Hugh Thompson Jr. citations (11 citations)

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“They said I was screaming quite loud. I threatened never to fly again. I didn't want to be a part of that. It wasn't war.”

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Hugh Thompson, Jr.

In a 2004 interview with US News & World Report. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/national/07thompson.html
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“Something terrible happened here 30 years ago today. I cannot explain why it happened. I just wish our crew that day could have helped more people than we did.”

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Hugh Thompson, Jr.

Quoted by CNN, regarding the My Lai massacre. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/national/07thompson.html
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“I'm going to go over and get them out of the bunker myself. If the squad opens up on them, shoot 'em.”

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Hugh Thompson, Jr.

To Spec. Lawrence Colburn, giving him the order to fire on any fellow US Army soldiers if they attempted to kill a group of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2002/0310/cover.html

“What a great man. There are so many people today walking around alive because of him, not only in Vietnam, but people who kept their units under control under other circumstances because they had heard his story. We may never know just how many lives he saved.”

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Hugh Thompson, Jr.

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Col. Tom Kolditz, head of the Army academy's behavioral sciences and leadership department.
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“He was treated like a traitor for 30 years, so he was conditioned to just shut up and be quiet. Every bit of information I got from him, I had to drag it out of him.”

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Hugh Thompson, Jr.

Trent Angers, Thompson's biographer http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1136568553158920.xml&storylist=louisiana
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“Thompson landed again. Glenn and I got out of the aircraft, took out the guns. Hugh walked over to this lieutenant [Brooks], and I could tell they were in a shouting match. I thought they were going to get in a fist fight. He told me later what they said. Thompson: 'Let's get these people out of this bunker and get 'em out of here.' Brooks: 'We'll get 'em out with hand grenades.' Thompson: 'I can do better than that. Keep your people in place. My guns are on you.”

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Hugh Thompson, Jr.

Hugh was outranked, so this was not good to do, but that's how committed he was to stopping it.
Thompson's gunner, Spec. Lawrence Colburn http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2002/0310/cover.html
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“Don't do the right thing looking for a reward, because it might not come.”

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Hugh Thompson, Jr.

In a 2004 interview with AP. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/national/07thompson.html
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“You can't imagine what courage it took to do what he did.”

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Hugh Thompson, Jr.

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Seymour Hersh, journalist who "broke" the My Lai massacre story.
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“He was the guy who by his heroic actions gave a morality and dignity to the American military effort. At war sometimes things get topsy turvy, so he was a moral example at a time when things were pure evil.”

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Douglas Brinkley, Tulane history professor. http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1136568553158920.xml&storylist=louisiana
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