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Back to My Lai
Item Name:Back to My Lai
Reviewer Name:Cothen, Elizabeth
Reviewer Affiliation:AEMS
Reviewer Bio:Elizabeth Cothen is the former assistant program coordinator for AEMS. She has a BA in Asian Studies and is pursuing her MLS in Library and Information Science.
Review Source:Asian Educational Media Service
Review Citation:Winter 2001 News & Reviews, Bargain Buys column



REVIEW

During the 1990s, CBS's "60 Minutes"traveled back to the village My Lai to confront an incident many Americans would like to forget – the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of innocent civilians by U.S. soldiers. Accompanied by two airmen that helped stopped the atrocity, Mike Wallace talks with several of the town's former residents (no one actually lives in My Lai anymore, though some still work there), including one woman that had been personally saved by one of the airmen. Although the program, titled Back to My Lai, is very critical of the men who performed this act, especially the officers, it stops short of arguing that the entire war effort was wrong.



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