Pham Thi Thuan, My Lai, Vietnam March 30, 2012 © Marissa Roth
On March 16th, 1968, the 11th Infantry Brigade of the American Army received an order to destroy four hamlets suspected of collaborating with the Viet Cong. Although they were met with no resistance, the soldiers led by Lieutenant William Calley, massacred 504 people that morning, mostly women and children, and completely destroyed the village.
Pham Thi Thuan, now 74 years old, along with her 2 young daughters, miraculously survived that terrible day without injury, as they laid in an irrigation ditch with dead and dying people on top of them. "My life after that was very hard. But it's a long time ago. Now the US and Vietnam have a good relationship, so I don't want to be angry anymore. I've tried to come over it".
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