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Summary: Important book on the Vietnam War
Review: A recounting of the story of how 90 American soldiers murdered and raped innocent villagers at My Lai, the book should be required reading of all American school children.
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Summary: Important book on the Vietnam War
Review: A recounting of the story of how 90 American soldiers murdered and raped innocent villagers at My Lai, the book should be required reading of all American school children.
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Summary: The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story
Review: From what I have seen written on the pages exhibited, I am asking our librarian here in Sandwich, NH to purchase this book. Hugh Thompson has always been a hero to me, and represents the helicopter pilots who were in Vietnam quite well. We were all brash, and ballsey, and would stand up to a lot of things we didn't think too swift. His deed outshines us all. I flew UH-1D's in the Delta, and have written about my experiences there in OUTLAWS IN VIETNAM.
Being a helicopter pilot in this war was the best job one could wish for--it was the best year of all of our lives! Hopefully, more of these excellent aviators will be profiled in the future.
My librarian finally purchased the book after these initial notes, and I have been reading it nonstop. This should really shed some light on the horror of the Americal Division higher-ups who authorized this bloodletting by Lt. Calley and others of Charlie Company that day. They had been ordered to commit the atrocities we all know about today, and as I continue the book, it is interesting to me to experience the angst that Hugh Thompson and his crew felt that terrible day at My Lai. He is most human, and painfully so. The author discloses all this helicopter crew went through then and since; well done!!
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Summary: I have read this book time and time again
Review: I have read this book time and time again and I can not picture the mass murder of all the people at MY LAI over an order to kill anything that moves. Thank GOD for HUGH THOMPSON and his crew! You got to read this book. I am intears thinking about the loss of the crew chief and the innocent lives lost at MY LAI!
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Summary: Unbelivable heroism and compassion in spite of deadly danger
Review: I read the book in two nights, reading and re-reading pages of unbelievable courage and heroism. I was amazed that a young man of 24 had such courage and compassion in a situation that easily could have meant his death. For thirty years leading politicians--yes, even the President--the top military and the Pentagon have buried this unbelievable act of heroism. But now the true story is available in this book. I strongly urge every parent to present this book to their sons and daughters for them to use Hugh Thompson's example of valor, compassion, love of mankind as a role model to always do the right thing no matter what the cost. Frank Robles
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Summary: A MUST READ!!
Review: I started reading this book and it had me glued to every page! To think that our boys could do a thing like that to 504 inocent old men,women,and childeren just turned my heart inside out. I also was touched by a song in the book Warriors for Humanity! This is a book to be read! It tells the truth and I cryied knowing that our boys let one man lead them into insanity.
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Summary: True story of an American Hero
Review: If you liked the movie "Saving Private Ryan", you will love this book. The only important difference is this one is a true story! It will restore your faith in the courage of three ordinary soldiers who risked their lives to save innocent women, childern, and elderly civilians during a barbarous killing rampage at My Lai in 1968. Hugh Thompson, the helicopter pilot, who directed the ad hoc rescue operation, also endured nearly 30 years of criticism and indifference from many of his peers in the armed forces. At long last, the heroic actions of Mr. Thompson, Larry Colburn, and Glenn Andreotta have finally been recognized and appreciated by the government of the United States. This book proves that it is never too late to correct a wrong and that true American heroes live among us. Every parent concerned about the dangerous effects of peer pressure should buy this book as a gift to their childern.
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Summary: True story of an American Hero
Review: If you liked the movie "Saving Private Ryan", you will love this book. The only important difference is this one is a true story! It will restore your faith in the courage of three ordinary soldiers who risked their lives to save innocent women, childern, and elderly civilians during a barbarous killing rampage at My Lai in 1968. Hugh Thompson, the helicopter pilot, who directed the ad hoc rescue operation, also endured nearly 30 years of criticism and indifference from many of his peers in the armed forces. At long last, the heroic actions of Mr. Thompson, Larry Colburn, and Glenn Andreotta have finally been recognized and appreciated by the government of the United States. This book proves that it is never too late to correct a wrong and that true American heroes live among us. Every parent concerned about the dangerous effects of peer pressure should buy this book as a gift to their childern.
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Summary: A significant contribution to the fight against indifference
Review: It is impossible not to be moved by this great story. Any serviceman will know that not obeying orders and even worse - to turn your weapons on your own and make a cristal clear threat - usually means severe trouble; either being shot at the spot or to be court-martialled and cicked out of the military. This is the unique story of a man and his crew who did just that. - To save some total strangers; some civilians they did't know and had no responsibility for. They could easily have turned their heads away, and gotten away from it. But they acted, and took charge. Humanity needs heroes and ideals that we can look up to and to lead us in difficult moments. The two surviving crew members have been my true heroes through more than ten of my military years. Their My Lai story of courage and ideals and high morale has been tought to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish soldiers and officers as military ethics, code of conduct and law of war for many years already. The British TV film on My Lai, shown also in all the Scandinavian countries should be seen by servicemen and particularly in all military academies all over the world. This book is an impressive and important milestone. My compliments and highest recommendation. Terje Lund. Major, Royal Norwegian Air Force, Attorney at law, Special adviser on international humanitarian law, Norwegian Red Cross. "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference." (Elie Wiesel)
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Summary: A long awaited story of what really happened at My Lai
Review: Since the US Army finally got around to acknowledging the real heros of the My Lai massacre in March 1998 this book has been awaited by thousands of Americans who knew there was a great deal more than had been reported in the media and from official sources. Trent Angers' compelling story fills in all the details.Many of us who had served our country in the Vietnam period and previous conflicts knew that there had to be Americans who would not standby and permit killing of innocent non combatants by our own troops or by enemy forces for that matter. Something was dead wrong on that fateful day in March 1968 with the leadership of the military forces involved in an operation gone awry in the village of My Lai in central Vietnam.Now thanks to the clear reporting of CWO Hugh Thompson's story we know the full story of the undaunted courage and bravery of Thompson and his crew when they discovered the shocking truth that US troops were out of control and had committed unspeakable horror against unarmed women,children and elderly villagers in executing unlawful orders in a fundamently flawed search and destroy operation.Author Angers brings to light events leading up to and following My Lai in vivid detail and the development of the ethical foundations of Thompson and his crew that did't allow them to look the other way on that fateful day.It is quite clear now that the Thompson crew stopped what could have been an even more egregious stain on the over two hundred year distinguished history of the US military. As Angers tells us, the Thompson story did not come to light until a patriotic citizen soldier, Prof.David Egan of Clemson University saw a British documentary in 1989 and began a ten year crusade to see that this forgotten hero was justly recognized for restoring honor and integrety to the US Army he himself had served. Angers telling of the Hugh Thompson story restores the faith faith of countless citizens that most of our soldiers in Vietnam served honorably and some like Hugh Thompson,Larry Colburn and their crewmate Glen Andriotta, honored on the Memorial Wall in Washington DC,were the real heros of that difficult period in our Nations history.This story of ordinary men taking an extraordinary action is destined to become a classic in the literature of the Vietnam period.As the author of the US Army's lengthy investigative report on the massacre tells us,"...If there was a hero at My Lai,it was helicopter pilot CWO Thompson"
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