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My Lai 4: A Book Report - Paper

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 a 14
year old girl by twenty GIs ... in front of the parents. They were all
shot after the GIs were "done with their ...

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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 their life to the military. The GIs were
selected for "Charlie Company" specifically because they had all scored
too low on the initial exam to be put into a regular battalions.
After the massacre, nothing was done. As a matter of fact, "Charlie
Company" was praised for having the "most kills" in one day. By late 1969,
most of the GIs in Charlie Company were civilians again, and a few began
to tell what they had seen (and participated in). A Government
Investigation was called against Lt. Calley (who ordered, and participated
in the murders). Some of the photographs from the massacre were published.
You wouldn't believe what the civilian response was! The overwhelming
public response was to ...

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Added: 3/31/2005 03:44:41 AM
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