I didn't feel that he literally massacred them. Mr. Kerrey had a job to do. He was told what to do and that's it. If I had been in the war, God knows what I would have done. There are some good people that do terrible things.
War is awful.
People are firing at you, you have to fire back. A lot of the Vietnamese were Viet Cong sympathetic, and women and children were even booby-trapped. This happening at night. You're fired upon, you fire back. When light comes, then you see the results.