Vietnam War Mom talks about son being killed by another soldier

During a Vietnam War Veterans Day, a woman spoke about losing her son at the age of 19, but he didn't die in the usual way. Back then, it probably didn't even make the news. He was killed with three others others by one of their own.

There are so many lessons Vietnam taught us but we just never learned them.

Vietnam veterans honored decades after traumatic war

By NATALIE SHERMAN

March 26, 2012

"Things like this bring everything back," said Louise Pina, 87, of New Bedford, whose son Luiz Pina Jr. enlisted in 1964 and was killed Dec. 2, 1966, at the age of 19, when another man he was serving with "went berserk" and shot him and three other men.

NEW BEDFORD — Former Mayor Scott Lang called on the country to expedite troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, speaking Sunday at an event in honor of Vietnam War veterans about the parallels between the two conflicts.

"We are seeing history repeat itself," he said at the Vietnam War Veterans Day of Recognition in the Fort Taber museum. "The moment we ask as a nation, just as we did during the Vietnam War and what's happening right now, 'For what purpose are we there?' it's time to bring our troops home.

"The Vietnam War veterans can understand and explain this circumstance better than any other individuals in the United States."

Lang's speech Sunday afternoon was met by loud applause from the audience of more than 100, including at least 32 veterans of wars from World War II to Iraq.
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