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Indirect Deaths

Andrea Mazzarino TomDispatch
book cover The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars at Home and Abroad.

A Forgotten Hero Stopped the My Lai Massacre

Jon Wiener Los Angeles Times
Everybody's heard of the My Lai massacre, but not about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot. He told the American troops, if they opened fire on the hiding Vietnamese civilians, he and his crew would open fire on them.
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