for this type of activity, and it is entirely unexceptable, especially for a country that presents itself as a country that values human life.
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