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I spent two years in Indonesia as a marine and hate to hear over and over again how bad we were. I wonder what the reaction of those people would be if they would find their good friends cut up with their penis in their mouth. The marines were never ordered to burn kampongs or kill innocent people, that was a spontaneous natural reaction. Their have been more massacres than Rawagede that we never heard of. We were not that bad. I remember very well how we found Babat after the second politionele actie. For years they had been terrorized by their own people and starved to death. They did not have any clothing for years and we found dozens of people dead or dying on the street. The marines were able to capture a train loaded with rice from the peloppers that was stolen from those people. Within days the Red Cross came with truck loads of food and clothing.