#tw/// vietnam war

[intersectionalpraxis]

Someone also wrote a brief description about these massacres and brutal systematic raping and often killing of Vietnamese women and children by these despicable and depraved US soldiers. It is absolutely horrific. I hope these soldiers are eternally damned.

I will be adding this to my reading list. This was recommended by someone in the comment section for those who haven't read this one yet:

#feminist #social justice #feminism #american war crimes #american war on vietnam #vietnam #history #vietnam war #tw sa mention #tw rape #tw abuse #united states #us army #us imperialism #western imperialism

[terrence-silver]

Imagining high school sweetheart!beloved and Terry getting married before he gets shipped off to war and Beloved always sending letters to Terry while he’s away

Bonus: Terry comes back home after the war and finds Beloved’s unsent letters to him that were written when he was M.I.A. and sees how worried she was about him

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I feel nobody would believe Twig is married because he's, well...Twig!

He's so young! So shy! So wide eyed! Scrawny! The idea of Privates infinitely more experienced and worldly than him only just being in the stage of sharing correspondence back home with their respective sweethearts and go-steady girlfriends while this kid here is already legally married is straight out of the Twilight Zone for most of his fellow soldiers who immediately wrote him off as a sore loser, perhaps with the rare exception of John Kreese who stands up for him and defends him when he's teased and called a liar who just about invented a full-blown Missus for himself to seem cool and less of a wimp in the eyes of everyone else, the letters he receives from beloved deemed fabricated one way or another even though they're actually entirely legitimate, the parcels bearing the seal of the military mail, arriving the same as everyone else's packages do.

''Did your momma write those?''

Someone might cruelly jest right before Kreese gives them a look, telling them to step off.

Gets slightly worse during POW captivity. All the members of Twig's platoon are in the same mess but it doesn't prevent in-fighting and the day-to-day cruelty and microaggressions from continuing even inside of a cage when validly, once communications are entirely cut off and they're trapped deep in enemy territory, there is no way for beloved's letters or anyone's as for that matter to come in and circulate, and the soldiers and even Twig's own Commanding Officer Turner never let him forget that like he's somehow to blame (And in their mind's eye, he is. They feel he's got them all captured through his negligence and incompetence. There will be payback for that. If the Vietcong don't do him in, his own will. For all Turner cares, Terry Silver got them here and pray to God, in the following weeks, he'll make this kid's life so difficult in this cage he'll wish the Vietcong ended him day one, bullet to the brain, same as Ponytail and what better way to utilize psychological warfare than to use the boy's own spouse against him the way he later tries with John and Betsy), finding it an apt pastime to pester one of their own even when facing death, torture and execution from the Vietcong that captured them. It's easier in a weird and very sick sense; poking and prodding at the weakest link in the hierarchy of things to better endure the gravity of the situation and just forget for a while.

You do some pretty awful things under duress.

''Guess the love letters stopped now, eh, Twig?'' Turner mocks.

''Momma back home ran out of ink?''

The older man laughs into his own chin as Twig scoots further back against the bamboo bars of their shared jail, missing beloved so badly he can feel the ache of it in his bones, loathing the fact he has no control of anything going on and John Kreese, witnessing the sight and having stood up for his friend countless times vows that one of these days, he's gonna give their Commanding Officer a piece of his mind even if he ends up court martialed for it after they're released seeing as how John can vouch that if the other soldiers are boneheads Captain Turner has enough intel on his own men to know for a fact Twig never lied and that he is in fact married back home. That beloved's real the same way his Betsy is real. Man has no excuse for the hell he's putting Twig through just because he can. John gets his chance to retaliate for the abuse a few weeks later once the Vietcong force them to fight over an open pit of snakes.

As for Twig?

Once they're rescued from the POW camp, he is finally reunited with the stack of letters beloved's been sending him back at base and it's like being reunited with a missing limb. When he gets home, beloved gives him a package of unsent mail just around the time he was captured and gone missing. Everything he's been made fun of entirely real and genuine; not one word of it a lie or made up. Everything right there, in black and white, written down with beloved's own pen. Every bit of concern. Fear. Care. Of course, it only serves to turn him a little more...well...Terry Silver as we know him. No point in being truthful if he won't be believed anyway, even when he is. Might as well fabricated. Might as well manipulate. Everyone who ever laughed at him died. And he's here. He survived. He is loved. He's won. And he'll keep winning and winning.

He hugs the stack of letters and beloved close to his chest with a vice grip.

The first seeds of something very dark have long been sown.

