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Post: My Lai
Forum: Vietnam War
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Posted by: Manovar
Original Content:
The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of as many as 500 unarmed civilians, in which most of them were women, children, infants, and elderly people, in My Lai Village, South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by U.S army soldiers of “Charlie” Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division. The massacre was covered up until more than year later when a helicopter gunner revealed the event, leading to a special investigation into the event.
While 14 U.S. soldiers were initially charged with criminal offences in My Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted. Calley publicly apologized for the massacre nearly 40 years later, in a talk to Kiwanis Club in Columbus, near Fort Benning, where he was convicted.
The My Lai massacre became a turning point in Vietnam war. Morale of the remaining American troops in Vietnam after the “Vietnamization” strategy had taken placed, was low. Many of them were annoyed, frustrated and addicted to drugs as a result. The murder also stands as one of the darkest days in American’s military history, questioning the American way of war from military leadership, training to morale of soldiers in Vietnam.
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