and actually stopped about seventy five meters in front of my vehicle that tells you how far the vehicle came into our perimeter and. which is we lit it up. we had three of the. victims in the wreck kiya that there were expiring rapidly we pulled them out of the car and we started doing it for a state i called a corpsman the corpsman came and got the three bodies and took them back to the patel i and surgeon. corpsman came back dump the bodies on the side of the road and went over to the corpsman. what do you do and how can you bring him back you need to get him out of your you need to get him back to an area where they can see a surgeon and corpsman there's nothing we can do for him

so we're going to leave you know you can leave the bodies on the side of the road and i said yeah we want to do staff. so i want to have a compatible up so they dumped him on the side of the road and. move the guys brother you come running over to him and he just said they're holding them while they roll around on the on the asphalt on a highway. they're rolling around in pain they didn't even give many morphine. the guy's brother. he kept running around and he had his hands in his in this

and his face. he was crying and sobbing and he's saying why did you kill my brother . we didn't do anything to you we're not terrorists. now remember i remember i just want to i wanted to close my years i didn't want to hear just sat there and he's time that he said it. it was like it was permanently being. burned into my brain. and. i lost that's the last night or gotten a good night's sleep the night before that.

i think you know i'm with. you next morning lieutenant you walked up to me and he said sas are. you are you all right you seem a little distressed a little agitated. no sir no sir not all right. and. so i'm pretty pissed off what we're what we're doing over here. he said it will give me your interpretation of what we're doing over here. and. for what we're trying to accomplish over here. i just looked at him and i said it well said honestly feel that we're committing genocide and. he didn't like my answer and he stormed off towards the. ceo's vehicle.

and i knew at that point the my career was done. across the line i knew i had to watch my back and grow eyes. so after that night i pretty much slept with my no i millimeter underneath my poncho liner within easy reach. me in the dark the dark days. when i first came back from vietnam in one thousand six to six i saw protesters out speak in. i don't want to hear it i did believe it to get away from it i put in a ten forty nine to go back to vietnam because i was what

a tar and we'll wired up and i don't think it would have taken a much for me to take one of the protesters out failed had asked stayed here i would have ended up killing some people and i could do it legally in vietnam so i put in a ten forty nine to go back i think i was looking at just the full cation of doing what i'll be doing of killing. it was all a do on my second tour when i began to realize that something was wrong when i came back to the states i want to washington d.c. to the white house or i talk to someone a the next and just say that i would not go back if we had. when i arrived back stateside i was ordered to report into the middle health clinic

in twenty nine palms. the. psychologist looked at me and she said. why don't deal with conscientious objectors. and. just about lost it for them to label me as a conscientious objector that's the ultimate slap in the face you're called be a conscience objector i just killed thirty plus individuals for you and you calling me a conscience objector no. i stood up and i was a ma'am if you want to label me as a conscientious objector for not wanting to kill innocent civilians then i'll see you court. i went down and hired an attorney. a man by the name of mr gary myers. and. mr mars was represented during the may lie trials. and.

mr myers in the marine corps came to a. very discreet mutual understanding i was on or billy discharged december thirty first of two thousand and three and here i am. when i came back i think that that sense of a long term planning was gone. i went through a divorce some things i did reckless way probably in the back online i would not have minded dying homo. but my. i went through a period when. t.c.t. cocaine are on. and about it and threatening so.

long period of severe drug abuse. i finally got to the point of raw i had no more money. i had no more car i had long since moved out of my house and could not go back home exactly where do you go from here. and it was when the national guard needed someone in my and i my experience in teaching people how to fly the armed helicopters the cobras and i was asked to come in and help train some of those folks and the money was. you know fifteen twenty thousand dollars a year for part time work and it carried a retirement with even though i had and a change of heart about wars i needed the money

you first come home and you immediately forget about everything. and you go to mcdonald's you go to all your favorite restaurants and you do all your favorite things and you're having a great time and you know and then all of a sudden you wake up one day and you're like wait a minute i'm not having a good time anymore. starting with think about this i'm starting to think about that because all the newness has worn off your home alive i got my arm i got my legs i'm alive. but then the mind and the mind starts catching up. with everything else. i find myself going through my gear prepping like i'm getting ready to go to combat. i mean i even look for suicide bombers you know anything out of the anything out of

the ordinary. once you reach that level of your senses being that heightened it's hard to turn it off so i'm being in a cage tiger. soon after. i got back in december of forty four there is nobody you can talk to you know there was nobody who had been in combat around. i can remember still seeing that grown red glow on the tip of a christ. and my god i was home. one day you're killing somebody they're trying to kill you and the next day you're sitting in a bar in new york city it's it's crazy. i

took so normal nobody knows that your hand at work nobody you know if you got a you got a headache or you got a hole in your head that you can't see. when i wrote home that i was wounded i had been in france from the middle of august to i was it dad said to the newspaper reporter who interviewed him he was only there for a few days that was to me the only was a at that time not now was a real rejection of who i was as a man he didn't last he didn't make it he got hit. and i think i didn't even understand it then but that started a diploma in our relationship which spiraled downward downward downward.

