Captain Ernest Medina had told his men that all Vietnamese remaining in My Lai after their arrival would be Viet Cong members or sympathizers. Following the massacre, during which between 347 and ...

They awarded him the Soldier's Medal for “heroism not involving actual conflict with an enemy.” On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people ...

William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed ...

American soldiers killed 504 people on March 16 ... in an incident known in the West as the My Lai Massacre. The killings ...

Native advocate O.J. Semans Sr. calls on President Biden to revoke the Medals of Honor awarded to U.S. soldiers who ...

The My Lai massacre, known as the Son My massacre in ... at a time when the US army was desperate for soldiers. On the morning of 16 March 1968, Calley’s unit was airlifted to a hamlet in ...

Only in the last few days has it been brought home to people that the massacre at Son My is not an isolated incident ... the young men who might turn into soldiers. Nobody who has seen the huge ...

Events like the My Lai Massacre were reported in the US press leading many ordinary Americans to question the war. Film footage of US soldiers burning homes and of the effects of napalm all turned ...

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 ...