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Noah Souza (B), Mitchell Denslow (B), Connor Azzarello (B), Varun Damodarasamy (B)

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Noah Souza (B), Mitchell Denslow (B), Connor Azzarello (B), Varun Damodarasamy (B)

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"I was ordered to go in there and destroy the enemy...That was my job on that day. That was the mission I was given. I did not sit down and think in terms of men, women and children."

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"I was ordered to go in there and destroy the enemy...That was my job on that day. That was the mission I was given. I did not sit down and think in terms of men, women and children."

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Colonel William Wilson

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Showed the American people of the brutality of war upon innocent Vietnam citizens, and how it not only can be spoken with words, but with pictures and videos. They initially hid the massacre itself, and military officials were eventually convicted of war crimes.

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December 1967: Charlie Company (Military Infantry Division) Heads to Vietnam
January 1968: Tet Offensive
March 16, 1968: The Day of the Massacre, flooded the news and media, however was initially masked from the people
April 1968: The end of Charlie Company, disbanded

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American soldiers brutally murdered an estimated 500 women, children, and elderly in March of 1968. The attack was on the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. The government kept the massacre a secret for almost a year and a half, when it surfaced it exponentially increased anti-war sentiment. Military officials were eventually convicted of crimes related to the event in 1970.

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The My Lai hamlet including the village of Son My was located in the Quang Ngai province. This area was believed to be a stronghold of the National Liberation Front (NFL) or Viet Cong (VC) and was a frequent bombing target of the U.S. and South Vietnamese.