Hear a sound montage from Tuesday s event at Riverfront Park.
On Tuesday, members of Spokane’s chapter of Veterans for Peace looked back 53 years to the My Lai massacre, an event some believe turned American public opinion against the Vietnam War.
Here are a few moments from the gathering at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Riverfront Park, starting with the chapter’s vice president, George Taylor.
“Today we are here at this sacred place to remember the 504 innocent, unarmed Vietnamese civilians who were killed at the hamlet of My Lai [me lie] on this day, on this morning, 53 years ago. In the stillness of that morning, U.S. Army Company C, at the direct command of Lt. William Calley, opened fire, indiscriminately, on the unarmed villagers, without provocation. My Lai was not the only instance of rape, torture and murder, of U.S. troops in Vietnam. But in terms of intensity and scale, it was penultimate massacre of the war, George Taylor said.
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does. and that really, i think, changes the equation in terms of how americans look at an impeachment. whether they see it as valid even. and i often think to myself as like a thought exercise of just to illustrate just how much things have changed. what would have happened if the my lai massacre happened while donald trump was president and sean hannity was on the air at fox? how would americans have processed that? would they have thought that it really even happened? and i think that those are the stakes. that s what you need to think about going into something like a national trauma that the impeachment would be. wow. i m old enough to remember that story and lieutenant calley and the scars it left. anita, is there any way a reporter like yourself can find
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