It is if you're American. Atrocities were committed virtually every day in Vietnam, the scant few they were forced to charge got little more than slaps on the wrist, if they got convicted at all. One jury had convicted a service-member of premeditated murder but they withdrew the verdict after finding out there was a mandatory life sentence.

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