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The Good Guys: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Meli Massacre

hugh thompson junior and his crew landed their observation helicopter, looking for a way stop the killings. They landed near the long drainage ditch, which at this point must have been filled with as many as 150 dead viitnomies,. women, children and old people. Thompson stepped off the chopper and stormed over to the first american soldier he could find. He gestured towards the ditch full of dead civilians and angrily asked the g is to start giving a to the wounded.

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