My Lai Massacre by https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre en-us 2016-05-02 17:45:19 UTC 2016-05-02 18:26:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/monkey.jpg varun_damodarasamy https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108820033 2016-05-02 17:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108820033 Background Information on the Area  https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108820538 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.


]]> 2016-05-02 17:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108820538 Overview connor_azzarello https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108820701 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.

]]> 2016-05-02 17:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108820701 varun_damodarasamy https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108821026 2016-05-02 18:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108821026 Timeline https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108821751 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

]]> 2016-05-02 18:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108821751 varun_damodarasamy https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108824384 2016-05-02 18:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108824384 varun_damodarasamy https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108824886 2016-05-02 18:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108824886 Impact https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108825616 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.]]> 2016-05-02 18:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108825616 "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." connor_azzarello https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108825682 Colonel William Wilson]]> 2016-05-02 18:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108825682 Noah Souza (B), Mitchell Denslow (B), Connor Azzarello (B), Varun Damodarasamy (B) varun_damodarasamy https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108827648 2016-05-02 18:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/connor_azzarello/MyLaiMassacre/wish/108827648