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While multiple officers were charged in connection with the massacre, Calley was the only one convicted. “Calley and his men rounded up these civilians and then Calley ordered his men to kill them.”The massacre lasted for hours. A ditch in My Lai village, Vietnam, where US troops killed Vietnamese civilians on March 16, 1968. Kham/ReutersThe fragile lineThousands of miles away and 30 years later, those who lost loved ones in the My Lai massacre would tell CNN they were never truly able to move on. “There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai,” Calley said, according to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.
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William L. Calley Jr., who as a young Army lieutenant during the Vietnam War was the only American convicted in the murder of hundreds of unarmed, unresisting Vietnamese civilians in the atrocity known as the My Lai Massacre, died on April 28 in hospice in Gainesville, Fla, according to Social Security Administration records. The cause of his death is not publicly available. Family members of Lieutenant Calley did not immediately respond to requests for additional information. His death was first reported by The Washington Post. His death record was found through data shared from the Social Security Death Master File to Lexis Nexis.
Persons: William L, Calley Jr, Calley, Lai, Mee Lye Organizations: Social Security Administration, The Washington Post, Social, Lexis Nexis Locations: Vietnam, Gainesville, Fla
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