Four Hours in MY LAI, anatomy of a massacre 

I'm a combat veteran of the Vietnam War. I served with the 60th infantry brigade in the Mekong Delta and with the 196 light infantry brigade near Chu Lai. Westmoreland initiated the use of search and destroy operations while I was in Vietnam. What did the U.S.. Army think was going to happen when they included villagers in these search and destroy operations? When I was in the Mekong Delta I personally went to JAG at MACV and formally complained about the killing of innocent unarmed villagers. No action was taken and I was transferred to the 196th. I became a team leader and we went on patrols in the jungle every other day and ambushes in the rice patties every other night. We took our assignments seriously but we treated the villagers with kindness and respect. From personal experience I can testify that the Mt Lai atrocity was not an isolated incident. Reuters has determined that over 4 million Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese were killed in this war. Two thirds of these victims were unarmed civilians. To be blunt, this was a genocidal war perpetrated by the greed of the military-iindustrial complex. From personal experience I can testify that the My Lai massacre was not an isolated incident. Like everyone else I discovered the facts involving this massacre in Time magazine eight months after it went down. That's how long the U.S. Army and the US government successfully covered it up. This incident occurred 50 years ago. I was in Vietnam 50 years ago and if I had been there on that date I would've simultaneously cut into the scumbags. We carried a lot of ammo and we had what we aimed at. The perpetrators of this atrocity all took the fifth. Callie served three years under house arrest and then was pardoned by tricky Dick. Killing innocent and unarmed civilians is illegal and the scumbags involved in this massacre have been summarily executed. This country is plagued by gun violence and routine mass shootings! Is anyone surprised?

They didn't just kill "civilians suspected of helping the enemy". They raped and mutilated, too. And the youngest of those kids would have grown up to be my age. They didn't have a chance.

The difference in how one soldier will bend over backwards to justify atrocity while another will refuse such orders proves that we all have a choice.

It's crazy that a large section of the American public held up a 5'5 crumb like kally and ignored Hugh Thompson who was a million times the man.

Harry Stanley was clearly a hero too, along with those who stood against their brothers for the sake of civility and standing for what is morally sound, at the risk of being killed themselves!! Mr. Stanley and those who shared his actions, are truly MEN OF HONOR! Kenneth Hodges, I am amazed that you can sit and say that killing babies is a moral act! But then again, you were brought up on charges for rape and murder, to which you kept claiming it was ordered! God help you! Calley....a 7 month old baby IS NOT THE ENEMY!!! It amazes me how some of them are trying to EXCUSE their behavior, their criminal acts by calling unarmed civilians the enemy! The enemy is that demon that you carry around excusing your immoral acts! RAPE is not a defense mechanism! So, what about that!!! NO EXCUSE! ONLY EVIL!

Thompson and his crew proved that day that angels walk among us. Such a sad day for humanity.

Ms Pham Thi Trinh recalling how her family of 11 members, including a 7-month old baby brother, was completely wiped out is just so heartbreaking. Does anyone know her whereabouts today? Hopefully she found peace in life.

Hearing Hugh Thompson speak about that child in the ditch brought tears to my eyes. So horrible what happened there.

It's been over 3 years since this was posted, and only 48,825 views. This should've had 20 million views by now, compared the garbage on RU-vid that's had 20 million views in only one year. The film was very very sad, but what makes it worse is that almost nobody cares to know the tragedy.

Hugh Thompson lived in my hometown. I just found out about the My Lai Massacre. If I would have known sooner I sure would have liked to meet him and talk to him.

Old men send young men to war. I was a young teenager when this happened. I could not believe what I was hearing. The stories from the men of Charlie Company pierced my heart. The tragedy of turning young innocent boys into professional killers is reprehensible and vile. Their lives are the casualties of war. The description of killing 500 villagers made me gasp for air and I found myself holding my breath in disbelief and horror. I am a Vietnam era Navy WAVE veteran. I served at Philadelphia Naval Hospital. I saw what the war brought home. The broken bodies and the broken minds of young boys who had no choice but to serve. We thought we are all grown up then but we were just kids. Only now am I coming to terms with what I saw, heard and experienced. It has been very difficult and very sad to remember the damaged lives of the men and women who served during Vietnam. When my time was up and I returned to the civilian world I never told anyone that I have been in the service until now.

