My Lai

“If Nixon’s reality — wearing a new Ford face — continues to run the country against the law, our homes will be bloodier than the Tate-LaBianca houses and My Lai put together,” she said.

Three-and-a-half months later, 24-year-old “Rusty” Calley was at the center of the My Lai massacre, one of the darkest chapters in U.S. military history.

After My Lai, Calley was sentenced to life at hard labor.

William Calley for the My Lai massacre underscored roiling tensions in America.

Once the story of My Lai emerged, “the American government couldn’t say, ‘Oh, that’s how it is in Vietnam, everyone,’” He wrote.