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Vietnam veteran and newspaper editor Tony Swindell tells the story (he was there that day) of Hugh Thompson and the My Lai massacre, how the Army destroyed Thompson for his heroic actions, the terrible fact that his predictions about Iraq have come true, his open letter to U.S. soldiers “The Looming Shadow of Nuremberg,” and the case of Lt. Ehren Watada.