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TIL about Hugh Thompson Jr, the Hero of My Lai. During the Vietnam war he stopped the massacre of My Lai perpetrated by US forces upon unarmed civilians at My Lay and rescued several civilians. He and his crew even held US soldiers at bay with guns as he rescued a 6 year old among a pile of corpses.

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