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Article: MY LAI MASSACRE FACING THE HORROR.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 15, 2000
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``I do not profess to be a hero. I'm not a hero,'' Hugh C. Thompson Jr. contended Monday. To him, it's as simple as that.
But others think differently.
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Thompson, flying a Scout helicopter over a hamlet known as My Lai, noticed the bodies of Vietnamese civilians lying in a ditch. Then as he and his crew members watched in horror, more villagers were gunned down in cold blood.
Thompson ``kind of snapped - I was not thinking from then on out,'' he told officers and alumni at the Armed Forces Staff College on Hampton Boulevard.
``I saw Americans approaching an opening to a bunker where I could see an old ...