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Vietnam: War Crimes

WITNESS: “Thirty seconds after the shooting stopped, I knew that I was going to do something about it,” said Jamie Henry, who saw many civilians killed.

WITNESS: “Thirty seconds after the shooting stopped, I knew that I was going to do something about it,” said Jamie Henry, who saw many civilians killed.  (Damon Winter / LAT)

Legacy of loss

LEGACY OF LOSS: A hat lies in the mud in modern-day Vietnam. Archives describe recurrent attacks on ordinary Vietnamese by a violent minority of troops in every Army division in Vietnam.  (Damon Winter / LAT)

Vindicated at last

VINDICATED AT LAST: Jamie Henry, now a logger in California, was among members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War whom the government worked to discredit. But military investigators substantiated his accounts of war crimes.  (Damon Winter / LAT)

New perspective

NEW PERSPECTIVE: “We can’t change current practices unless we acknowledge the past,” says retired Brig. Gen. John H. Johns, a Vietnam veteran who served on the war crimes task force and once supported keeping the records secret.  (Damon Winter / LAT)

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Looking back

LOOKING BACK: “We could have court-martialed them but didn’t,” retired Lt. Gen. Robert G. Gard says of soldiers accused of war crimes.  (Damon Winter / LAT)

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