#high school sweetheart!beloved #terry silver #terry silver twig #twig terry silver #tw; vietnam #tw; soldiers #tw; military life #letters #tw; pow captivity #tw; vietnam war #john kreese #captain george turner #captain turner #terry silver x reader #terry silver x beloved #fluff #dark fluff #angst #ponytail

[eclectic-trash]

I went down a YouTube rabbit hole and wound up on a video that was a list of most gruesome and violent scenes in movies.

In the video, there featured clips from a movie called “My Lai Four”. (the scenes shown were very gruesome so I will not describe them.)

I hadn’t heard of it so I looked it up to see what it was about. Only to find out it’s a film based on the true events of the My Lai massacre.

What happened is so disgustingly vile and evil that I refuse to say exactly what happened, but if you aren’t easily triggered by anything then I highly suggest you look it up.

Basically, it was a series of horrific war crimes committed by United States Army personnel during the Vietnam War.

After the war, 26 soldiers were charged with the crimes committed. Only 1 was convicted. He was given a LIFE SENTENCE but only served 3.5 years under house arrest.

This obviously horrified and nauseated me, but it also had me wondering about what other war crimes the U.S. has committed. Which led me into a very terrifying deep dive.

Admittedly, I had to stop my researching prematurely. Only because it was making me physically ill.

As a United States citizen, I thought I was fully aware how fucked up my country was - oh how wrong I was.

The lack of support for Palestine from my government is starting to come into focus for me now.

What is happening in Palestine are War Crimes. They are Crimes Against Humanity.

There is no excuse for what is happening.

There is no “but they…” or “I feel…”. No.

This is wrong. Going into someone else’s country to colonize it by bombing, starving, and mutilating innocent civilians is evil.

End of story.

#FreePalestine

#I am truly disgusted by my country #u.s. politics #us politics #united states #israel #palestine #gaza #hamas #free palestine #free gaza #vietnam #the Vietnam war #my lai massacre #my lai #my khe #war crimes #trigger warning #tw war #tw war crimes #world news

[bear-of-mirrors]

…… when you learn that the US supported the Khmer Rouge and even voted to let them keep Cambodia’s UN seat until 1993 after Vietnamese intervention deposed them and stopped Pol Pot’s genocide in 1979 so that the US could try and weaken Vietnam’s influence in Southeast Asia.

#cambodia #cold war #vietnam war #vietnam #united nations #united states #history #khmer rouge #tw genocide

[nobodycanknowihavethisapp]

Something in TPN that I have heard NO ONE mention is the symbolism behind Ray's attempt, self immolation has been used as an act of nonviolent protest for years, the definition of self immolation is literally "sacrificing oneself by setting themselves on fire usually for religious or political protest or martyrdom." My personal belief was that Ray wasn't so much suicidal, as in he wanted to die just to end his own suffering, but to make a final statement, he said himself that setting himself on fire was going to be an act of intense protest, waiting until he is the top product and ripping it away from them before they can get it, making one last sacrifice before they're taken to freedom, basically a huge "fuck you" to the farms and his mother who he served acknowledging the horrors of what the plantations did. The most famous instance of self-immolation is by Thich Quan Duc during the Vietnam war, he set himself on fire in an intersection on the streets of Saigon during a protest against religious and discrimination and political oppression.

#Trigger warning #TW #ray the promised neverland #the promised neverland #tpn manga #tpn #I thought of this when reading about the Vietnam war protests #rest in peace Thich Quan Duc

[hornswogglingpapergirls]

TW

According to declassified military documents it’s likely that unknown thousands of Vietnamese civilians were killed in Vietnam. Torture was common, even of people who were likely farmers and innocents. It’s very likely that soldiers murdered civilians and lied about them being enemies to boost their body counts; it’s likely that the higher ups were aware of this (discrepancies in body count vs confiscated weapons is INSANE, lots of suspicious stuff, some veterans spoke out & were covered up/discredited). Source: The War Behind Me by Deborah Nelson (2008)

#Vietnam war #war crimes #racism #anti asian hate #us military #United states #USA #America #war #70s #history #tw war crimes #books #paperl

[dramaticnerdwithanxiety11]

I HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THE INACCURACIES ON PEOPLE WRITING KLAUS IN THE WAR!!!

him getting sober in the VIETNAM WAR is UNREALISTIC AS SHIT

the only reason he MIGHT get sober is for a potentially sober Dave, and even then he’d probably still drink and smoke, or for drug safety (when has he cared lmao)

Drug use was a serious problem in the vietnam war. It started with just weed, because it was super super fuckin easy to get and it took the edge off and all that, but the higher up decided that they needed to put a stop to it and started sending people away and taking away their weed when they found it on them. So they switched to harder drugs

LSD, shrooms, cocaine, heroin, etc etc- super fucking common. Vietnam was a horrible place and nobody left it mentally unscathed, some worse than just PTSD. They did drugs to cope, to help them escape from that hellscape and they still did their jobs as soldiers while doing it

Not to mention that most of them didnt even continue the drugs when they got home. They were all forced to do a sobriety test before going home, and if they were sober they could go home and most didn’t continue the drugs afterwars.

