Fair Telling of a Dark period in American History
This 90 minute documentary is well done and does a nice job of giving a full picture of what happened before, during, and after the My Lai fiasco. For those who want to have a clearer understanding of the massacre this is well worth watching. It does a nice job of putting into perspective of what the soldiers were going through and their state of mind before they went into the village of My Lia that fateful day. Often times historic events are told without putting the people and situation into context of the times and events but this documentary does it's best to do so.
The documentary also covers all the players in the event, those who exposed what happen and those who tried to covered it up, and the Public. The public was as much of a player in this event and why many of the decisions that were made by the military and civilian leaders were done so. Clearly this is not a shinning moment in American history but we all should take note of it and learn from it so we don't...
Commander's Analysis: This operation was well planned, well executed. Friendly casualties were light...
Two news events in the first half of 1970 irrevocably altered the course of the Vietnam War. One was the National Guard killing of four Kent State University students (and the wounding of nine others) in May of that year. The other was the Cleveland Plain Dealer's publication two months earlier of an Army photographer's color snapshots of piles of civilian dead in a Qu'ng Ng
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