I come from Serbia and same horrible things happend during the civil war back in the 90's when Yugoslavia fell apart. It makes me sad that hero Thompson died at 62 of cancer and that demon Calley is still alive. There is no justice in this world of ours. Sad but true.

There's no argument that prosecutions for My Lai should have gone higher. For one thing, Medina should have been sentenced harshly for the way he incited this rampage. But that does NOT nullify the fact that accountability extends to ALL levels. If you witness a fellow soldier raping and butchering a young girl or shooting unarmed civilians, infants amongst them, your duty - as an American, as a soldier, as a human - is to defend the innocent, not to turn away, and DEFINITELY not to participate. The only people who acted with honor on the US side that day were Andreotta, Colburn and Thompson - heroes to a man, make no mistake. Had they not intervened, many more may have died. It's just a shameful wonder that at least some of that murderous mob didn't follow their example, and do what they could to stop the slaughter. And in case you're silly enough to have swallowed all the bleating from Calley, Hodges, and others about 'following orders' as a justification for such actions, remember this: the Nazis were tried and executed at Nuremberg for such crimes, despite pleading the same spineless excuse.

My god! hearing Calley lie about being attacked first, and saying that he was "only protecting his troops" is one of the most infuriating things I've ever heard. The craziest thing is that just one year before all this, most of these soldiers were living as normal people in society, and in less than 12 months, such a large percentage of them become these mass murdering sadistic rapists!? That just seems way too easy.. So easy that its terrifying, and gives me even more of a reason to have literally no hope for the human species.

Today I was talking to my neighbor who is a vietnam vet. I do what I usually do and asked if he saw any action. He quietly said yes and mentioned he'd seen a lot of dead bodies. I asked if he'd heard about My Lai and he started to choke up and mentioned he was nearby. He said his group was responsible for at least 7 civilian kills. He said he knew it was wrong and that he complained to his superiors but was told to shut up. I got the impression that he hadn't personally killed anyone but had definitely witnessed the deaths. He told me he doesn't like talking about it because of the dreams that tend to come at night. I told him sorry. I told him the war was a raw deal for everyone involved. He said after the war he drank a lot. He knew of a lot other war vets who turned to drinking and drugs. I can't possible imagine the horrific scene that must of been to witness. And all those poor innocent souls who perished at the hand of our great government.

At first the Vietcong were blamed for this massacre and it was called "terrorism". When it turned out to be the US military, it was no longer "terrorism".

I’m an American born Vietnamese but most of my family are from Vietnam. Last summer I went on a vacation there for three weeks. My family told me they were going to take me to the beach, so I fell asleep in the van. I woke up at the stop and we ended up here at the My Lai museum where the massacre took place... I had no idea what was going on. It was definitely a rude awakening. The foot prints of American soldier’s boots are still there, forever engraved in the dirt roads. There is a monument of all the names of the villagers thatve lost their lives that day. Far too many were under the age of 15... The vibes there was eerie and the locals say that they see ghost and hear wailing at night.

I heard a Vietnam Veteran say "things like My Lai happened all the time." I guess President Johnson and President Nixon were legally war criminals. Even if one brings death and destruction with good intentions, it is still death and destruction. South Korean Army soldiers also served in served in Veitnam and were said to have been as bad as Nazis, yet, the United States had them in Vietnam. Lt. Colonel Anthony Herbert fought in Vietnam without being a butcher, and the Army forced him out when he tried to "rock the boat." This does not say much for the United States.

These guys should all been in jail.They were murders and cowards.

It's been 30 years since I watched this in high school, but I never forgot that black soldier sitting there constantly shaking and saying "This is my life." This definitely had an impact on me as a teenager. Watching this and World War 2 documentaries really highlights how nearly any of us "ordinary" folk could potentially take part in something like this. We all like to think we'd be heroes like Hugh Thompson, but the frightening reality is, more of us are likely to be lost in the moment like Varnado Simpson 😢

1945 - Nürnberg. War crimes tribunal for German war criminals. 1968 - My Lai and 2003 - Iraq. Where is the war crimes tribunal for American war criminals? _Where?_

That war should never have happened in the first place. So many lives needlessly lost or destroyed, and for what?

