3,500 Marines arrived to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang. Ten years later over 55,000 Americans would be dead. Estimates of Vietnamese killed ranged between 1,5 million and 3 million. Protests over the war would steadily grow. With a public outraged over such atrocities as the My Lai Massacre, which at the time was seen as outrageous, but not the rule. A recent book by Nick Turse, titled, ‘Kill everything that moves’ shows that reality was way worse and that there were many My Lai’s, My Lay just happened to be one of the few atrocities to get a lot of media coverage.

About 60 years later we are talking about America bombing Iranian school girls, like in Minab.