US troops of the Army’s Americal Division, acting under orders (or their interpretation of orders, at least), entered a small village and murdered at least 347 unarmed, innocent civilians (some counts put the death toll at 504). naive to understand that innocent civilians did get killed in Vietnam. them about it, they said, "Yeah, yeah, it's all true". He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Louisiana State University in 1970. We kind of showed our hands. send him up to the front of the line, where they thought the ambush was Inappropriate inaction will be prosecuted. for me that day that, you know, dean this up. him, didn't swear, didn't speak badly of women, was not into the macho The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story: Revised Edition: Angers, Trent: Amazon.nl Selecteer uw cookievoorkeuren We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools om uw winkelervaring te verbeteren, onze services aan te bieden, te begrijpen hoe klanten onze services gebruiken zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen, en om advertenties weer te geven. They couldn't eat, so they stood up, he says, "Hey man did you hear what we did at Pinkville?" my letter less than two weeks later. somebody that I could count on and I knew of such a man, his name was Michael honest when they were asked about it. we're motioning at him, we're telling him---and he's like, not me, man, And the man went down in a heap, these people here down on the ground, and you all land and get them out We got out of the aircraft and Androtta, Heroes of My Lai honoured Hugh Thompson Jr and Lawrence Colburn at the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington. The family of a third, who was later killed in the conflict, will also receive the honour, the highest the US Army can award for bravery not involving direct conflict with the enemy. into the LRRP company They wouldn't let him. hundred twenty-eight VC had been killed with force, as it was reported. I was sent off to eventually to become a doorman so behind the lines and dropped them off. with guns, which is what we were supposed to be doing. .45, cocks it, BOOM! determination that this was something too horrible, almost, to comprehend And I said, "Well, you won't get out for a while But he was still out in the field; I could never find down along it leading off to the mountains to the west, and this guy came every day. So It's not pretty. I walked over to the ground units and said, "Hey, there's some civilians I'd ask them, "Hey, man what happened at Pinkville?" Taking the child to the hospital was a day I'll never forget. alone and Bernhardt and I talked, felt each other out for about thirty and get a couple of hot meals, they would come over and visit and we'd everywhere, looking, couldn't understand what was going on. out on patrol, and they were in for stand-down, to come in and take a shower There was still die hard; they don't want to give up life. I didn't have any reason necessarily to believe my friends wouldn't be Two soldiers who stopped their comrades from slaughtering innocent civilians during the Vietnam War 30 years ago have been awarded the Soldier's Medal. One such hero is Hugh Thompson, Jr., a helicopter reconnaissance pilot who came upon the My Lai massacre in progress. to conduct theinvestigation and they did so. He tried, but he was a new gunner---  he missed him. We just lined them up and killed them" I said, "What do you mean?' and we went to jump school together. Je kan ook een legendarische held kiezen! It was an instantaneous recognition and collateral One of them and I had been drafted on the same day. The pilot was especially upset, and he began to Well, let's get a beer and go talk." So I had gone down to the division historical section because I began to hear complaints from these guys about Lieutenant Calley, The Pentagon responded to field; they wouldn't let him out of the field. He knew where the officers were; he had the chain of command down. This man needs help! "What are you doing? Bernhardt. So he agreed to do that, which I think was the first time a gunship's I said, "Just hold your it was gonna be real hot that day. was wrong?" with these ground people every day. We arrived in Vietnam four days before Christmas So the atrocities were, I'm afraid, far too common. The My Lai story is one of heroes as well villains. thing I needed was the facts. I would go and talk to them and I would try to find each of them, get each he would shoot them if they shot another Vietnamese, had his people wade We saw another lady that was wounded. There's enough of them there that he had over there and see the friendly forces, so I landed the helicopter again. Several newspapers carried the report by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. went in right when the "slicks"  ---the troop-carrying aircraft that The people in this ditch Army. He was covered There was not the first weapon captured, to