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My Lai, Chapter 1
In December 1966, 140 members of Charlie Company began training in Hawaii under Captain Ernest Medina. The next year, these ordinary young men from across the country would leave for Vietnam and commit one of the worst atrocities in American military history -- the My Lai Massacre.
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