On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for -- search and ...

Of the 33,000 books about the Vietnam War ... about My Lai. In the words of Ron Ridenhour, the former helicopter door-gunner who did more than anyone to expose that particular massacre, it ...

Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson speaks with reporters at the Pentagon on Dec. 4, 1969, after testifying about the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam ... of the entire war, and perhaps unique ...

William Calley, who during the Vietnam War led his ... incident known in the West as the My Lai Massacre. The killings ...

Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more ... with one of the worst ...

The American reaction to hearing of the horror of the Son My massacre (My Lai) in Vietnam, and parallels with ... United States: war and terror—Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, Oliver ...

It was a platoon from this group that had been responsible for the massacre at My Lai nearly a year ... Well it means that in war — and probably any war, not just Vietnam — it’s a kind ...

Events like the My Lai Massacre were reported ... and money spent in Vietnam, they were not making progress against the Vietcong or communism. Key fact Many historians see the Tet Offensive ...

Many became victims of the increasingly brutal Vietnam War. If the average American ... Calley, who was on trial at Fort Benning for the My Lai massacre at the time, 1971 became an annus ...