What Happened and Why
March 16th, 1968 was a gruesome day for My Lai, a small hamlet in Vietnam. A platoon of American soldiers were told that the citizens of My Lai were Viet Cong supporters and should be dealt with accordingly. With this information the soldiers tormented, violated, and then brutally murdered an estimated 500 innocent Vietnamese villagers. Men, but mainly women, children, and the elderly were all victims of these brutal soldiers. They only stopped the mass-murder when their lives were threatened by an American chopper pilot who landed his helicopter in between the Vietnamese and the Americans guns.
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