Unit 23 Confilct Lesson 1 War Memories
A Do Chuc is a forty-eight-year-old Vietnamese peasant whose two daughters and an aunt were killed by Gls in My Lai that day. He and his family were eating breakfast when the Gls entered the village and ordered them from their homes.Together with other villagers they were marched a few hundred metres into the plaza, where they were told to squat. "Still we had no reason to be afraid," Chuc recalled. "Everyone was calm. We'd seen it all before." He watched as the Gls set up a machine gun. The calm ended. The people began crying and begging. One monk showed his identification papers to a soldier, but the American simply said,"Sorry." Then the shooting started. Chuc was wounded in the leg, but the was covered by dead bodies and thus spared. After waiting an hour, he fled the village. (From My Lai by Seymour Hersh)