This Kenneth Hodge would have made an excellent Nazi. No remorse, at one point he says the order was to kill everybody, because they were all enemies, even the babies. Unreal, disgusting is an understatement for such monsters. And the they are hiding behind orders. And then all the people who were demanding "free Calley" absolutely unbelievable. Sickening. In WW 2 such soldiers were court martialed and executed. Can't believe nobody none of these monsters were held responsible for their war crimes. Shocking how "normal people" can demand "Free Calley". Thompson is the hero, he behaved like a human being. 120 monsters who were following orders. Just wondering how many other war crimes the military was able to keep secret?

A former colleague of mine in the newspaper business told the story, before he came to work at our paper, when, as a reporter up in Wisconsin, he was covering some routine Junior Chamber of Commerce event, and the people he knew there wanted to introduce him to a new member, a great guy, in real estate. Ernie Medina. As they shook hands, my friend said, "Captain Medina?" My friend said Medina's hand slid out of his as though it were a fish, and Medina turned on his heel without a word and walked rapidly out of the venue, leaving his companions stunned and mystified. They did not know who he had been. I don't remember whether my friend told them.

The most disgusting thing to me is the way the public perception swung in the favor of the murderers. What was once a perfectly persecutable offense ("just following orders") became a fucking battle-cry for an ignorant public who knew little of the actual day-to-day of the war, who considered all Vietnamese enemies and condones slaughters. The killers themselves have concrete, if inexcusable, reasons for why they did what they did. Conditioning, fatigue, anxiety, grief, malice, what reasons did the public have for supporting them? Beyond the massacre itself, THAT is the biggest blemish it's left on our society. On the way our country is perceived on a whole. The facade of "humanitarians" which we had cultivated since 1776 came crashing down, finally. We were no better than the other murderous nations, in fact, in many ways we were and are still worse.

Captain Medina was also responsible for giving the order to shoot. Everyone focusses on Valley,but Medina should be mentioned too.

Shame on America.

American involvement in the Vietnam and Korean Wars were some of the most stupid things that ever happened, it had nothing to do with them and the fact that they used mandatory service to force US civilians to fight a war across the world that had nothing to do with them is sick. What do you even tell them? You're protecting your country?? How? The pure fear they had for communism to the extent that they would draft US civilians as if the war was on their doorstep or actually involved them. Led to so many Vietnemese civilian deaths, to the point even South Vietnamese civilians were seen celebrating the end so US soldiers could leave their soil. Proud US veterans of Vietnam always make me feel sick. The West needs to learn to stay out of issues that don't involve them/isn't caused by them.

If Harry Stanley and the other soldier refused to kill innocent people and they weren't shot on sight then that tells you the rest could have done the same. Also tells you the ones that did the shooting wanted to do it because again, they could have refused like the other 2 soldiers and they could have stopped it. Remember, terrorists are not always foreign.

Here's what was cut off from the translation of what the lady said at 21:24 "I FEEL DEEP HATRED FOR AMERICAN INVADERS"

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." - (Two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient) ~ Smedley D. Butler

one of the darkest video on youtube

Thompson should have been given the medal of honor. he recognized Charlie co. had turned into a bunch of Nazi's. many US war criminals went unpunished. A very dark episode and just one of many. we lost our soul as a nation in Vietnam. I met the woman taking water out of the well when I went to pay my respects at My Lai in 2003. R.I.P. McNamara & Gen. Westmoreland were Nazi like in their concept of the war.

After watching this, it brought me back to the raw brutality of the My Lai Massacre. The film doesn't pull any punches, showing the harsh realities of war that I experienced firsthand. It's a gritty reminder of the darkness and tough decisions we faced in combat. As a veteran, it hits hard, but it's essential for everyone to see. This film is a no-holds-barred portrayal of the true cost of war.

"I was just following orders". Ugh. Thompson is a hero, as are those who refused. Listening to the others try to justify it is sickening.

@21:15 seeing that woman cry is gut wrenching...she loss her kids and her mother

"As a professional soldier I was taught to carry out orders without question" There's nothing professional about you, bum.

w/o thompson was a hero that day

The black guy in his living room with the picture book had a sense of accountability that shows me his remorse is truly genuine

Thompson is a good person with heart, the world needs more people like him! This was extremely brutal and disgusting. The pictures of the victims made me cry.

the nazis also did what they told. how is this different?