SO YEAH Klaus, seeing everybody else around him doing drugs, probably wouldn’t try to get sober especially not when thrown into a war. This is shown in canon too when he only starts getting sober after he gets back, if only to conjure Dave!

So if you make him get sober in vietnam youre wrong, unless he’s doing it for love but there’d be a LOT of relapses since he’d be absolutely surrounded by temptation. getting drugs was super easy there im sorry to say

#drugs #vietnam #vietnam war #umbrella academy #klaus hargreeves #david katz #the umbrella academy #drug use #tw drugs #drugs tw #tw drug use #tw caps

[johnbrownanarchist]

Probably the best anti war song ever written. Many of the lyrics ring true today.

#tw slur #vietnam war #free palestine #Youtube

[onebloodsoakedlion]

It's time for another meme compilation. I'm gonna post a few Fire Emblem (Fates) memes to start off with, then some OMORI memes.

Also SPOILER WARNING, particularly for OMORI!

(Basically the 7 empty notebooks meme but with Hinoka, Azama, Setsuna and Yukimura.)

Ryoma, please, for the love of God and all that is good, LOOK AFTER YOURSELF FOR ONCE!

I want this to be a meme format! (This image personally gave ME the ability to kill, too!)

NOW FOR THE OMORI MEMES!!! (This is where most of the spoilers are!)

Me when my intrusive thoughts get overwhelming.

21 Pilots - "Stressed Out" OMORI pun. Comes in colour and black and white.

Another variant of the first OMORI meme, except SUNNY is dealing with Vietnam War flashbacks.

#memes #Fire Emblem Fates #OMORI #Fire Emblem Spoilers #OMORI Spoilers #swear warning #tw suicide mention #incorrect quotes #Vietnam War Flashbacks #this image has given me the ability to kill #Ryoma Fire Emblem #Xander Fire Emblem #SUNNY OMORI #Hinoka Fire Emblem #Oboro Fire Emblem #Azama Fire Emblem #Setsuna Fire Emblem #Yukimura Fire Emblem #My headcanon is that Ryoma is a lion so that's why the Lobster Lord memes make me cringe so hard.

[terrence-silver]

I…actually think Terry Silver went to Vietnam because he was patriotic, contrary to popular belief that he was forced, given some sort of ultimatum, that he'd be disinherited if he didn't or that it was meant to 'man him up'. if his father wanted to 'man him up', a young Terry in the tattoo parlor scene wouldn't be telling John his dad wants him 'to put this whole Vietnam business behind', I feel. Because if you wanted to teach someone a once-in-a-lifetime lesson, however toxic, why would you then, immediately after the lesson is ''learned'', instruct your son to forget it? There's something counterproductive about that. Wouldn't it make more sense if Terry's dad demanded he'd remember the very thing that he supposedly forced him to do? No, I think a young Terry was unhinged in his own way and that he left behind all of his obligations as a single child and heir to the family fortune and company and volunteered for war even though he, validly, being a rich kid, didn't have to, because the way Terry might've seen it was a way ticket to what he considered independence and being in control of something. That and 'it's just the thing that is done if you're a winner, not a wimp'. That's what you just do if you're a man.

#i mean the tkk and ck theme of 'men doing what men do' is so prevalent that this seems accurate #terry silver #kk3 #cobra kai #tw; vietnam #tw; war #terry silver's father

[niteshade925]

What kind of irked me about true crime podcasts that talked about Richard Ramirez and the wikipedia page is how they all just gloss over the fact that his cousin Miguel took part in WAR CRIMES by killing and raping Vietnamese women while in Vietnam as a soldier in the us army, and how that was a huge factor in shaping Richard Ramirez to be the inhuman scumbag that he was. Instead they all just pretend that Richard Ramirez became a piece of inhuman shit out of nowhere. Guys. There is a fucking elephant in the room. Guys.

#also funny how even the podcasts that do mention this avoid the words 'war crime' #:) #tw violence #tw violent death #tw r*pe #I'm getting more and more annoyed just listening to these people absolutely gloss over the war crimes these inhuman pieces of shit #were committing in other countries #if this is what Richard Ramirez became #can you fucking imagine what happened in Vietnam to Vietnamese people #here the law can bring justice to richard #over there you guys were DESTROYING THE LAWS SO YOUR PEOPLE WOULD NEVER BE CONVICTED OR PUNISHED #think about that #and these people are all about 'peace and love' #disgusting #absolutely fucking disgusting #hypocrites should go to hell

[the-rodent-gentleman]

Summary: There is a saying back in Vietnam: "Rivers have meanders, human life has phases."

