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Telling True War Stories
Dear friend,
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Episode 13: “War is Hell: In-Country Resistance Part 2 explores the moral disintegration and shocking atrocities that turned American soldiers against the war in Vietnam. We hear harrowing accounts from veterans, who recount their transformation from young, often patriotic soldiers into disillusioned witnesses and resisters.
From infantry soldiers surviving ambushes, to a military intelligence officer who risked his life to stop the torture of prisoners, to a whistleblower threatened into silence for trying to attempting to report war crimes. These young soldiers, barely out of their teens, confront the darkest extremes of warfare.
We’ll also hear from two Vietnamese women, survivors of the infamous My Lai massacre, whose devastating testimonies put a human face on a U.S. military atrocity that shook the world. This is not a comfortable listen, but it is a necessary one to understand why many U.S. soldiers came to oppose the war they were fighting.
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In gratitude,
The team at A Matter of Conscience
(Bill, Willa, Polina, and Dylan)
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