It’s a helluva hoot. … It’s a lot of fun to shoot some people.

––  Lieutenant General James L Mattis, United states Marine Corps

       The No Gun Ri massacre: retreating United States Armed Forces (private mercenaries), begin killing 400 Korean War refugees in the confused belief that they are enemy combatants.

       [restored 9/3/2022]

 

       Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Truman authorizes the clandestine, illegal shipment of eight C-47 cargo transports, laden with 15,000,000 “dollars” in weapons to aid France in the First Vietnam/Franco-Vietnamese War.

       Postscript: The United states eventually gave France 100,000,000 “dollars” in a quixotic effort to stop the spread of communism.

       [added 9/3/2022]

Subsequent Events:

References:

Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza, “Massacre at No Gun Ri,” Orange County (California) Register, 30 September 1999, News:1, 6-7.

Stanley A. Karnow, Vietnam: A History, (New York: Viking, 1983), 177.

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Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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