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

This killer blew his head off in the end .. couldn't live with the guilt ! Others didn't have the same decency and were never punished by US !

As I watch this, my heart breaks terribly! All those babies, women, elderly, people!!!! Its really the Killing Fields!!

Kenneth Hodges. The guy in the white shirt was responsible for the murder of dozens of civilians on that day. When one of his men refused to open fire on unarmed civilians right at the start of the massacre, Hodges banished the soldier to the edge of the skirmish line.

The guilt hung so heavily over Varnado Simpson (the black fellow) that he suffered severe PTSD after the massacre. years later and 3 unsuccessful attempted suicides he finally succeeded by shooting himself in the head. That was on May 4th, 1997. He was 48 years old. Such a tragic story.

This is beyond horrific! My heart absolutely breaks for all of the victims and their loved ones who are generationally traumatized by this. I can’t imagine that level of suffering and pain. Every soldier involved should have went to prison! My prayers are with the families of all victims. I need to say though , that not all veterans are capable of such atrocities. I worked in a group home for Vietnam era veterans. They were almost entirely draftees, not cut out for the military, let alone hurting others, war or not. They mentally broke from the things that happened on both sides, including a 3 year POW. He was so traumatized that he wouldn’t look people in the eyes and almost entirely mute except for short whispering answers. He was over 6’5” and had a very large build, but he made himself as small as possible and stayed in his room and kept to himself except for meals, meds, hygiene, and medical appointments. It broke my heart. After I worked with him for a year, he looked me in the eye. All I could see was the 18 year old draftee, who was thrown into a jungle, captured, thrown in a hole, and you can guess the rest. I can’t imagine what that would be like. Another vet would come to me periodically and ask if he would be sent back to Vietnam and he would try to trust my reassurance that he’ll never have to go back. I could go on, but you get the idea. How any of humanity can think that war is a solution when it only equals trauma and harm to all involved is beyond me. There are the victims, the ones who break, the evil, and also the heros. I’ve seen other interviews with Ty Mai soldiers, and some laugh and state that they have no remorse. It’s sickening! Some seemed still programmed and robotic. That was from videos long before this film. The soldier who had the “book of his life” in this film , seemed like he was broken but still a bit robotic in his first interview. In this interview, he is completely consumed by what he’s done and just wants to end it (and did just a few years after this interview). Losing both of his own children must have made him feel cursed for what he’d done. He obviously lived with the ghosts of his victims for the rest of his life. He also lived in fear that he would hurt someone and became a shut-in. According to what I’ve read, he had no criminal record and never hurt anyone again. Nothing excuses what he did, but I actually believe him that he snapped after the woman and baby and that he didn’t know that was inside of him until he did it. I can’t help but wonder, would he have ever harmed anyone if he’d never joined the military? Above all, I pray for the victims and their families, and for peace 🙏

Thank Thompson for his Bravery in responding to the plight of 12 human beings under fire! Thank Universe for the few men who refused to murder!

The victims in my lai don't deserved this...

I can't say how things are now, but when I was in (much later) we were taught what a lawful order was, and what an unlawful order was. We were taught NOT to follow an unlawful order, and it was your duty to report, and stop an unlawful order from being carried out with what ever force was necessary. We were taught military laws/rules, U.S. laws, and Geneva convention rules of war. My understanding was that this was always the case, even back in WWII. I would doubt this if I didn't hear it from the horses mouth. 1 person, a fire team sure, but a company!

I remember almost 30 years ago seeing this in a psychology class in college. I never forgot about that black soldier who was wracked with guilt because of the atrocities he and others were made to commit. He said it was the programming that kicked in that made them act the way they did. I lived in Japan and met a Vietnam vet who spent all night telling me of the horrors of what he'd done during the war. He said the government fucked him and others over when they came back and weren't interested in helping them. He was trained to be a killing machine, now that the war was over, he can only survive with alcohol. Interestingly enough, my big brother fought in the British army and saw fucked up shit and killed people in Iraq supporting the US. The only way he copes nowadays is with alcohol. It shows how crazy war is and that it has no winners. My heart goes out to all those young men who're are programmed to kill which irrevocably changes a person's life. That's why we need to love each other. With love from England. 😍🙏

In 1985 Richard Nixon recalled discussing the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with MacArthur: "MacArthur once spoke to me very eloquently about it, pacing the floor of his apartment in the Waldorf. He thought it a tragedy the bomb was ever exploded. MacArthur believed that the same restrictions ought to apply to atomic weapons as to conventional weapons, that the military objective should always be limited damage to noncombatants... MacArthur, you see, was a soldier. He believed in using force only against military targets, and that is why the nuclear thing turned him off, which I think speaks well of him."

