War is Hell: In Country Resistance, Part 2

In this powerful episode of A Matter of Conscience, veterans of the Vietnam War bear witness to the unthinkable — and reveal the moral courage it took to refuse complicity. From infantry soldiers surviving ambushes, to a military intelligence officer who risked his life to stop the torture of prisoners, to a whistleblower threatened into silence after reporting war crimes, these are stories of young men — barely out of their teens — confronting the darkest extremes of warfare. We’ll also hear from two Vietnamese women, survivors of the My Lai massacre, whose devastating testimonies put a human face on a U.S. military atrocity that shook the world.  This is not a comfortable listen, but it is a necessary one to understand why many U.S. soldiers came to oppose the war they were fighting. Check out the show notes.