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January 08, 2006
American Hero: Dead at 62
Hugh Thompson, 62, Who Saved Civilians at My Lai, Dies - New York Times
Once upon a time some Americans were involved in a very bad thing. We’d sent some of our sons (and daughters) over to a country called Vietnam. Now, this wasn’t bad in and of itself. But during this war some of our soldiers started slaughtering the very civilians they were there to protect. Well, one young man came in the middle of all this. He turned his guns on his own countrymen and placed his life between civilians and “war’s desolation”* He showed outstanding physical and moral courage and deserves remembrance in America’s Pantheon on Heroes. Requiescat in Pace
* This is a line from our National Anthem. The 2nd and 3rd stanzas really are something Americans ought be more familiar with...
Posted by Andrew at January 8, 2006 10:45 AM
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