Some of the atrocities are not only recorded officially, but allegedly used for instruction-
BROUSSARD, La. (AP) -- In 1968, Army helicopter pilot Hugh C. Thompson Jr. set down his chopper and put a stop to one of the darkest episodes in U.S. military history: the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
Thompson and his crew rescued villagers from U.S. soldiers who were forcing women, children and old men into a ditch and killing them.
Those actions are now a basic part of every Army soldier's education. Thompson speaks to servicemen in all branches of the military and lectures future Army officers at West Point every year on a key military imperative: Report wrongdoing by fellow soldiers....
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