My Lai is a controversial event in history because there are many different views of what happened. The mission started when captain Ernest Medina instructed Lieutenant William Calley to destroy the village of My Lai. Medina told the 11th Brigade, Charlie Company, that any genuine villagers would have left their homes to go to market. Therefore, Medina and Calley instructed the brigade to kill all of the remaining villagers including the elderly, women, and children. …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…have changes my ideas of not only the Vietnam War, but also have made me question the war in Iraq. That the United States government is capable of trying to cover up its mistakes instead of facing them and attempting to rectify them makes me question if they would do the same thing today. Also that more people would not stand up as Thompson did makes me question the army in the past and present.