Reply #35: We have the internet - but the My Lai story was far bigger in the Vietnam era

[karynnj]

than Haditha is now. Broadcast TV - there was no cable- covered it on every channel. If you had TV on in the "news hour", you heard it. There was a cover-up, but it got exposed. The media functioned then and most of us - including college students where I was - were shocked, sickened and appalled and their was talk late into the night of things like Nuremberg.

So on communication - even with the internet - we are less well off today. We have a MSM that is filled with propaganda.

Supposedly the manuels were rewritten and practices changed based on what happened in Vietnam. The changes may have helped, but it is clear they surely have not ended the abuses.