#My Lai massacre

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"On March 16, 1968, Calley led American soldiers of the Charlie Company on a mission to confront a crack outfit of Vietcong enemies. Instead, over several hours, the soldiers killed 504 unresisting civilians, mostly women, children and elderly men, in My Lai and a neighboring community."

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Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)

24/03/2024

Platoon is a 1986 film, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which deals with his time in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences the director had between 1967 and 1971 during his military service.

The film won 4 Oscars out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin as best director. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in eighty-third place in the ranking of the one hundred best American films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it dropped to eighty-sixth place. In 2019, it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.

The bloodiest episode, as in many other films dealing with the Vietnam War, is inspired by the most atrocious event of that conflict, known to history as the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers committed atrocities including rape of very young girls, indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians, destruction of the homes and resources of the inhabitants, believed to be allies of the Viet Cong, despite there being no evidence. From this perspective, the figure of the platoon commander, Lieutenant Wolfe, both for his inability to control his men and for other characteristics, can be traced back to the main person responsible for My Lai, the then US Army Lieutenant William Calley, convicted to several years of military detention for that very affair.

Due to an error by Lieutenant Wolfe, who gives wrong coordinates via radio, the platoon is decimated by friendly artillery.

In the last war action of his volunteer service, Chris escapes a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who almost completely annihilate the platoon and the subsequent American bombing with napalm.

Initially Hollywood snubs the script as many producers are of the opinion that what three is to say about the Vietnam War has already been reported in highly successful films such as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, however the strength of Stone's script still attracts some producers who see enormous potential in him. He was then assigned to write a screenplay for another film, Stone accepted and wrote Midnight Express in 1977, thanks to which he won the Oscar for best non-original screenplay (first statuette for Stone) a fact that made all of Hollywood understand the Stone's enormous potential; it was therefore not difficult for him to find the producer to begin work on Platoon.

The film was shot, following the great example of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, starting in February 1986. The film's production was almost canceled due to the political upheavals in country, due to Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the country. Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast members underwent a two-week course of intensive training by Dale Dye (former Marine captain during the Vietnam War and interpreter of Captain Harris), during which they had to dig trenches and suffer forced marches and night "ambushes".

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Lieutenant William Calley is dead.

Lieutenant Calley is dead, at 80, after living a long, long life.

He didn't deserve a fucking day.

On March 15, 1968, Calley led Company C of US Army infantry into the hamlet of My Lai in Vietnam. (The presence and culpability of Captain Ernest Medina was covered up. Medina also lived a long, long life and died at 81 in 2018.) Over the day, Company C carried out a systemic massacre of 504 women, children, and elderly men, who were the only occupants of My Lai.

When people think about Vietnam and the atrocities committed by Americans there, they might not know the name My Lai. But it was the big one.

The only thing that brought the massacre to a halt was a helicopter pilot, Warrant Officer Hugh C. Thompson, who landed his bird and threatened to order his gunners to shoot the infantry. He then went out and shielded the Vietnamese civilians with his body. Afterwards, Thompson was ostracized by the military, hounded by the press, and driven to an early grave.

He died at the age of 62 of liver cancer, having drunk himself to death.

William Calley died today.

I spit on his fucking grave.

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William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, has died. He was 80. Calley died on April 28, according to his Florida death record, which said he had been living in an apartment in Gainesville. His death was first reported by The Washington Post on Monday, citing his death certificate. Calley had lived in obscurity in the decades since he was court-martialed and convicted in 1971, the only one of 25 men originally charged to be found guilty in the massacre, which helped turn American opinion against the war in Vietnam. On March 16, 1968, Calley led American soldiers of the Charlie Company on a mission to confront a crack outfit of their Vietcong enemies. Instead, over several hours, the soldiers killed 504 unresisting civilians, mostly women, children and elderly men, in My Lai and a neighboring community.

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This is so fucking wild yall... 🤡

Hate the popular narrative of the disrespected, spat upon Vietnam War veteran becos it erases how badly draft dodgers, conscientious objectors, and anti-war/anti-imperialist protestors were treated by the US government and society, maybe even worse. They were blacklisted, arrested and some were even killed by state sanctioned violence but sureee, cry about how the big bad hippies were mean to you for blowing up Vietnamese villages.

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you started this story a little hard, or awkward, or stubborn. that's okay. it's harder than it should be to admit, but what you really want is love. that's what your story is all about - not just the act of loving, but the allowance of it. the confession that you do not want to fight or bleed or save the world, but to simply feel the way two hands fit so easily together. you will have two chairs and a table and you will shut your blinds, and you will say the word love without faltering. this is a happy ending, and you do not need to feel guilty. it hurts our hands to fight - never to hold.

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"We didn't lose, we merely... failed to win!"

smacked right in the mouth

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Vietnã relembra 50 anos do Massacre de My Lai

Quang Ngai, Vietnã, 18 de março de 2025 – Reuters — Este ano marca meio século desde o fim da Guerra do Vietnã. Em My Lai, onde mais de 500 aldeões foram mortos, uma cerimônia foi realizada no domingo (16) em homenagem às vítimas. Sobreviventes, moradores locais e veteranos dos EUA reuniram-se no local do massacre em Quang Ngai e observaram um momento de silêncio. Em 16 de março de 1968, um…

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