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Lexington Herald Leader
March 26, 2018
He does well to remind us that we do not preserve or teach our own history well, even very recent history. It is appalling that many of today's students are unaware of the My Lai massacre, or indeed of any particular events of the misguided Vietnam War. Let us deliberately recall what happened on March 16,Ãâà...
The Hankyoreh
March 23, 2018
[Column] Time has come for South Korea to formally apologize for Vietnam War atrocities ... A mosaic portrays a 1966 massacre at Binh Hoa Village in Binh Dinh Province by South Korean troops during the Vietnam War. ... The sites of the massacres were mainly air-raid shelters and the yards of houses.
The Nation.
March 19, 2018
It would have been an explicit, punishable war crime to state in a directive or in an official briefing to the commanders of Task Force Barker that they were ... Only two days after the My Lai massacre, a South Vietnamese government field worker reported from Son My village that 427 people had been killed inÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 18, 2018
Max Hastings called it “the most notorious war crime of the Vietnam era.” How well have we learned its lessons? In 1970, the Pentagon launched a top-secret investigation (it was declassified in 1994) into numerous allegations of atrocities in Vietnam and concluded that more than 300 massacres hadÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 17, 2018
The killings on March 16, 1968 that left 504 villagers dead — mostly unarmed women, children and older men in one of the Vietnam War's worst atrocities — were later uncovered by US investigative reporter Seymour Hersh and polarised public opinion and energised a mounting anti-war movement in theÃâà...
History
March 16, 2018
The massacre stands among the most infamous of wartime atrocities committed by any U.S. military force. When news of the massacre finally hit newsstands more than a year and a half after it had occurred, it swiftly became emblematic of the U.S. war effort in Vietnam. Especially in the eyes of the war'sÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 15, 2018
The My Lai massacre was one of the worst atrocities of the Vietnam War. Ten years ago, Al Jazeera's Josh Rushing, a former marine himself, visited My Lai as US veteran Ken Schiel returned to the site of the massacre for the first time to meet survivors and set the record straight. Rushing spoke with AlÃâà...
People's World
March 12, 2018
The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of unarmed citizens of the South Vietnam, mostly civilians and majority of them women and children, conducted by U.S. ... The massacre and other atrocities revealed during the trial divided the U.S. public and contributed to growing disillusionment with the war.
Lexington Herald Leader
March 9, 2018
When I ask a class of college students how many have heard of My Lai, only a few if any raise their hands, tentatively. Even they are unsure what it was, or where, or when, or who was involved. Why have we forgotten to teach about the nadir of the Vietnam War? Is our collective amnesia accidental or willfulÃâà...
The Commercial Appeal
March 9, 2018
The only person convicted for the atrocities of that day was 25-year-old, 5-foot-3, 109 pound, 2d. Lt. William ... Sadly, other similar atrocities occurred on other days that were kept hidden. ... J. Houston Gordon, a trial attorney in Covington, Tenn., is writing a book on the My Lai Massacre and the Vietnam War.
The Hankyoreh
March 5, 2018
In May 1999, the Hankyoreh 21 published a shocking report. Titled “South Korea's Terrifying Troops,” the magazine reported that South Korean forces during the Vietnam War had perpetrated mass sexual assaults and massacres against civilians in various regions south of the southern front in Oct. 1969.
NewsAhead Agency
March 4, 2018
Fifty years ago a company of United States soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians – women, children and old men – in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam. The most infamous incident of the Vietnam War went relatively unpunished, and it might have been only one of many similar atrocities.
SFGate
February 27, 2018
A tautly powerful exploration of atrocity, guilt and heroism, “My Lai” focuses not on the familiar villain of the Vietnam War massacre, Lt. William Calley, but on a less well-known hero: Hugh Thompson Jr., an American helicopter pilot who witnessed the event and tried valiantly to stop the carnage. With a terseÃâà...
Berkeley Daily Planet
December 31, 1999
The war continued for another seven years claiming the lives of a staggering 3.8 million Vietnamese 800,000 Cambodians and 1 million Laotians. John Kerry and other Vietnam Veterans Against the war discussed the atrocities unearthed in the Winter Soldier investigation, where over 150 veterans testifiedÃâà...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 31, 1999
Award-winning country music songwriter Dave Gibson, left, and fellow songwriter and business partner Carl Conge of Walworth, have released a music video tribute to Vietnam veterans. Conge served in the Army in various assignments for nearly 30 years. (Photo: PROVIDED)Ãâà...
