Napalm and the Evil That Man Do

The evil that Man do, the US military outdid themselves...
When  they rained  napalm into the lush jungles of Vietnam...

Political ideologies were being fought, and the US was arrogant with their might...
But the US was suffering  badly against the guerrila tactics fought out of sight....

All hell breaking loose in the treacherous  dense jungles there in Vietnam...
Against the yellow skinned slit eyed freedom fighters of Vietnam.....

Victory  at all costs, chemical weapons of the worst kind....
The US military brass approved them without a second thought....

So the day happened, when the US rained fire from the skies...
While the brass in the Pentagon awaited the outcome of their horrifying decisions...

The chemical napalm melted skin and flesh, fusing them to the bones...
The searing heat and the excruciating pain that came after the napalm...

One cannot imagine the horror and the blind panic when the napalm down it came...
Here comes a naked running girl, terror in her eyes and panic driven......

CLICK! goes the camera shutters and she is into worldwide immortality....
That panicked screaming girl running away from a death so searing.....

When that picture hit newstands the world over...
The world took stock of the evil that Man do, the US did better....

It does beget the all too important  question to think over..., 
Does the end justifies the means, to those people in position of power...?

http://www.star2.com/health/wellness/2017/01/16/laser-treatment-for-napalm-girl/

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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