link from Kalinakka at table talk:
The Choices Made: LESSONS FROM MY LAI ON DRAWING THE LINE
Gunners Larry Colburn, left, and John Wennergren flew in gunships like this, or low and fast in OH23s, where they drew fire to identify enemy targets.
Thirty-four years ago this coming Saturday, more than 500 unarmed women, children and old men were raped, mutilated and killed by American soldiers on a rampage in the Vietnamese hamlet known as My Lai.
The massacre was stopped when a 24-year-old American helicopter pilot landed in the line of fire between the U.S. troops and Vietnamese civilians. While his 20-year-old crew chief and 18-year-old gunner covered his back, the pilot confronted one of the leaders of the massacre, then evacuated 10 villagers from a bunker. The crew also rescued a child clinging to his dead mother in a ditch.
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