This book examines the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. The author argues that the massa

This thesis uses the referent zMy Lai Massacrey to refer to the mythic memory of what happened in Son My on 16 March, 1968. It argues that it is a fitting name

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Allison tells the story of a terrible moment in American history and explores how to deal with the aftermath. On March 16, 1968, American soldiers killed as man

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