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Raymond
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RE. US soldiers playing soccer with the decapitated heads of Iraqi
soldiers.is not a strange or unique idea. American troops have used
the heads of enemies for centuries and for numerous interesting
purposes
In early America Indian male scalps over 10 years sold for $130 each
Indian female scalps no age specified $50 each
Indian live female or male child under age 10 years $130 each
Accusations that U.S. troops have killed civilians are commonplace in
Iraq, though most are judged later (naturally) to be unfounded or
exaggerated. Navy investigators announced last week that they were
looking into whether Marines intentionally killed 15 Iraqi civilians -
four of them women and five of them children - during fighting last
November
Maybe the troops don't know about earlier Indian scalping for a
bounty. If they find out about it, do you think they would start
scalping the Iraqis even if just for souvenirs. As long as the troops
are killing children, there is no point in not scalping them too. The
skulls make great paper clip holders for your desk.
Soldiers have brought home souvenirs of war for as long as there have
been battles to provide them. Archive footage of the 1942-5 Pacific
war was recently discovered showing US soldiers shooting wounded
Japanese and using bayonets to hack at the corpses while looting them.
Ex-servicemen told of the widespread practice of carrying off gold
teeth, ears and heads from dead - and sometimes still living -
Japanese soldiers. In the Vietnam war there were similar reports of
decapitation (and photographs of soldiers proudly holding the heads)
and of severed ears and fingers.
Such acts are illegal under international law. NO problem though.
Article 15 of the First Geneva Convention says that warring sides must
'search for the dead and prevent their being despoiled'. That's
Bullshit. In the prevailing brutality of war, it remains an
instruction hard to enforce American troops are always trying to get
"Head." We need a general Hooker.
The members of the Vietnam Tiger Force unit - all seasoned,
professional soldiers, rather than greenhorn recruits - quickly
degenerated into a demonic killing machine that tortured, murdered and
terrorized its way through the civilian population of the area,
blowing up bunkers in which women and children cowered, shooting
farmers at will and decorating the soldiers and their weapons with
ghoulish
trophies of war - the ears and scalps of their victims.
A former Tiger Force sergeant told reporters that he "killed so many
civilians he lost count." The Toledo Blade estimates that innocent
casualties were in the hundreds. Another veteran, a medic with the
unit, recalled 150 unarmed civilians murdered in a single month.
Superior officers, especially the Glanton-like battalion commander
Gerald Morse (or "Ghost Rider," as he fancied himself), sponsored the
carnage. Orders were given to "shoot everything that moves," and Morse
established a body- count quota of 327 (the numerical designation of
the battalion) that Tiger Force enthusiastically filled with dead
peasants and teenage girls.
Soldiers in other units who complained about these exterminations were
ignored or warned to keep silent, while Tiger Force slackers were
quickly transferred out. As with Glanton's gang, or, for that matter,
Einsatzgruppen, the Nazi mobile extermination squads in the western
Ukraine in 1941, atrocity created its own insatiable momentum.
Eventually, nothing was unthinkable in the Song Ve Valley.
"A 13-year-old girl's throat was slashed after she was sexually
assaulted, and a young mother was shot to death after soldiers torched
her hut. An unarmed teenager was shot in the back after a platoon
sergeant ordered the youth to leave a village, and a baby was
decapitated so that a soldier could remove a necklace."
Stories about the beheading of the baby spread so widely that the Army
was finally forced to conduct a secret inquiry in 1971. The
investigation lasted for almost five years and probed 30 alleged Tiger
Force war crimes. Evidence was found to support the prosecution of at
least 18 members of the platoon.
In the end, however, a half dozen of the most compromised veterans
were allowed to resign from the Army, avoiding military indictment,
and in 1975 the Pentagon quietly buried the entire investigation. Some
committed suicide.
Skull Session
The people who've lost their heads going off to war.
By Tom Dunkel
Posted Friday, May 9, 1997, at 3:30 AM ET
I was expecting ... I don't know what. Maybe some old hatboxes labeled
"Confidential: Vietnam" languishing on a dusty shelf in a dusty
closet.
Instead, Paul Sledzik, an earnest young curator at the National Museum
of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., leads me into a large,
spotless storage room, unlocks File Cabinet 24, and slides out the top
drawer. There they are: six human skulls. Keepsakes from the war that
refuses to go away quietly. A cardboard divider, no different from
what's normally used to ship grapefruit, keeps the skulls from banging
together like marbles."
We boiled the flesh off enemy skulls"
"These two are my favorites," Sledzik says. "I kind of go back and
forth about which is the most interesting."
http://www.slate.com/id/2442/
"Japanese skulls were much-envied trophies among U.S. Marines in the
Pacific theater during World War II. The practice of collecting them
apparently began after the bloody conflict on Guadalcanal, when the
troops set up the skulls as ornaments or totems atop poles as a type
of warning. The Marines boiled the skulls and then used lye to remove
any residual flesh so they would be suitable as souvenirs. U.S.
sailors cleaned their trophy skulls by putting them in nets and
dragging them behind their vessels. Winfield Townley Scott wrote a
wartime poem, 'The U.S. Sailor with the Japanese Skull" that detailed
the entire technique
of preserving the headskull as a souvenir. In 1943 Life magazine
published the picture of a U.S. sailor's girlfriend contemplating a
Japanese skull sent to her as a gift - with a note written on the top
of the skull.
