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Hell's Endless Trails from the USA

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Gary Brumback
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The Burden of Fear. Living in a police state and a gun-spiked state like America is tantamount to living fearfully for most everybody but the power elite (except the latter's fear of an uprising may be a repressed or guarded one). Think twice about joining a protest movement, going to a theater, a major outdoor event, or even to the shopping mall?

USA Hell Away

Counting sand would be easier than tallying the total number of casualties and property destroyed from US overt and covert military operations since 1776. So, I decided to share with you the tally made by S.B. Wilson of the deaths and destruction from one war alone, the US war waged against the Southeast Asian people in Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia - what is known as the Viet Nam War. Mr. Wilson, now a lawyer, lost both legs crushed by an oncoming munitions train he had attempted to halt. Seventy-five percent of South Viet Nam was considered a free-fire zone (i.e., genocidal). Here is his tally:

-Over 6 million Southeast Asians killed.

-Over 64,000 US and Allied soldiers killed.

-Over 1,600 US soldiers, and 300,000

Vietnamese soldiers remain missing.

-Thousands of amputees, paraplegics, blind, deaf, and other maiming's created.

-13,000 of 21,000 of Vietnamese villages, or 62 percent, severely damaged or destroyed, mostly by bombing.

-Nearly 950 churches and pagodas destroyed by bombing.

-350 hospitals and 1,500 maternity wards destroyed by bombing.

-Nearly 3,000 high schools and universities destroyed by bombing.

-Over 15,000 bridges destroyed by bombing.

-10 million cubic meters of dikes destroyed by bombing.

-Over 3,700 US fixed-wing aircraft lost.

-36,125,000 US helicopter sorties during the war; over 10,000 helicopters lost or severely damaged.

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Dr. Gary Brumback is a long-ago retired organizational psychologist turned "arm-chair peace and social justice activist.
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