My Lai Massacre

tragic" –Nixon. My Lai, a small village in Southern Vietnam, is the site of a mass killing of around 347 to 504 unarmed civilians. The victims included men, women, children, and infants. After the horrific events, the support for the war in Vietnam dropped significantly. On October 15, 1969, millions of Americans engaged in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. The massacre was a critical moment, and it initiated the end of the United States contributions in the war. The My Lai Massacre…

needed or wanted. (GL11) “An area inhabited by 17,000 people with 70% destroyed with no warning to the residents of the village(Erwin 66). “I do not agree with the proposition that the massacre at My Lai is the result of self-deception. I would even say to regard every man, woman, and child what happened in My Lai were not accidents(Erwin 110).” ”Three boats it was 10 at night they were unloading their boats. And we open fired on them. it seemed like no one ran out of ammo daylight game we…

In the same year, another incident happen name the My Lai Massacre. In 1969, the Vietnamization policy has been introduced. Gulf of Tonkin incident is happen when one of the U.S destroyer ship known as the USS Maddox clashed with the North Vietnamese fast attack craft. The result of this incident, the Congress…

My Lai:The Causes and Morals Zak Brustman The My Lai massacre was a result of a long and grueling war that conditioned the American soldiers to see the vietnamese not as the people they were sent to protect, but as potential threats. The Vietnam war cultivated a culture of fear within the American troops, leading to rash behavior in the field. Racism, fear, ignorance, ambiguous orders, and a lack of training all contributed to the My Lai massacre,…

The Vietnam War was very gruesome, and took many lives. One of the events of the Vietnam War was the My Lai Massacre, which occurred on March 16, 1968. A group of U.S soldiers murdered about half of the population of a village called My Lai (History.com). The soldiers were a part of Charlie Company, which is just the name of the unit they were involved with. They were on a “search and destroy” mission to kill Viet Cong who were thought to be occupied there (Digital History). They found no Viet…

The National Guard was responsible for the Kent State shootings. On May 4, 1970, the National Guard made an enormous mistake. Every year on May 4th, some witnesses recall the horrifying events that happened at Kent State University so many years ago. They recall the tragic deaths that occurred on that day. What started out as an innocent riot turned into four cases of a bloody manslaughter. The National Guard was ordered to go to Kent State to stop the riots, but to their dismay, their…

Peter Le Professor Herily Govt 2305 13 August 2016 My Lai Essay The My Lai massacres was one of the most brutal event in history. What is this awful massacres you may ask? Well the My Lai massacres was the mass murder of many unarmed citizens, including beautiful Vietnamese women, elderly women and children. This massacres happen on March 16, 1968. Not only that these victims were murder but were also gang-raped, beaten and tortured. In every Massacres, there always many question such as “why…

It is after the Tet Offensive that largely caused the U.S. public opinion of the war to shift. Furthermore, the My Lai Massacre, on March 16, 1968, which was a massacre of women and children, shock not only the American people but the GI’s as well (O’ Connell, lecture). This incident solidified the unwarranted violence against the Vietnamese, “The army which they had been taught was the noble…

started, a platoon of 140 men from Charlie Company of the United States Army went into a small village called My Lai and slaughtered 504 Vietnamese men, women, and children in a village that consisted of 700 inhabitants. The My Lai Massacre was a tragic event that altered the lives of not only the men involved, but also the American public as the truth about that day finally came to surface. My Lai, also known as Pinkville, is located in the Quang Ngai Province, which was believed to be a…

The structure of the military is responsible for soldiers committing cruel and unnecessary acts. For example, the My Lai massacre and the abuses at the Abu-Ghraib prison in Iraq are great illustrations of this. Kelman and Hamilton (1989) in “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience” did not only write about what occurred during the My Lai massacre, but expanded on WHY the military personnel engaged in this horrible act. Their main explanation is that the structure of the military…