I am starting to believe that we are the baddies

Hugh Thompson Jr. RESPECT!

Vanardo Simpson did, in fact, succeed in killing himself, in 1997. He shot himself to put an end to his misery in this horrific, tragic story. He was 48.

This doc has stayed with me since I first saw it 35yrs ago. Simpson's shaking hand was something I never forgot, but it wasn't until recently I found out he shot himself in 1997.

People might be interested in researching Gen. Colin Powell's involvement in this incident. I believe he was a Major, working as a staff officer in the Americal(23rd) Div. at this time.

Absolutely excellent Documentary. We must Never Forget!

We as a country never learned any lessons from this war crime. Right now, today on the 50th anniversary of My-li, we are involved in 7 wars. And I can say with full confidence that "good red-blooded American boys" are murdering civilians. I can only say to the world, stay away from us. When an empire starts to totter and fall it flails away at any hint of loss of respect. The last war where we did anything good was WW2, everything since has been war for profit. The American empire has decided that if the world won't respect us they will surely fear us. An empire found on nothing but genocide and slavery is lucky to have lasted as long as it has, our values are now a blood drenched joke. And we are not going to stop our wars anytime soon. The military is our jobs program. Other countries are pursuing new, green, technologies. We promise our working class that the old jobs are coming back and out of desperation they choose to believe and elect liars that keep sending their children to war.

Mr. Harry Stanley and Michael Bernhardt... Much Respect! And I'm sorry that I'm ignorant of and couldn't find his name but the black man w/the book who has clearly been what appears to be Nothing but Honest, both with us as well as himself, I must say that I appreciate your accountability and your honesty about the whole thing, I can Respect that! But I couldn't understand that he was still a believer after such Immoral acts, and if one is a believer in "Heaven" then they must believe in "Hell" and I gotta believe he then must know what side of that coin he'd fall upon...

Varnado Simpson passed away in 1997 ,I think he shot himself ,he did show true remorse unlike some who believed babies were a legit target and old men and young mothers. I wonder how many My Lai's have happened in Iraq and Afghanistan??

I hope all those involved in the killings that day, have suffered everyday since.

Why aren’t all of these Charlie Company troops now not locked up? There should be retrial.

'...we did not violate any moral standards'. Is this guy for real? I've just watched a doc about the recent Marine A case in the UK army. This is like a whole different galaxy of wrong.

You can't think that the journalists interviewing the unit members asked themselves later..."Am I capable of this?"

So many RU-vid armchair heroes. Truth is no one knows how they would react given the exact same circumstances. I like to think there is no way I could have contributes to this atrocity but thank God I wasn't put in this situation. Especially at 18 years old.

Not enough discussion of the rapes.

So dam heart breaking.

Varnado Simpson, although a perpetrator, was also a victim. Easy to say you would have refused orders. Much harder in real life. How many of us at the age of 18 or 19 would have had that sort of courage and conviction to refuse a direct order? These young men were put in a virtually impossible situation: "After three unsuccessful attempts, Simpson took his own life in his home on Sunday, May 4, 1997, at the age of 48, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head."

War is death and carnage. War gives permission to take a life, what is considered a crime under any other circumstance, what is considered a sin by most faiths. War is determined by men sitting safely in an office ( whomever declares war should have to walk point. ) What meets the criteria to consider lives expendable? I have always felt that our duty is to protect our country, our shores and yet we have been involved in wars for other, at times, not so noble reasons. I understand helping the persecuted, but at what cost? And our men, not only risk their lives, but often are treated with scorn and distaine at home, especially with Vietnam . I will never condone their actions, but understand many of the extensive circumstances. I can never forgive the actions, but I can forgive the man. My brother served in Nam, but because of his post never saw combat. But he still felt the effects of war when his barracks were bombed taking the lives of friends and his health. My tears are for the victims, the innocents of My Lai, and for the men who must live with choices made. The only way for man to survive is with peace, yet here we are, in a world of conflict and war...