Referring to this practice, Edward L. Jones, a U.S. war correspondent
in the Pacific wrote in the February 1946 Atlantic Magazine, "We
boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for
sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter-openers." On occasion,
these "Japanese trophy skulls" have confused police when they have
turned up during murder investigations. It has been reported that when
the remains of Japanese soldiers were repatriated from the Mariana
Islands in 1984, sixty percent were missing their skulls."
Caveat from Kipling:
If...
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
How soon will we see Iraqi skulls for sale on E-Bay? Will all sizes be
available, including childrens' ?
Whole-page picture from the biggest American weekly LIFE Magazine.
This "Picture of the Week" shows a beautiful blonde, 20 year old
Natalie Nickerson from Phoenix,
Arizona. She sits by her desk with pen in hand, dreamingly
contemplating the skull of a killed Japanese that
was sent to her by her American Navy lieutenant boyfriend.
The text reads: "Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-
you note for the Jap skull he sent her.
That's what one would call getting "good head." Not from Natalie
though. That may have come later.
In 453: Attila the Hun suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death
on his wedding night. and it is rumored that his skull was filled with
wine and was drunk by friends and guests. Now that makes sense
When he said goodby two years ago to Natalie Nickerson, 20 a war
worker of Phoenix, Ariz., a big, handsome Navy lieutenant promised her
a Jap. Last week Natalie received a human skull, autographed by her
lieutenant and 13 friends, and inscribed: "This is a good Jap - a dead
one picked
up on the New Guinea beach." Natalie, surprised at the gift, named it
Tojo. The armed forces disapprove strongly of this sort of thing."
But, ah ****, just this once ain't no big deal."
- LIFE MAGAZINE, 5/22/44 p.35 "Picture of the Week"
SEE Skull picture:
http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english/toread/us-atrocities.htm
Cheers./.
What next? Testicles for hockey pucks or pool table balls? "Rack em
up."
Source: Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D., Death to Dust: What happens to Dead
Bodies?,
Galen Press, Ltd. Tucson, AZ. 1994. p.382.
RE. US soldiers playing soccer with the decapitated heads of Iraqi
soldiers.is not a strange or unique idea. American troops have used
the heads of enemies for centuries and for numerous interesting
purposes
In early America Indian male scalps over 10 years sold for $130 each
Indian female scalps no age specified $50 each
Indian live female or male child under age 10 years $130 each
Accusations that U.S. troops have killed civilians are commonplace in
Iraq, though most are judged later (naturally) to be unfounded or
exaggerated. Navy investigators announced last week that they were
looking into whether Marines intentionally killed 15 Iraqi civilians -
four of them women and five of them children - during fighting last
November
Maybe the troops don't know about earlier Indian scalping for a
bounty. If they find out about it, do you think they would start
scalping the Iraqis even if just for souvenirs. As long as the troops
are killing children, there is no point in not scalping them too. The
skulls make great paper clip holders for your desk.
Soldiers have brought home souvenirs of war for as long as there have
been battles to provide them. Archive footage of the 1942-5 Pacific
war was recently discovered showing US soldiers shooting wounded
Japanese and using bayonets to hack at the corpses while looting them.
Ex-servicemen told of the widespread practice of carrying off gold
teeth, ears and heads from dead - and sometimes still living -
Japanese soldiers. In the Vietnam war there were similar reports of
decapitation (and photographs of soldiers proudly holding the heads)
and of severed ears and fingers.
Such acts are illegal under international law. NO problem though.
Article 15 of the First Geneva Convention says that warring sides must
'search for the dead and prevent their being despoiled'. That's
Bullshit. In the prevailing brutality of war, it remains an
instruction hard to enforce American troops are always trying to get
"Head." We need a general Hooker.
The members of the Vietnam Tiger Force unit - all seasoned,
professional soldiers, rather than greenhorn recruits - quickly
degenerated into a demonic killing machine that tortured, murdered and
terrorized its way through the civilian population of the area,
blowing up bunkers in which women and children cowered, shooting
farmers at will and decorating the soldiers and their weapons with
ghoulish
trophies of war - the ears and scalps of their victims.
A former Tiger Force sergeant told reporters that he "killed so many
civilians he lost count." The Toledo Blade estimates that innocent
casualties were in the hundreds. Another veteran, a medic with the
unit, recalled 150 unarmed civilians murdered in a single month.
