Hugh Thompson Junior and the Meli Massacre

The meli massacre happened in the spring of 19 68, but the american public didn't hear about it until 18 months later. Hugh thompson filed countless complaints and testified to the war crimes he saw with his own eyes. The army ignored him, marginalized him and actively tried to discredit him. Only by chance did ran ridenhauer, the young whistle blower from the beginning of our story, find out about it. It took dozens of people, soldiers, journalists, witnesses and activists, to bring this thing to light. Without their moral outrage and rejection of self preservation, the army would have kept this incident in a file cabinet in the bowels of the penagon.