The most common and horrible form of dehumanization that occurred during the Vietnam war was the killing of totally innocent civilians. In Apocalypse Now, this was only showed in one scene but it was one of the most powerful scenes in the movie. In

the scene, the boat pulls up to a small fishing boat and asks them for their papers that say if they're authorized to be fishing. While one man is checking the boat, one of the women on the boat makes a sudden move and the soldiers kill everyone on the boat for no reason other then the woman making a sudden movement. The men didn't seem to even think about what they were doing. They acted on, what I believe to be, their fear of not knowing what the woman was going to do. The soldier who first started shooting simply said, "She jumped for you." You find out a little later that in actuality, the woman was going to get a small puppy out of a basket. I can understand that they aren't that comfortable with having to fear for their lives all the time; but after they kill five innocent people for no

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