My Lai 4: A Book Report
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On March 16, 1968, "Charlie Company" was sent into a small Viet
Cong village called (by the U.S.) My Lai 4. Their instructions by
commanding officers were: "... kill every man, woman, child and animal in
the village. Burn all the homes .... nothing should be walking, growing
or crawling."
Or ....
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.... mothers' bodies, only to be
shot as target practice by the GIs. It is later estimated that
approximately 500 civilians were murdered, and (probably) no VC were in
the area.
I could go into detail about the killing. However, most of the book
was devoted to the time before the massacre, and afterward. The officers
and GIs of "Charlie Company" were introduced in the beginning of the book:
the officers had been social outcasts all their life (LT. Calley & Medina).
Both had decided to devote ....
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