so you don't talk about it or do you sit on it. and say i was lucky why didn't i can't why didn't i have both somebody you know guys do that or why did no prometheus why didn't i do this. i want to try i got on a stool and. i remember i was living in the y. in new york city totally alone i don't just to put my bathrobe sash iraq hung it sort of share. and why i got down was because. my friends. i had made after the war who had been through the same thing i had and i felt if i did that to myself i would betray. the bond we had.

coochie a vietnam federer fourteen thousand nine hundred sixty six by a.p. they call it hell's halfacre because of the american bull. that had been stale there tano do well and vietcong snipers have done most of the damage today was no exception on the subcommittee on the twenty seventh and for today the famed well founds moved out to attack the snipers opened up from such perfectly camouflaged positions the most of the a copy what

a whole day without seein one of the enemy a sergeant was hit in the shoulder and leg as a rolled over a third shot were up to his back. a medic broke from cover and rushed to his side as he dropped to his knees to began given a bullet smashed into the stomach both the sergeant in the medic die and the tiller above blodgett was laid down to screen a squad go on after the wall and it especially his fourth wall and then the hip crossed the deadly fifty yards with the fallen t.v.'s he was hit again this was an old. you're there yes it's hard to. bring back to minimum. i don't know any real

national hero crap when they were building up to go on to think about my grandson. they were of age where. if they had to draft they would be drafted so i start thinking of what i could do to protect them to keep them from rolling. i join the military but the same reasons that the young people join now because it is that poor people a lot of people on the lower end of the economic scale all the ones that fight these wars. even know more about my gma america came out years later and say it vietnam was a mistake it did not take the brain from me nor did it take the guilt that i carried for killing people when i went to vietnam i was

a card court. and i believed what i was dole in there was the right thing and i was a good soldier but now i'm a soldier on the other side and i think i'm just as good. i told my soul a long time ago i'm just here trying to rebuild. the navy uniform and i do for. people ask me why aren't you afraid to go to prison i mean you're saying you're a war criminal. brother i'm already in prison this is veterans for peace chapter zero nine nine western north carolina hoping that this moment registers in everyone's mind that this is one of the total costs of war.

a the old. the old. the old. the. sick food festooned who is a great war political a one wrote a vine wall was a scene who stopped our clocks though we met him grim and gay and i know people who got their clocks stopped so badly they never got beyond drugs booze women suicide whatever you want to caught and that happened to me and i think my clock was stopped for close to forty years before i got over that i was ashamed i was ashamed that i had been wounded i was ashamed that i hadn't

been a hero i never understood that my problems with my parents my problems with my wife my ex-wife were buried in the fact that i had gotten blown up i'd never i never understood it repressed it totally and then. i began to go to a coffee shop and i would hear the big bands of the night hundred forty five and i would weep like a baby in public i had no idea that what i was doing i could weep right now was going back and try to fly that the little boy all night and what happened. the fall of eighty four i was driven to go back to fly to look some birds to spend the night there to rent a car and file and find the place where i was wounded on september seventh one

thousand and forty four. and then suddenly. i found the bridge that we crossed it had been blown when i'd been shot. i discovered to the hour at the moment where i had been wounded forty years before and i cannot explain it but that discovery began my healing. my generation really repressed with the war was about we didn't want to talk about it we weren't allowed to talk about it and then slowly in the one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. this whole thing of the greatest generation occurred it was wonderful you know the greatest generation what a nice thing to call us and we forgot what we had done we forgot that we had been animals for a while war is about one thing it's about killing you either

learn to kill somebody else or you get killed or wounded yourself and that's why i've become to so low the idea of war i think that's all a powerful force. nama sob and it's constant what may i i think of it everyday. to fire back from to memorise still go to counseling for. and. it is now worth it but what i did do was managed to find some good in that war. vietnam a me a better person and made me people more. made me understand that we are all one one people. there's a certain amount of guilt i think you learn to live with you compartmentalize it or

you make you rationalize you see and i call that excuses i mean i really don't have to make excuses even. so there are things i wish i had not done. but there's no way to change. my. mind. when you come to the point that you were not sure you were actually not that there was not the way to saddle. and disagreement. and kind of like the poster you can have your and i.

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the vote. on this sort of resolution or seventy one twenty six news two thirds of the senate president having voted to your firm of the resolution of ratification has agreed to and that's our top story our breaking news tonight it came down to the wire but just two hours ago the start nuclear arms cuts treaty was finally passed by the u.s. senate after last minute intensive personal lobbying by president obama to win over enough republicans to swing the vital but moscow is welcoming the move as a cornerstone in its relations with washington much more on this story ahead also.

russia's best known by them. on the chapman the lenses of paul to russia's young political aspirants we'll bring you all the details in just a few minutes. media reports suggest the u.s. is planning a military push from afghanistan into pakistan despite intense opposition from islamabad a full report on that ahead to. hello this is r t but i was kevin zero in our top story at one am from moscow within the past two hours the u.s. senate has finally approved the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia after months of bitter and divisive wrangling on capitol hill intensive personal lobbying in recent days by president obama help sway enough republican opponents to swing the vital vote at the end of the the day.