Favorite Hobby of American G.I. In Nam

When I was in my late teens, I was volunteering at a radio station during a charity marathon, answering phones etc. With me, were about a half dozen young ladies doing the same, also in their late teens. Visiting the DJ who was on the air that day, was his good buddy, who happened to be a U.S. Army soldier who just got back from a tour in Vietnam. I was amazed at his stories of the actual, HIDEOUS goings on in Vietnam. These stories, believe it or not, were designed to impress the young ladies there at the radio studio, as the phones rang with calls coming in with donations. This soldier couldn't understand why the young ladies were not only not impressed with his favorite hobby there in Nam, but instead, were repulsed by it. The soldier began to recount, how for pure sport, as a passtime, as he and his fellow soldiers would be on the back of a truck, driving down the streets of Vietnam, it was not unusual for one of the "men" to jump off the back of the truck to take a turn at beating a Vietnamise child to death, and to happily return to the waiting truck. The soldier recounted this regular activity with a proud smile, even bragging, and was completely confused at the teenage girls negative reaction to this favorite passtime. No, the soldier wasn't telling a tall tale. I saw the look in his eye and the pride with which he told these stories, as well as the genuine confusion that overcame him when the girls he was relating this to told him these goings on were "sick" & "cruel" and nothing to brag about. Was this an isolated case of war crimes in this soldeir's one outfit? Who can say? But I can say this. I was left with a sour taste in my mouth toward the U.S. soldiers fighting in Vietnam, to say the least. To those men who did an honorable job there in Nam, or gave their lives, they have my respect. To those soldiers who were in Vietnam, and dared to shed the blood of even one innocent child for sport, I wouldn't watse my urine to piss on their graves! LOOK at ANY one of the pictures on this website, of the children of Vietnam, and imagine the kind of COWARD who would take such a life FOR SPORT, and then return to the states EXPECTING PRAISE! I met such a "man".