{"id":652,"date":"2017-05-04T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=652"},"modified":"2017-05-04T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T01:14:00","slug":"captured-vietnamese-males","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Captured Vietnamese Males"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lengthy conversations with several\u00a0Vietnam vets and an ex-drone sensor operator&#8217;s mention of the Winter Soldier Investigation last week prompted me to pick up Nick Turse&#8217;s <em>Kill Anything That Moves<\/em> today. It&#8217;s been decades since I&#8217;ve read much on Vietnam, but those years\u00a0quickly come back in Turse&#8217;s excerpts from trial transcripts and other documents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a lieutenant &#8222;captured two unarmed and unidentified Vietnamese males, estimated 2-3 and 7-8 years\u00a0\u2026 and killed them for no reason&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I try to imagine the investigator or court reporter who recorded this. How do you write about a U.S. Army officer capturing an unarmed two or three-year-old?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lengthy conversations with several\u00a0Vietnam vets and an ex-drone sensor operator&#8217;s mention of the Winter Soldier Investigation last week prompted me to pick up Nick Turse&#8217;s Kill Anything That Moves today. It&#8217;s been decades since I&#8217;ve read much on Vietnam, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=652\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}