Mike Boehm: Honors for My Lai hero came much too late
Lost among the headlines about Iraq and secret detentions was the story of the death last week of a hero and a patriot: Hugh Thompson.
Army pilot Thompson and his two helicopter crewmen rescued 10 Vietnamese villagers who were about to be killed by American soldiers in My Lai, Vietnam, on March 16, 1968.
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