Superior officers, especially the Glanton-like battalion commander
Gerald Morse (or "Ghost Rider," as he fancied himself), sponsored the
carnage. Orders were given to "shoot everything that moves," and Morse
established a body- count quota of 327 (the numerical designation of
the battalion) that Tiger Force enthusiastically filled with dead
peasants and teenage girls.
Soldiers in other units who complained about these exterminations were
ignored or warned to keep silent, while Tiger Force slackers were
quickly transferred out. As with Glanton's gang, or, for that matter,
Einsatzgruppen, the Nazi mobile extermination squads in the western
Ukraine in 1941, atrocity created its own insatiable momentum.
Eventually, nothing was unthinkable in the Song Ve Valley.
"A 13-year-old girl's throat was slashed after she was sexually
assaulted, and a young mother was shot to death after soldiers torched
her hut. An unarmed teenager was shot in the back after a platoon
sergeant ordered the youth to leave a village, and a baby was
decapitated so that a soldier could remove a necklace."
Stories about the beheading of the baby spread so widely that the Army
was finally forced to conduct a secret inquiry in 1971. The
investigation lasted for almost five years and probed 30 alleged Tiger
Force war crimes. Evidence was found to support the prosecution of at
least 18 members of the platoon.
In the end, however, a half dozen of the most compromised veterans
were allowed to resign from the Army, avoiding military indictment,
and in 1975 the Pentagon quietly buried the entire investigation. Some
committed suicide.
Skull Session
The people who've lost their heads going off to war.
By Tom Dunkel
Posted Friday, May 9, 1997, at 3:30 AM ET
I was expecting ... I don't know what. Maybe some old hatboxes labeled
"Confidential: Vietnam" languishing on a dusty shelf in a dusty
closet.
Instead, Paul Sledzik, an earnest young curator at the National Museum
of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., leads me into a large,
spotless storage room, unlocks File Cabinet 24, and slides out the top
drawer. There they are: six human skulls. Keepsakes from the war that
refuses to go away quietly. A cardboard divider, no different from
what's normally used to ship grapefruit, keeps the skulls from banging
together like marbles."
We boiled the flesh off enemy skulls"
"These two are my favorites," Sledzik says. "I kind of go back and
forth about which is the most interesting."
http://www.slate.com/id/2442/
"Japanese skulls were much-envied trophies among U.S. Marines in the
Pacific theater during World War II. The practice of collecting them
apparently began after the bloody conflict on Guadalcanal, when the
troops set up the skulls as ornaments or totems atop poles as a type
of warning. The Marines boiled the skulls and then used lye to remove
any residual flesh so they would be suitable as souvenirs. U.S.
sailors cleaned their trophy skulls by putting them in nets and
dragging them behind their vessels. Winfield Townley Scott wrote a
wartime poem, 'The U.S. Sailor with the Japanese Skull" that detailed
the entire technique
of preserving the headskull as a souvenir. In 1943 Life magazine
published the picture of a U.S. sailor's girlfriend contemplating a
Japanese skull sent to her as a gift - with a note written on the top
of the skull.
Referring to this practice, Edward L. Jones, a U.S. war correspondent
in the Pacific wrote in the February 1946 Atlantic Magazine, "We
boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for
sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter-openers." On occasion,
these "Japanese trophy skulls" have confused police when they have
turned up during murder investigations. It has been reported that when
the remains of Japanese soldiers were repatriated from the Mariana
Islands in 1984, sixty percent were missing their skulls."
Caveat from Kipling:
If...
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
How soon will we see Iraqi skulls for sale on E-Bay? Will all sizes be
available, including childrens' ?
Whole-page picture from the biggest American weekly LIFE Magazine.
This "Picture of the Week" shows a beautiful blonde, 20 year old
Natalie Nickerson from Phoenix,
Arizona. She sits by her desk with pen in hand, dreamingly
contemplating the skull of a killed Japanese that
was sent to her by her American Navy lieutenant boyfriend.
The text reads: "Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-
you note for the Jap skull he sent her.
That's what one would call getting "good head." Not from Natalie
though. That may have come later.
In 453: Attila the Hun suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death
on his wedding night. and it is rumored that his skull was filled with
wine and was drunk by friends and guests. Now that makes sense
When he said goodby two years ago to Natalie Nickerson, 20 a war
worker of Phoenix, Ariz., a big, handsome Navy lieutenant promised her
a Jap. Last week Natalie received a human skull, autographed by her
lieutenant and 13 friends, and inscribed: "This is a good Jap - a dead
one picked
up on the New Guinea beach." Natalie, surprised at the gift, named it
Tojo. The armed forces disapprove strongly of this sort of thing."
But, ah ****, just this once ain't no big deal."
- LIFE MAGAZINE, 5/22/44 p.35 "Picture of the Week"
SEE Skull picture:
http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english/toread/us-atrocities.htm
Cheers./.
What next? Testicles for hockey pucks or pool table balls? "Rack em
up."
Source: Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D., Death to Dust: What happens to Dead
Bodies?,
Galen Press, Ltd. Tucson, AZ. 1994. p.382.