42:00 Absolutely chilling exchange. Just following orders.

Hugh Thompson = Oskar Schindler

Former soldier's statement in the film was that he killed about 25 and he scalped them, cut their hands off, cut their tongues out, etc. He said his "programming" kicked in. Is he talking about his training? I trained in the Army for 14 yrs. Served time overseas in war. I seemed to have missed those training sessions. What the hell is he talking about?!

I feel sympathy for Varnado. Yes he killed so many, but he apparently endured a living hell of guilt after. Shows that he had a conscience. I can't bring myself to condemn him as much as I'd like to. He comes off as a good man put into the worst of circumstances.

Hugh Thompson Junior was a real hero!

Such a powerful documentary.

I watched this in history class 10 years ago I still think about it

In the UK they are called "Leftenant," but in the USA they are called Lieutenant.

It’s probably safe to assume that before this day these “men” (in life experience were essentially kids) weren’t all murderous monsters. They were all put into a position that helped facilitate these barbarous actions. They were led to believe that anyone who wasn’t one of them was the enemy, that these were the people responsible for their brothers’ deaths. I’m by no means excusing their actions, every single one of them deserves prison at a minimum-I just would never presume to understand all of the factors that led to these young men to behave like such savages. A horrible tragedy for everyone involved.

43:44 now that's a stunning example of cognitive dissonance, fucking textbook example..

"After three unsuccessful attempts, Varnado Simpson took his own life in his home on Sunday, May 4, 1997, at the age of 48, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head" (from his wiki page).

Varnado Simpson committed suicide in 1997. Rip

Where is nunerberg trial

I've seen older Documentary about My Lai and there was also Mr Simpson (May God forgives his lost Soul) in an interview. He was in his early twentys then but I didnt seen him in that bad nervous condition like in this video. He was rather calm when talking about the killings in the first years after his homecoming. Seems his PTSD became stronger over the years. After I read about his suicide i felt really sorry for him. Almost same feeling i feel about his victims in the vietnamese village. If someone is looking for the real guilty and responsible ones, he should be searching for those who pushed and started that war. And not for the small draftees, who gone threw Hell like their victims.

This can almost leave someone speechless very sad I wish sometimes that older men were in charge closely with the soldiers who are in the thick of war youth can sometimes cause poor choices when you of 2nd LT's being 19 years old!? Come on.

Jimmy Carter wanted Calley freed and now Trump is considering pardoning him. What is wrong with our leaders in this country?!

I am very proud of Mr Stanley, he was one of the intelligent people there to refuse this insane order to kill babies.

I've seen some bad stuff here in Ireland. But seeing the picture of the women and children that were later shot broke my heart

This is how war makes people,whenever you hear your country waging a war,u should cringe, remember what happened in Iraq ,haditha massacre....war makes even this young soldiers do something they will not wish to do, they suffer after the war alone,war dehumanizes this young souls

37.00 just breaks your heart. awful

THAT ONE SON OF A BITCH WITH THE WHITE POLO SHIRT ON IS A REAL PIECE OF WORK

I was there fighting in Vietnam at this time,i was fighting at a different place on the DMV

Who is the man talking at around 52mins ?

Now Im coming to understand that the soldiers were suffering too. We’re learning about this in High School US history and even though I felt great anger towards the Americans, I now understand that they were following orders. They were _drafted_, told to do it because it was for the pride of the USA, to combat the evil communists. When the vets came back American citizens spat at their feet. It’s a shame. And it’s alright to feel anger at America, too, because we were the ones who got involved anyway.

One of the best US documentaries ever - besides "The Civil War" by Ken Burns (both broadcasted in Germany). I think Jay Ungar's "Ashokan Farewell" reflects / sets to music both catastrophies of US history. They were all loosers (civilians and "simple soldiers") ...

I do feel sympathy for Varnado Simpson. He clearly is exhibiting PTSD symptoms in this interview. I genuinely believe he was sorry for what he did. In case anyone was wondering, he ended his life eight years after this interview. He had been in and out of psychiatric hospitals during that time.

There's a documentary in 1970 with some of these guys in your movie..This is not the first

Why?

Gezz Just like those Nazi pogroms in WW2

The Lesson left hear is never go to war for no reason at all. Stay home on the farm with you loved ones. ( ;