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12-31-2009, 07:42 AM
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My Lai Massacre: US Troops Kill 347 to 504 Vietnamese Civilians, March 16, 1968
The My Lai Massacre took place on the morning of March 16, 1968, when soldiers of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry, Americal Division, killed unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, men, women, children and infants, in the hamlets of Son My village in Quang Ngai Province. The US Army's official count was 347 dead, which covers only the My Lai 4 hamlet; the Vietnamese memorial at Son My lists 504 names, ages one to 82, covering the killings at My Khe the same morning as well, and no definitive toll exists. Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. and his crew landed between the soldiers and fleeing civilians and evacuated more than a dozen people. The massacre stayed hidden until November 1969, when Seymour Hersh broke the story and Army photographer Ronald Haeberle's color photographs ran in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and LIFE. Of the roughly two dozen men charged, only Lt. William Calley was convicted; sentenced to life for 22 murders, he served about three and a half years, most of it under house arrest. Widely circulated My Lai photos are often miscaptioned, and people shown in some famous frames survived.  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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12-31-2009, 07:45 AM
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Re: My Lai Massacre: US Troops Kill 347 to 504 Vietnamese Civilians, March 16, 1968
Great posts...Vietnam War related-post are always appreciated by me  |
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12-31-2009, 07:51 AM
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Re: My Lai Massacre: US Troops Kill 347 to 504 Vietnamese Civilians, March 16, 1968
I 'like' pictures 2 & 5. You wonder what is going through that poor woman's mind? |
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12-31-2009, 07:56 AM
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Re: My Lai Massacre: US Troops Kill 347 to 504 Vietnamese Civilians, March 16, 1968
The fifth woman was thinking "oh shit this is really happeding I'm gunna...." Nice post and info sada. |
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12-31-2009, 07:59 AM
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Re: My Lai Massacre: US Troops Kill 347 to 504 Vietnamese Civilians, March 16, 1968
Last pic, gun to her head, I feel sorry for her.
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12-31-2009, 08:35 AM
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Re: My Lai Massacre: US Troops Kill 347 to 504 Vietnamese Civilians, March 16, 1968
me sucky sucky me ruv you ronn tye |
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12-31-2009, 05:07 PM
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Re: My Lai Massacre: US Troops Kill 347 to 504 Vietnamese Civilians, March 16, 1968
this was not our finest moment, it discraces the troops who are trying to make the world a little more deacent.
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12-31-2009, 05:10 PM
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Re: My Lai Massacre: US Troops Kill 347 to 504 Vietnamese Civilians, March 16, 1968
A Bullet in about 4 seconds
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01-01-2010, 12:28 AM
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Re: My Lai Massacre: US Troops Kill 347 to 504 Vietnamese Civilians, March 16, 1968
One of the reasons I'm always happy to 'pick up' US backpackers.
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