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"I strolled up and found this business doing peculiar things.... Setting flames to the hootches and huts and waiting for people to turn out and then taking pictures them.... Going into the hootches and taking pictures them up.... Gathering people in teams and taking pictures them.... WHEN I walked in you might see piles of individuals through the village...around. They were collected up into large teams. I found them take an M79 [grenade launcher] into an organization of people who were still alive. But it was mostly done with a machine gun. They were taking pictures women and children exactly like anybody else. We fulfilled no resistance and I only found three captured weaponry. We had no casualties. It had been just like any Vietnamese village - old papa-sans, women, and kids. As a matter of fact, I don't remember experiencing one military-age guy in the entire place, useless or alive." (PFC Michael Bernhardt) The Vietnam War might have been called a humor of problems if the results weren't so lethal and tragic. In 1951, while conflict was raging in Korea, the United States began signing security pacts with countries in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the pass on of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America became a member of the Southeast Asia Treaty Firm, pledging to guard several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those countries was South Vietnam. Prior to the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been challenged to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese Chief executive Diem's program was extremely unpopular, and conflict broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the finish of the 1950s. Kennedy's administration attempted to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military services was feeble.
