My Lai Massacre

"The Vietnam War". Planet Papers. Jul. 2001. <http://www .planetpapers.com/Assets/322.html>. The Vietnam War The Vietnam War is truly one of the most unique wars ever fought by the Unites States of by any country. It was never officially declared a war (Knowll, 3). It had no official beginning nor an official end. It was fought over 10,000 miles away in a virtually unknown country. The enemy and the allies looked exactly the alike, and may …showed first 75 words of 2715 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2715 total…Nobody ever returns the same" (Knowll, 127) (Mahan Interview). With the certainty of scarring evident, one must begin to question why this scarring happens and why people have a threshold for violence. The most obvious and most correct response is that war wasn't meant to be. If people were designed with a threshold, it wasn't meant to be exceeded. This leads one to deduce that although sometimes seemingly necessary, war is hell and it is wrong.