I Am A Soldier Of A Vietnam Soldier: Underestimate The Vietcong

My name is Paul Meadlo and I was entering my 20’s when I was a soldier fighting in the Vietnam War alongside Lieutenant William Calley. When I was first forced into the selective service system, or draft, I expected this war to end within a year or so. However, I now have come to realize that I greatly underestimated the Vietcong as they are much stronger and smarter than we were in the jungles of Vietnam. As the years of fighting went on, every encounter with the Vietcong and the stress knowing death could be around every corner has framed me into the person I am today. However, if there is one experience that is engrained within my memory, it would have to be massacre I helped commit at My Lai. It was 1968 and I was only 22 years old, my