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From: Shiva Shankar <sshankar@cmi.ac.in>
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Subject: Kill Anything That Moves:Nick Turse Describes the Real Vietnam War
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14544-nick-turse-describes-the-real-vietnam-war?fb_action_ids=294646623994344&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={"294646623994344":437086613027590}&action_type_map={"294646623994344":"og.likes"}&action_ref_map=[]
"... what it was like to live for 10 years under bombs and shells and helicopter gunships and how they had to negotiate their live around the American war, what it was like to have your home burned down five, six, seven times, and to finally give up rebuilding it and start to live a subterranean or semi-subterranean existence in a bomb shelter and have to - you know, to make all these calculations about how to survive, when to leave the bomb shelter to forage for food or to find water or to relieve yourself, when to farm.
And all these decisions could have a profound affect that your life depended on it and the life of your family. You had to know - to get into the bomb shelter in time, when artillery started raining down. But you had to get out of there before the American troops came through and started grenading the bunkers because Americans didn't see these as bomb shelters, they saw them as enemy bunkers that could be hiding guerillas. And the Vietnamese lived with this war for 10 years straight. And as they told me these stories again and again, I realized that this was really the story that I needed to tell, the one of Vietnamese civilian suffering ..."
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Turse
From: Shiva Shankar <sshankar@cmi.ac.in>
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Subject: Kill Anything That Moves:Nick Turse Describes the Real Vietnam War
To:
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14544-nick-turse-describes-the-real-vietnam-war?fb_action_ids=294646623994344&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={"294646623994344":437086613027590}&action_type_map={"294646623994344":"og.likes"}&action_ref_map=[]
"... what it was like to live for 10 years under bombs and shells and helicopter gunships and how they had to negotiate their live around the American war, what it was like to have your home burned down five, six, seven times, and to finally give up rebuilding it and start to live a subterranean or semi-subterranean existence in a bomb shelter and have to - you know, to make all these calculations about how to survive, when to leave the bomb shelter to forage for food or to find water or to relieve yourself, when to farm.
And all these decisions could have a profound affect that your life depended on it and the life of your family. You had to know - to get into the bomb shelter in time, when artillery started raining down. But you had to get out of there before the American troops came through and started grenading the bunkers because Americans didn't see these as bomb shelters, they saw them as enemy bunkers that could be hiding guerillas. And the Vietnamese lived with this war for 10 years straight. And as they told me these stories again and again, I realized that this was really the story that I needed to tell, the one of Vietnamese civilian suffering ..."
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Turse
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