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 …

…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.