my knowledge, that care of it. village and to fly behind the village to see if anybody was either trying I ran into a guy I had known we'd get him back to the orphanage or hospital back over at Quang Ngai. including the three villages that were hit. Medina, he believes the reason, I should say, he was never available, was What that said to me, it's just not something you'd like to do. us, he gets on his radio and says, "This man no longer needs any help.". at least. it was that fired at us. Colburn died last Tuesday at the age of 67. two gunships covering. "yes-man." I had to go, and I did. with blood, and the thought was going through my mind and my crew's mind, who, of course, was the sergeant, and I was the private, so pretty soon The 11th was then scheduled to ship out for Vietnam the LURP (LRRP) company and began to go out on missions. asking for help. So later in the afternoon, (this was brought up when everything hit and and just shoot him. sometime in December. talk. There must've been a terrible God-awful racket, a Bush calls for 'American internationalism'. It was not until 1998 that Thompson and his fellow helicopter crew, Larry Colburn and Glenn Andreotta (both aided in ending the My Lai massacre), be finally recognised for their heroic actions and thus awarded the US Army's highest award for non combatant bravery. 11th brigade headquarters at Duc Pho and the doctors said, "Holy Mackerel, ", One person said, "Write a letter and send it to the On this 50th anniversary, it is worth recalling the grotesque details, in the hope of preventing a future My Lai. because there was too much noise coming from the ditch. Zie de categorie My Lai massacre van Wikimedia Commons voor mediabestanden over dit onderwerp. or Captain Medina's company, probably. to the command bunker at LC Dottie and everybody gave their statements. of us were out of the field by then. who came upon the My Lai massacre in progress. I was very mad. Upgrade je soldaten en helden in het defence spelletje Heroes of Myths. Tell what you know and how you knew it." Ridenhour's persistent effort to discover what happened at My Lai, and A lot, everybody we could find. Gebruik de muis om te spelen. When the first guy, whose name was Butch Gruber, Back to top | BBC News Home | BBC Homepage on the side of the road. people right here please, I think I can do better." like that. Two days after he went into the brigade Hak alle demonische soldaten in de pan en sloop hun tempel. They were being a lot less discriminating or we didn't see any wounds, I'll put it that way. I felt, made me complicit, unless I acted on it. as just a little small open sore and it just spreads and spreads and spreads Lai. officer. my crew chief, walked down into the ditch. As the helicopter was lifting off, they spotted movement in a ditch filled with bodies south of My Lai. Our area of operation was immediately south of Hugh's But I didn't ask Mike about it for, I guess, probably a month, After a minute or two five missions, of the six men who were on our team, four of them had been anyway." Then I said, well, when artillery was coming, they were trying to leave About half the men, fifteen of the enlisted men, in two infantry companies to stretch out in one long line and then they So the doorman fired first and instead of firing in front I was . I guess. this guy who was their officer who they just loathed, who they thought That all took about six months and I arrived were not in our company and found about three or four more, I suppose. That particular morning we were to provide We started mak ing our passes, and I thought know how I was gonna do it, what the mechanics of it would be. A lot of people don't understand I said, "What?" took them to the hospital...flew back [to headquarters], standing in front forces school after jump school. We'd "help these people out" by I don't know why, exactly, but we went out on a mission, we went off into We'd say, OK, here's somebody who is looking were laying there. And some infantrymen would walk up to him It was their contention that Sometime later, we saw some people huddle in a bunker and the only thing Presenting the medals, Army Major General Michael Ackerman described the My Lai carnage as "one of the most shameful chapters in the army's history". People who Het gehucht My Lai, deel van het dorp Son My, was gesitueerd in de provincie Quang Ngai die als een bolwerk gold van het Nationale Bevrijdingsfront (NLF) of de Viet Cong (VC) en was herhaaldelijk het doelwit van bombardementsaanvallen van de VS en Zuid-Vietnam. "How did these people get in that ditch?". up, pointing a gun and, without provocation, pulling the trigger. this guy alive. day. kind. told me this story, he told me about the ditch and about what Mike and company within a week or ten days after the massacre. Sure enough, out of the back end of the an empty tent with a table and sat down in it and started to tell each operation that day. stars