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The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory (Paperback, New Ed)
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The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory (Paperback, New Ed)
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On 16 March 1968, two US infantry companies entered a Vietnamese
village and in the course of a single morning killed over 400 of
its unarmed, unresisting inhabitants . . . This is the first book
to examine the response of American society to the My Lai massacre
and its ambiguous place in American national memory. Kendrick
Oliver argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans
untroubled. It was only when the soldiers most immediately
responsible came to be tried that opposition to the conflict grew,
for these prosecutions were regarded by supporters of the war as
evidence that the national leaders no longer had the will to do
what was necessary to win. Oliver goes on to show that, contrary to
interpretations of the Vietnam conflict as an unhealed national
trauma or wound, many Americans have assimilated the war and its
violence rather too well, and they were able to do so even when
that violence was most conspicuous and current. US soldiers have
been presented as the conflict's principal victims, and this was
true even in the case of My Lai. It was the American perpetrators
of the massacre and not the Vietnamese they brutalized who became
the central object of popular concern. Both the massacre and its
reception reveal the problem of human empathy in conditions of a
counter-revolutionary war - a war, moreover, that had always been
fought for geopolitical credibility, not for the sake of the
Vietnamese. This incisive enquiry into the moral history of the
Vietnam war should be essential reading for all students of the
conflict, as well as others interested in the war and its cultural
legacies. -- .
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