A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her Mothers blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI’s. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam. 16 March 1968. [563 x 845]
"Guys were about to shoot these people," Photographer Ron Haeberle remembers, "I yelled ‘Hold it’ and shot my picture. As I walked away, I heard M16s open up. From the corner of my eye I saw bodies falling, but i didn’t turn to look"
![A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her Mothers blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI's. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam. 16 March 1968. [563 x 845]](https://i.imgur.com/dzyxxx5.jpg)
verostein
"Guys were about to shoot these people," Photographer Ron Haeberle remembers, "I yelled ‘Hold it’ and shot my picture. As I walked away, I heard M16s open up. From the corner of my eye I saw bodies falling, but i didn’t turn to look"
https://www.readingthepictures.org/2013/10/my-lai-sexual-assault-and-the-black-blouse-girl-forty-five-years-later-one-of-americas-most-iconic-photos-hides-truth-in-plain-sight/
sanderjam
Estimated 500 civilians killed. 1 US soldier convicted, sentence commuted after 3 years of home confinement.