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Nick Turse and the Real Vietnam War<\/h2>\n
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Nick Turse<\/a>\u2018s new book, \u201cKill Anything That Moves<\/a>,\u201d is a ghastly revelation of previously unreported war crimes committed in Vietnam in the wake of the My Lai Massacre. He tells Bill Moyers how 15 years ago a staffer at the National Archives outside Washington, D.C., pointed him toward the \u201chorror trove\u201d of accounts that led to the book.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really stumbled upon this project,\u201d Turse said. \u201cI was a graduate student when I began it. I was working on a project on post-traumatic stress disorder among U.S. Vietnam veterans. And I would go down to the National Archives just outside of D.C. I was looking for hard data to match up with, you know, self-report material, what veterans told us about their service. And on one of these trips, I was down there for about two weeks. And about every research avenue that I had pursued was a dead end. And I finally went to an archivist that I worked with there.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I said to him, \u2018I can\u2019t go back to my boss empty-handed. I need something, at least a lead.\u2019 And he, you know, said a few words to me that really changed my life. He said, \u2018Do you think that witnessing war crimes could cause post-traumatic stress?\u2019 And I said, \u2018You know, that\u2019s an excellent hypothesis. What do you have on war crimes?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin an hour, I was going through a collection of boxes, thousands and thousands of pages of documents. To call it, you know, an information treasure trove is the wrong phrase. It was a horror trove. These were reports of massacres, murders, mutilation, torture. And these were investigations that were carried out by the U.S. military during the war. A collection of documents called the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Collection. And this was a task force that was set up in the Pentagon. And it was designed to track war crimes cases in the wake of the exposure of the My Lai Massacre.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2013Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nick Turse<\/a>‘s new book, “Kill Anything That Moves<\/a>,” is a ghastly revelation of previously unreported war crimes committed in Vietnam in the wake of the My Lai Massacre. He tells Bill Moyers how 15 years ago a staffer at the National Archives outside Washington, D.C., pointed him toward the “horror trove” of accounts that led to the book.<\/p>\n

“I really stumbled upon this project,” Turse said. “I was a graduate student when I began it. I was working on a project on post-traumatic stress disorder among U.S. Vietnam veterans. And I would go down to the National Archives just outside of D.C. I was looking for hard data to match up with, you know, self-report material, what veterans told us about their service. And on one of these trips, I was down there for about two weeks. And about every research avenue that I had pursued was a dead end. And I finally went to an archivist that I worked with there.<\/p>\n

“And I said to him, ‘I can’t go back to my boss empty-handed. I need something, at least a lead.’ And he, you know, said a few words to me that really changed my life. He said, ‘Do you think that witnessing war crimes could cause post-traumatic stress?’ And I said, ‘You know, that’s an excellent hypothesis. What do you have on war crimes?’<\/p>\n

“Within an hour, I was going through a collection of boxes, thousands and thousands of pages of documents. To call it, you know, an information treasure trove is the wrong phrase. It was a horror trove. These were reports of massacres, murders, mutilation, torture. And these were investigations that were carried out by the U.S. military during the war. A collection of documents called the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Collection. And this was a task force that was set up in the Pentagon. And it was designed to track war crimes cases in the wake of the exposure of the My Lai Massacre.”<\/p>\n

Read a transcript of their conversation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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