Thomas902 wrote:
On this date Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai.
Members of Charlie Company later admitted that they had received no "hostile enemy fire from the village"
Yet when they finally withdrew they had murdered 504 unarmed civilians (predominately women, children and few fray aging old men). At least one document case of rape had also occurred.
Lest we ever forget these hideous crimes against humanity of the My Lai Massacre committed by the Armed Forces of the United States of America...
My son was 28 days old on March 16, 1968, many of the victims of the My Lai Massacre where indeed children.
How under the command of United States Army Lt. William Calley did this have to happen?
Why women and children?
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What a mess this entire war was for the US.