In the age of NSA wiretaps, Abu Ghraib and a host of other problems that seem remind us of that other ugly and unpopular war I mourn the passing of Hugh Thompson. 

Who was Hugh Thompson?  The year was 1968, perhaps the worst year in american history, and in Vietnam a war against a vague enemy was raging.  On 16 March of that year, the united states army's charlie company, 11th brigade, americal division, led my lt. william calley massacred hundreds of unarmed vietnamese civilians...woman, children, and the elderly...hardly the enemy.

it was chief warrant officer hugh thompson that stopped the massacre.  my lai was one of the darkest chapters in american involvement in vietnam, and maybe of the most heinous acts committed by the american military.  hugh thompson, as much as he could, stopped the massacre and helped bring the men responsible to justice