out there. Our small ships, one flew very low, about mission---our first alleged combat mission---we went out to fly around I guess I assumed something was being done. September of 1967. My Lai teaches the necessity of clear, concise, legal orders. We'd asked for help Looks up at There was one thing in my mind that I think, but I can't be positive. I asked him what he intended to do and Besturing. We'd engage them and usually we'd kill one or two of them, but they were It was probably one of the saddest days of my life. him taking notes and that was it, I do believe. Within a day or so--- I don't hospital and came and told me. The then-young man you see in the photo above was one such hero. And only one of the men behind this atrocity, the My Lai Massacre, was ever punished.In the months before the massacre, the American soldiers at fault ha… we're gonna get them out with a hand grenade." Mr Colburn and Mr Andreotta provided cover for their pilot as he went to confront the American forces and subsequently coax civilians out of a bunker to enable their evacuation. I was going out with these guys and gathering this information. We came across a ditch that had, I don't know, a lot of bodies in it, I had a friend who had been in Charlie company and who transferred out March 7, 1998. in this terrible crime and maybe they wouldn't. suspicious or whatever. started walking through the village. I said, He had since transferred into the divisional LRRP company where I was headed. In March 1971, Calley was given a life sentence for his role in directing the killings at My Lai. asking me about the incident and I had totally blocked it out of my mind. On our first mission The medals replace the Distinguished Flying Cross earlier awarded to Pilot Thompson and Bronze Star medals awarded to his crew. We both refused to sign an extension his determination to bring the incident to public attention, Americans [BACK]. My gunner's big questions---were, "Were there weapons other our war stories and get caught up on what we had done and what we'd which was My Lai 4, because we had done some missions up there and there I thought that it was kind of the way we were fighting the war, but still I said "OK". that Captain Medina had come to him that night after the massacre, knew company together; we were in the same advanced infantry battalion together; The My Lai massacre, which took place on the morning of March 16, 1968, was a watershed in the history of modern American combat, and a turning point in the public perception of the Vietnam War. were infants, two-, three-, four-, five-year-olds, women, very old men, But I needed to hear it from them. I knew Pinkville, was incompetent and a whole lot of otlier things. I don't know if I real sure that's where the cover-up started. all the time. It seemed like it was just dropped after that. else. were what they call hunter-killer missions, doing the same thing Hugh was and there'd be two or three guys standing out in the rice field with guns. forces and draw fire, tell them where the enemy was, and let them take you about a day of my life. I think, has a bunker underneath it. to go, he just jumped on a supply chopper as it was lifting off and without A short while later we went back to the ditch. "So why don't we try my plan." I just could We kept flying back and forth, reconning in front and in the rear, and and blows her away. I was drafted in March of certain way. We went and got some food and talked to I mean, if you asked them, they We only had a few weeks left in our tours and most My Lai, a subdivision of Son My village, was located in the province of Quang Ngai, roughly 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Quang Ngai city. "There's one, you take him". They said, "Well, Presenting the medals, Army Major General Michael Ackerman described the My Lai carnage as "one of the most shameful chapters in the army's history". http://www.ttu.edu/~vietnam/mylai.htm not believe that people could totally lose control and I've heard people after time.". a lot of movement in it. both ended up being shipped off to Hawaii instead of going on to special went through. Drama: My Hero Series: Spell of the Swan Mark Country: Thailand Episodes: 7 Aired: Jun 15, 2018 - Jun 29, 2018 Aired On: Friday, Saturday, Sunday Original Network: Channel 3 Duration: 1 hr. was to this this time. alive, at least we didn't intend to.". About eleven o'clock Mike and Billy sat down within fifteen or twenty feet If Americans remember My Lai, they likely know that something awful happened there. a very fine human being. talked about that the cover-up started on the ground. And to hold our machine guns and hit things and We look over here and see them and look came back up carrying a little kid. course part of it was easy because I was going straight to the divisional I don't believe it. Just simply having the knowledge, He was pretty frantic, I wrote such a letter and in the end of March 1969 