Larry Colburn, Who Helped Stop My Lai Massacre, Dies at 67

[mobilehaathi]

This took serious courage and conscience. We should all strive to demonstrate even a fraction of this in our life.

RIP.

Larry Colburn, who became an 18-year-old American hero when he intervened with two comrades to halt the massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by United States soldiers in 1968, elevating an innocuous hamlet named My Lai into a watchword for the horrors of war, died on Tuesday at his home in Canton, Ga. He was 67.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/asia/larry-colburn-my-lai-massacre-dies.html

 

[CrystalQuest76]

Sadly, few people are willing to confront evil, both great and small. Individuals would rather not get involved and just watch as wrong and illegal actions occur.

 

[vkd]

...Mai Lai, Hiroshima, know what I mean? Same effing lies with depressing frequency, say "we had to do it, keep our lives clean." Who's lives? Who's effing lives? I'll tell you one thing, it ain't me and you. Etc.

 

[blesscheese]

A true hero. Sad to see people like this go...it is also sad that we don't celebrate them more while they are alive.