How The Pentagon Tried To Cure America Of Its “vietnam Syndrome”

(Credit: Wikimedia/Deptartment of Defense) In August 1965, Morley Safer, a reporter for “CBS News,” accompanied a unit of U.S. marines on a search-and-destroy mission to the Vietnamese village of Cam Ne. Using cigarette lighters and a flamethrower, the troops proceeded to burn down 150 houses, wound three women, kill one child and take four men prisoner.

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