The Scene of the Crime
Seymour M. Hersh returns to Vietnam to visit the site of the My Lai massacre.
Then came a high-pitched whining as a two- or three-year-old boy, covered with mud and blood, crawled among the bodies at My Lai and scrambled toward the rice paddy. His mother had protected him with her body. Calley ran after the child, dragged him back to the ditch, threw him in, and shot him.