Hearts and Minds
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1:45:00
[Floyd] When I was there, I never saw
a child that got burned by napalm.

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I didn't drop napalm,
but I dropped other things just as bad.

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I dropped C.B.U.s,
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which can't destroy anything.
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It's meant for people.
It's an antipersonnel weapon.

1:45:18
We used to drop canister upon canister
of these things...

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with 200 tumbling little balls in there
about this big around...

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with something like
600 pellets in each ball...

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that would blow out
as soon as it hit the ground,

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uh, and shred people to pieces.
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They couldn't be gotten out
in many cases.

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People would suffer. They would live,
but they would suffer, you know?

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Then often they would die afterwards.
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This would cause people
to have to take care of them, you know?

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But I look at my children now...
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and, uh,
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I don't know
what would happen if, uh--

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uh, what I would think about
if someone napalmed them.

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[Sighs]
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[Man] Do you think we've learned
anything from all this?

1:46:33
I think we're trying not to.
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I think I'm trying not to sometimes.
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I can't even cry easily.
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From my, uh,
my manhood image.

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[Clears Throat]
I think Americans have tried--

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We've all tried very hard...
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to escape
what we've learned in Vietnam,

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to not come to the logical conclusions
of what's happened there.


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