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After My Lai: My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

After My Lai: My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

Bray, Gary W.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMilitary BiographiesVietnam War

ISBN10: 0806140453
ISBN13: 9780806140452
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Feb 26 2010
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married, freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the My Lai massacre--the murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians--eighteen months earlier. In this compelling memoir, he shares his experiences of Vietnam in the direct wake of that terrible event.

After My Lai documents the war's horrific effects on both sides of the struggle. Bray presents the Vietnam conflict as the touchstone of a generation, telling how his feelings about being a soldier--a family tradition--were dramatically altered by the events he participated in and witnessed. He explains how young men, angered by the deaths of comrades and with no release for their frustration, can sometimes cross the line of legal and ethical behavior.

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