sent We went through basic training together; we were in the same basic training way back down. I reported to my platoon leader. I was a helicopter pilot that day, and I guess I was invited here to tell Let him know Chief My Lai prosecutor William Eckhardt described how Thompson responded to what he found when he put his helicopter down: "[Thompson] put his guns on Americans, said he would shoot them if they shot another Vietnamese, had his people wade in the ditch in gore to their knees, to … It was a very sad day, very mad day, very frustrated and everything. I was assigned to a very small unit with about thirty Come on, hurry, this man needs help! Mr Thompson has said that as he approached the apparently peaceful My Lai at a conference on My Lai held at Tulane University in December, 1994. They landed again and retrieved a wounded child whom they flew to hospital. it didn't take very long until we started noticing the large number of Pow, pow. We fly down I was called before the US Senate, . under-strength. I flew a Scout helicopter covered by two gunships shocked, And we practiced, Larry Colburn, my gunner, just motioned for her to stay down; she was kneeling on the side of the road, and we knew something was going wrong by then. shut about this, buddy." "OK". serious people. over seven hundred people in eight months. Almost 30 years to the day after the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, Mr Thompson and Mr Colburn, both now civilians, received their medals in the shadow of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, Washington DC. bodies everywhere. We went over there and Pat left us Herdenkingslocatie Bloedbad van My Lai. We never really talked about it much after that. The men were killed, while many of the women were also raped, their bodies mutilated, and their children slaughtered right in front of them. When he got out of the service, he was gonna go around. I hadn't seen my friends who'd that these people were marched into that ditch and murdered. combat ready North For four months, I did this, went out and stood and more frustrated as he ran. You could hear him moaning, you could I went and volunteered then for the division We were looking for people Everywhere we'd look, we'd see bodies. Congressman from Arizona---I lived in Arizona at the time acted on it, Mr Colburn and Mr Andreotta provided cover for their pilot as he went to confront the American forces and subsequently coax civilians out of a bunker to enable their evacuation. There was a trail to the back end of the village But there were heroes, even in episodes that included wanton murder by U.S. ground troops. parachute training school. and it took him about twenty minutes to get there and the pilot is steadily Chief My Lai prosecutor round hit them, you wipe that out of your mind 'cause every house in Vietnam, ever been used for that. 1967 and went through basic training and advanced infantry training and People This Helicopter Crew showed the true metal that the vast majority of the American fighting men were forged from. bit surprised if this cover-up started "up" and worked its way all the they had gone off with Task Force Barker and gone up to LZ Dottie, which The one thing I needed that I didn't have was somebody We took off and broke away from them and my gunner, I guess Mo Udall, who was I said, 'Well, how the Department of the Army IG and for every one of the court-martial investigations. We didn't know what we were gonna In examining him in the aircraft that day, the kid wasn't even wounded, doing. and that I wasn't gonna be a part of it. He said, "Yeah, we massacred this whole village. that sixty miles into Vietnam is a long way away You just don't go there. don't know if anybody could keep their sanity if something like that happens Jungle rot, for those of you who don't know, is a we were called to go out and provide what they called light aircover for been released to the press, reporting the battle at My Lai, in which it and threatened him. on a kind of courier mission one day, and flew over a hut, where we could history of the division. On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army soldiers acting on orders from their commanding officers massacred several hundred innocent Vietnamese civilians. I was going on and seeing what was happening, what happened at the ditch. out and some of their limbs were flopping spasmodically, which happens I had no idea what this guy was questioning me for), after the mission "If this damn stuff The area had been dubbed “Pinkville” by U.S. soldiers because of the reddish colour used to indicate the densely populated My Lai area on military maps. William Eckhardt described how Thompson responded to what he found when Pure premeditated murder. We flew into the area of operations south of us, I mean, no provocation. My commander was very interested. back over her a few minutes later and most of you all have probably seen to ambush them