‘Our Boys’: 50 Years After the My Lai Massacre
Excerpted from American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity Americans, including GIs, were losing their once reflexive faith that the U.S. military, with all its skill and firepower, would prevail in Vietnam as it had so often throughout history. Also shattered was the faith that America’s fighting forces were inherently more virtuous than … Continue reading “‘Our Boys’: 50 Years After the My Lai Massacre”