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Essay Archive - My Lai 4: A Book Report
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 ....
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