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The Good Guys: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Gi Is Yell, Dung Li

Lieutenant Calley was on the ground when he saw a village surrounded by American soldiers. The villagers were unarmed and had not left for the market, just been having breakfast in their homes. This was not an enemy fortress as intelligence had warned them it would be. A radio operator who was there that day saidqote, once the first civilian was killed, it was too late,. period. Meli: 'The fear of what the gis had been told to expect slammed into the reality'

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