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  American Experience | Vietnam Online | The My Lai Massacre | PBS
My Lai lay in the South Vietnamese district of Son My, a heavily mined area where the Vietcong were deeply entrenched.
As the gruesome details of My Lai reached the American public, serious questions arose concerning the conduct of American soldiers in Vietnam.
A military commission investigating the massacre found widespread failures of leadership, discipline, and morale among the Army's fighting units.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/my_lai.html   (566 words)

  
 My Lai Massacre (Morgana's Observatory)
The objective of the American military mission was clear: search and destroy the My Lai (pronounced, somewhat ironically, "me lie") hamlet of Son My village in the Quang Ngai Province of South Vietnam.
Reports on the My Lai operation stated that it was a stunning combat victory against a Viet Cong stronghold.
An initial investigation into My Lai was swift and definitive: My Lai was a combat operation in which twenty civilians had accidentally been killed.
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 ipedia.com: My Lai Massacre Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The My Lai massacre was a massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.
The My Lai massacre (pronounced "Me Lie") was a massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.
Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai story on November 12, 1969 and on November 20 The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) published explicit photographs of dead villagers killed at My Lai.
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 My Lai Massacre - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The My Lai massacre (pronounced [mi laɪ]) was a massacre by U.S. soldiers of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.
On the eve of the attack, Charlie Company was advised by military command that any genuine civilians at My Lai would have left their homes to go to market by 7 a.m.
Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, after extensive conversations with Ridenhour, broke the My Lai story on November 12, 1969, and on November 20 Time, Life and Newsweek magazines all covered the story, and CBS televised an interview with Paul Meadlo.
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 2006 January « It’s News to Me
My other amusement with it is that it seems to symbolize the futile hope that things will get easier as time goes on.
After coming across the dead bodies of Vietnamese civilians outside My Lai on March 16, 1968, Thompson set down their OH-23 and the three men began setting green gas markers by the prone bodies of the Vietnamese civilians who appeared to still be alive.
While flying away from the village, Andreotta spotted movement in an irrigation ditch, and the helicopter was again landed and a child was extracted from the bodies, and brought with the rest of the Vietnamese to the hospital at Quang Ngai.
perry.wordpress.com /2006/01   (3018 words)

  
 My Lai incident
The My Lai incident aroused widespread controversy and contributed to growing disillusionment in the United States with the Vietnam War.
Coming to terms with the past: My Lai: Kendrick Oliver revisits the scene of an infamous massacre that became a watershed in public......
Prosecuting the "fog of war?"(1) examining the legal implications of an alleged massacre of South Korean civilians by U.S. forces......
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