He threw his weapon down and said he wasnt going to do it. Likewise, what Hugh did has been ignored or glossed over in history texts, much the same way the incident has been. I lost faith in the whole military organization and wanted to put it all behind me. When did you see those particular villagers again? Hugh Thompsonsdefiance and courage with that of his crew had given a new lease of life to others that they saved and will be remembered by all in the face of Humanity and History. And he was a character, a real joker. It was Hugh and he told me that I would be getting orders to report to Washington. When I moved to the East Coast, I stopped at a VA hospital and had a list of things I thought I should get out. The villagers offered no resistance as U.S. soldiers shoved them into a ditch and opened fire with machine guns. Hugh Thompson returned to M Lai in 1998 and met some of the people he saved. That was a point of no return for Thompson? The My Lai story and Hugh Thompsons role in it is really important, but do you find most people are unaware of it? When I first joined the company, the commander took the volunteers to the flight line and showed us bullet holes in the aircraft and asked us if we knew what they were. "I threatened never to fly again. As we got back on station, we saw a lot of villagers leaving and figured that we may have dropped leaflets or had fired some artillery in morning. As I understand, that part of brain doesnt develop until 25. When it was all over, hundreds of unarmed civilians had been murdered by American forces. PDF Prepared Testimony and He is still tiny, but he remembers everything. I saw them shoot an M79 [grenade launcher] into a group of people who were still alive, said Sgt. He kept the aircraft and himself in between these people and the squad. That seemed suicidal to me, going out with next to no backup or firepower. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. Thompson was the first to communicate back to headquarters about the killing occurring on the ground. They could communicate with the command craft that was flying at altitude. PFC. Harry's phone-hacking testimony contained 'troubling factual inconsistencies', hacking judge says. It took several weeks of time, and several volumes of testimony to satisfy the United States pen<rion bureau that "Old Reliable" was the identical soldier who had enlisted in Company H, Fifteenth Ohio volunteer Infantry, in 1862, and who was last reported "wounded and missing In battle of .
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