My Lai 4: A Book Report
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."
Orders were followed, and as I read the first 65 pages of this book,
I was exposed to the detailed death of 306 civilians, mostly women, small
children, and old people. There was no threat to any American GIs ...
there were no Viet Cong Solders in the area. I read of the rape of ....
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