A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago | Opinion
(LA Times Dodgers)

Everybody´s heard of the My Lai massacre - March 16, 1968, 50 years ago - but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot. When he arrived, American soldiers had already killed 504 Vietnamese civilians (that´s the Vietnamese count; the U.S. Army said 347)....