These are his.

Fandom: Hey Arnold!

Relationships: Mr. Hyunh (Hey Arnold!)/Original Character(s), Mr. Hyunh (Hey Arnold!)/Eduardo (Hey Arnold!)

Characters: Mr. Hyunh (Hey Arnold!), Mai Hyunh, Original Characters, Ernie Potts, Phil Shortman, Arnold Shortman, Miles Shortman, Stella Shortman, Eduardo (Hey Arnold!)

Additional Tags: Chronological, Mentions of the Vietnam War, Minor Character Death, Canon Compliant, Use of Vietnamese, Starvation, Falling In Love Again, Bisexual Mr. Hyunh, Family Reunions, Cross-Posted on FanFiction.Net, Cross-Posted on ArchiveOfOurOwn

FanFiction: Link  

#Mr. Hyunh #Hey Arnold #nickelodeon #favorite characters #tw: vietnam war #tw: character death #the rodent's fanfics

[grubhubgamingofficial]

This is your daily reminder to subscribe to the Freddy Fazbear War Hero AU, where the bear valiantly fought the red commies during the Vietnam War.

Thank you for your service, Fazbear.

#five nights at freddy's #freddy deployed in vietnam #tw vietnam war #fnaf #freddy fazbear #goofy ahh

[castielmacleod]

Love spnblr because people will be like “I hate John for being a selfish piece of shit father who fucked up his sons for life” and you’ll be like “yeah and for volunteering for Vietnam” and they will be dead silent and you’re just like “And for volunteering for Vietnam? For literally choosing to go murder people overseas in the name of American jingoism?” And they’ll just be like “…Oh look the prequel!!! Aww John used to be such a lil puppy dog 🥺” and you’re left like. The prequel that takes place after he returns from fucking murdering people in Vietnam?????

#For so many reasons….. can we perhaps not woobify this character #My posts #Ask to tag #Tw Vietnam War #I did have to see someone unironically say John in “Nam” was just like Dean in Purgatory. Anyone here ever think before they speak

[back-and-totheleft]

"What else could I do?"

A: We don't listen to nineteen year olds. We don't listen to young people. Young people have problems. Some of them are very suicidal, as you know, and I confront these nightmares [in my book]. I had them.

Q: You were having suicidal thoughts at nineteen?

A: Oh, yeah. Very much so. This is before the war. I didn't know what to do with my life. I was lost, really lost. I'm trying to explain why I actually volunteered to go to Vietnam [and] combat. There was nothing else for me. [The Army] was the way to maybe solve this issue: if I was going to off myself, it would be done, perhaps, for me by the forces in Vietnam. So I was willing to die - I thought. [...]

I got wounded twice, I went through all the stuff, saw a fair share of combat. Went back to the States disillusioned, I suppose. Very disillusioned. I realized I wanted to live because I saw a lot of death and I [realized] I didn't want to die. [...]

I came back deadened. Numb. I didn't know who I was or what I was. That's a problem for returning veterans, as you know, in any war, any place. Our society was not geared towards war. People were not enlisting or volunteering. Most people were avoiding it. In my class at Yale, it was considered that [military service] was for poor people. That bothered me. [...]

You can let war finish you off. It makes you callous, very callous. [...] My father, being a Republican and pro-Vietnam, at one point...we fought like dog and cat after the war because...you understand the dichotomy, [to him] here I was a pot-smoking, long-haired hippie type coming back from this war. But I wasn't a hippie. I was a screwed up veteran.

So. After a long period of drugs and this and that, I ended up at NYU on the GI Bill, which is where I went to film school. Because what else could I do? I didn't have any skills except how to fire a rifle, how to build a fire, how to live outdoors in the jungle. Those were my skills.

Oliver Stone interviewed by Patrick Bet-David on his podcast, March 11 2022 [x]

#oliver stone #vietnam war #patrick bet-david #podcasts #videos #tw: suicide #despression #ptsd #coming home #veterans

[arctic-hands]

[Image Description: headline by the Texas Observer that says "Hey Hey, NRA, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?" The byline says "Hundreds of anti-gun violence protesters took over Discovery Green Park in Houston yesterday." The article was written by James Dobbins and posted May twenty-eighth, twenty twenty-two. End I.D.]

I respect the fact that it was a Texas news publication that repurposed this old chant.

#it used to be 'hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today' re: Vietnam war/draft #Texas #Texas Observer #Uvalde #school shooting tw #child death tw #nra #wayne lapierre