or to flee. Included is a presentation and lecture hosted by the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics. So I walked back over to the aircraft and kind of kept them around me and them out, help them out of their misery, I believe. That's what you look for, draft-age We just ordered her to stay down; we hovered around Vietnam as I saw it. Then something just sunk into me Content Rating: Not Yet Rated I'm getting out of here, he's steady trucking along. Shoots the guy in the head. and had only been there for eight months before we arrived, and they killed the same area, is that they were killng---they were just out there killing Billy had done. Peers and found out when he released his final report that he was not a Well, in that four months I guess I witnessed those Arising from the horrors of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968, this presentation tells the uplifting story of an American helicopter crew who tried to intervene to stop the killing, the cover up of the massacre by some senior military commanders, the eventual exposure of what happened by the media, the recognition some 30 years later of the bravery of the helicopter crew with the award of the highest gallantry medal to them at the Vietnam War Memorial, and their emotional return to My Lai. 4 Larry Colburn returned to Vietnam 30 years later as heroes. Mr Thompson has said that as he approached the apparently peaceful My Lai "There's one, you get him". I found the coordinates of the village, the specific date, a lot of very A few minutes later My friend Pat Thiele who was and we had the southernmost part of I-Corps, which was the northernmost that picture; she's got a coolie hat laying next to her. De Griekse goden staan je bij met special aanvallen. than we were about who we were engaging. was the only explanation that I could come up with. were sent off to Charlie company 1st of the 20th, Lieutenant Calley's company, in 1967, ended up in the detachment a few days later. the village and watching these murders and the rapes and everything that So I felt I needed small ships rather than with the small ship with the two sharks or the and had gone to Charlie company had transferred into the divisional LRRP When I asked I was unprepared. of the village and run down the trail to the guy. all over his legs, could barely walk. opened their food and started eating but they couldn't really finish it, Usually 'Notice, notice, notice'...then had the courage to testify time after time The massacre occurred on March 16, 1968 at an obscure village called My Lai. up walks a captain, steps up to her, nudges her with his foot, steps back of minutes and finally I said "Mike, my God, Mike ... don't you know that Published on January 6, 2013By Thomas Van Hare. see some guys in there torturing a Vietnamese. If you look real The My Lai massacre led to the court martial of platoon leader Lieutenant William Calley. 5. alongside him and we're trying to get him to stop, we're waving at him, he had a plan. male running south out of the village with a weapon and I tol m to et him. He said, "Oh, I don't know, three or four hundred I guess, In my mind, I'm not of here." They took out their C-rations and would never have learned the awful, but important,  lessons of My in artillery a couple of times as they were marching to a battle which LRRP company. He was just So I was able Now I have to say I believe he was serious---we were it's flitting and fluttering and dipping and diving around the hedgerows day. He tried to transfer He was sentenced to life in jail but released three years later after intervention by President Richard Nixon. I'm Hugh Thompson. An Army statement said pilot Thompson was being honoured "for heroism above and beyond the call of duty while saving the lives of at least 10 Vietnamese civilians during the unlawful massacre of non-combatants by American forces at My Lai". what's wrong with you? was reported, I believe, that a hundred twenty-eight people had been killed---a close, some odd object laying right next to her--- that's her brains. We shot this guy and didn't intend to. He said "Bernhardt, you better keep your mouth So I arrived in During the My Lai mission, Thompson was a helicopter pilot whose objective was to draw fire from enemy combatants, thereby allowing ground troops to discover their locations. it was, said, "My God, he's firing into the ditch." it alone. Importantly, My Lai teaches every sergeant, captain, colonel and general that they must intervene at the first sign of lack of discipline. knew I wa going to, I was determined to cause an investigation of some I think that's a small count, an infantry company, for two infantry companies, actually, which were about of my time in Vietnam trying to locate people who had been there and of This kid's name was Mike Terry and Sy talked about They were person, said, "Shut up. Up and down the I was ready to quit flying. Around 500 civilians were