{"id":960,"date":"2006-01-07T02:17:34","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T02:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:31","slug":"hugh_thompson_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Honor at My Lai: Hugh Thompson Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/1110AP_Obit_Thompson.html\" target=\"browser\">just saw it<\/a>. I&#8217;d  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/005872.php\" target=\"browser\">blogged about him<\/a> two Veterans Days ago, and tried to explain the impact that learning his story had on me.<\/p>\n<p>In case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/doubleissue\/heroes\/thompson.htm\" target=\"browser\">you&#8217;ve forgotten<\/a>, he was the hero of My Lai &#8211; arguably the darkest day in the history of the modern U.S. military.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>He put himself and his men between American troops and the villagers they obviously intended to murder. He threatened American troops with his own crew&#8217;s weapons, and arranged for the other helicopters in his flight to evacuate a group of villagers, and then for his own crewman to rescue an uninjured small child from a pile of bodies.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen he returned to base, he reported the massacre; his reports were covered up.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the worst day in modern history for the U.S. military, a few soldiers covered themselves with honor.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I noted in the post, reading his story changed my attitude toward the U.S. military, and indirectly, probably started me on the part to where I am today.<\/p>\n<p>I owe him an immense debt, both personally and as a citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Lai hero Hugh Thompson has died. Armed Liberal has never met him, but owes him a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}