Sơn Mỹ Memorial

The Sơn Mỹ Memorial (Di tích Sơn Mỹ) is a memorial to victims of the My Lai massacre, which took place on 16 March 1968 in Son My, Vietnam. This was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Mỹ Lai was actually the name of only one of four hamlets in the village of Sơn Mỹ in Quảng Ngãi Province. The event is referred to as the Mỹ Lai Massacre in the United States and the Sơn Mỹ Massacre in Vietnam. The memorial includes a museum and a large monument honoring the hundreds of civilians killed by American troops. It is located at the site of the massacre in Quảng Ngãi Province and includes the remains of the village of Sơn Mỹ. A large black marble plaque just inside the entrance to the museum lists the names of all 504 civilians killed, including "17 pregnant women and 210 children under the age of 13". A number of enlarged versions of U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle's photos of the massacre are shown inside the museum. The images are dramatically backlit in color and share the central back wall with a life-size recreation of American soldiers "rounding up and shooting cowering villagers". The museum also celebrates American heroes, including Ronald Ridenhour, who first exposed the killings, as well as Hugh Thompson and Lawrence Colburn, who intervened

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