Originally Posted by Intact4Now
"We had a whole squad that was brought in one day. They had been hung up by their ankles. Their genitals had been cut off and stuffed in their mouth."

The quote's source is Christine L. Kane's "Inside the Death Factory: Women of Vietnam", an article in the Boston Review
(http://bostonreview.net/BR06.3/kane.html).

Wow. I know that better body armor has allowed more to "survive" their injuries. Loosing your genitals to an IED is bad enough, but to be hung by your ankles knowing your balls and schlong were about to be cut off and watching as they are shoved in your mouth has to be the ultimate "war wound". The VC were vicious in what they did to prisoners, but there are incidents where US troops did ******** their prisoners. I guess this is what is meant by "all is fair in love and war".