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Article: 1968 the my Lai massacre: forty years ago, in one of the lowest points of the Vietnam War, U.S. troops killed hundreds of unarmed civilians and the Army tried to cover it up.(TIMES PAST)
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- New York Times Upfront
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- February 25, 2008
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It happened at the height of the Vietnam War came to symbolize all that went wrong for America in that conflict. On March 16, 1968, in a village known as My Lai, American soldiers killed more than 400 unarmed Vietnamese civilians, among them children the elderly, many of whom were rounded up, pushed into ditches or herded together, and shot.
The officer in charge later claimed that the villagers were enemy Communist guerrillas, but other witnesses painted a much more troubling picture, and what became known as the My Lai (MEE-LIE) massacre sparked widespread outrage when it was exposed more than a year later--mainly clue to of an American soldier not involved in ...
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