ASA2
Blog #5
October 18, 2015
"Isn't killing just killing, regardless if it's in Vietnam or Jonesboro, Arkansas?"-Marilyn Manson
That very opening stuck with me throughout the entire time that I read Hamamoto's work. The given chapter discussed the unprecedented rise of mass murder and serial killings due to U.S. military rule during the time of war. Mentally disturbed by the war, many men involved in any aspect of the military came back distraught, feeling the urge to continue to kill. How do you teach a man how to kill for their country, and then expect them to return to normalcy afterwards? It just doesn't make any sense. Furthermore, no one could have predicted that these men would enjoy killing, raping, and sodomizing people of all genders, races, and ages. Hearing all these stories made me cringe and upset because these men had no mercy, not even for children. And yet, many of them got away with it because of their status as a veteran. It's even more despicable that so many victims are innocent Asians. The story about the fourteen year old Laotian American boy getting murdered and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer made me outraged, because he had a chance to live, and literally the policemen gave him back to Dahmer to get killed.
Question: How is it possible for these killers to dehumanize Asian lives in this way?
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