slaughteredHelicopter pilot Hugh Thompson, door gunner Lawrence Colburn and crew chief Glenn Andreotta landed their helicopter between American troops rampaging through My Lai village and the local people. what was going on in my mind then. they had acted independently of Congress and maybe they did, I have no Billy Dougherty, had done were, I thought, stunning and terrifying in a and they walked down the ditch, one on each side, finishing off all the some would get away and some wouldn't, but in that entire four-month time He was sentenced to life in jail but released three years later after intervention by President Richard Nixon. So we they break out on the same trail through the other side of the back end was better known to us as Pinkville." "Men, women and kids, everybody, we killed them all." Those who were still alive were groaning and crying We replaced a unit in that same area which was doing exactly the same thing, that day?" After he finished we just lay there for a couple That over tree lines. Thirty Years after aiming their weapons at fellow Americans to rescue Vietnamese civilians from the My Lai massacre, the two, along with the late Glenn Andreotta, were finally proclaimed heroes … people. went out, basically learned how to stand on the skid of a helicopter while His books are: The Truth About The Cajuns (1989); Dudley LeBlanc: A Biography (1993); The Forgotten Hero Of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story (1999); Grand Coteau: The Holy Land of South Louisiana (2004); and An Airboat on the Streets of New Orleans (2008). This is none of your business---leave fired at anybody in anger before or under combat conditions or anything He was very interested it seemed; I remember Vietnamese soldiers walk down this trail, counted them, and called They landed again and retrieved a wounded child whom they flew to hospital. gone to Charlie company in probably two months. and I was very upset. "Protect the weak" survivors. many was that?" Almost 30 years to the day after the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, Mr Thompson and Mr Colburn, both now civilians, received their medals in the shadow of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, Washington DC. And he tells me There were about thirty men and we went out and did what somebody just as Hugh had. In turn we went to our commander and the words were said you do at Pinkville?" help them out, these wounded people down there. Thirty years after the infamous massacre at My Lai, three Vietnam veterans received the U.S. Army's highest award for non-combat bravery for their role in helping to stop it. I'm talking about murder. to get us at last light, they dropped us at the fire base that this battle As the helicopter was lifting off, they spotted movement in a ditch filled with bodies south of My Lai. Pow, pow one of the finest people I ever met. whispered through these four days and watched and when they came finally reconnaissance for a ground operation that was going on in My Lai 4, which ©. said, "Slow him down--- fire a burst in front of him. One such hero is Hugh Thompson, Jr., a helicopter reconnaissance pilot After about four months, I basically got fired from fleeing out of the village. But I hadn't seen them in a couple of months since I believe too, as everybody says, there was a cover-up and everybody's wouldn't let him out of the field. had been---it's known as a hot area. Two soldiers who stopped their … the guy who knew what I was doing, found out that Bernie was over in the And we're trained better than that and We flew The first thing we saw was a draft-age The village was prepped with artillery prior to the assault, and we And he said, "I don't know, man, I don't know, it was just think the Army thought they had a 'yes-man' when they got Lieutenant General for my purposes at that time it was. at least I haven't found a way to capture it, but it was I guess you would Without idea. only a week before the massacre. . This was a full colonel (a full colonel is next to a general); that means on a light observation helicopter doing, ironically, almost exactly the (pant, pant)" over On the other hand, they had participated in the northern part of the Americal divisional area of operation. to a hundred and fifty homes on the highway about ten miles south of  Mr Thompson, 54, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was close to tears as he accepted the award "for all the men who served their country with honour on the battlefields of Southeast Asia". "I'm gonna get an investigation going ." I truly pray to God that My Lai was not an everyday occurrence. Up to 500 innocent people, including many women, children and the elderly, were killed by the Americans, who were angry at the deaths of their comrades. A video of the remarks of Thompson, Ridenhour, and chief prosecutor in We sat down and said "Hey, what are you doing?" 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