@PhoenixSerenity__dup_24699@beige.party
2026-03-08 14:31 UTC
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@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party 2026-03-08 14:44
The massive tunnels system saved many Vietnamese lives. That's why I get upset at white people who called us tunnel rats & are calling #Palestinians tunnel rats too. More tunnels for another purpose were made in DMZ - site for most violent of exchanges between the north/south. #USTerrorists were releasing thousands of tons of bombs on Vinh Moc village which they believed was a supplier of arms/food to a resistance base on Con Co island . Villagers dug - with their hands - a 2 km long tunnel, 30 m underground, for safety/survival. Vinh Moc Tunnels included family rooms, community halls, kitchens, wells, health clinics & a kindergarten. 60 families called it home from 1967-1972; 17 children were born inside it. Not a single person from Vinh Moc village died in the war. Built 30 metres below ground-level, #VinhMocTunnels had 13 openings of which seven opened out into the East Sea. #AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #VietnamRevolutionaries #LongLiveVietnam #WarSurvivorsForPeace #VietnamHistory #ForeignInvaders #VietnamRevolution #geopolitics #WWII #GlobalSouth #SouthEastAsia #ASEAN #WorldHistory #LearnHistory #Courage #ResistanceFighters #USpol #USTerrorism
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@hasani@my-spaces.social 2026-03-08 14:42
@PhoenixSerenity The My Lai Massacre was something that was taught to us going through Army basic training back in the mid 90s. What was emphasized was something like that should *never* happen again. Between that and the Nuremberg trials, “just following orders” was not a defense nor an excuse. That as a “professional” soldier, hold yourself and your fellow soldiers to a higher standard. I have no idea what’s been taught these days, but I remember that like it was yesterday
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party 2026-03-08 15:59
@PhoenixSerenity My understanding is that this was a turning point in the attitude of the U.S. public toward the war. But, it still took *way* too long for the U.S. invaders to leave, in (typically) the most chaotic way ever. Too many people think only about the horrors of that war for soldiers and marines, and not the obvious horror for the people who were living there! I am ashamed of so much that my country has done. Such an overwhelming level of harm toward people abroad *and* at home. And I've heard people say "My country, right or wrong." That attitude is the one we need to break first and foremost.