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September 7, 2008March 22, 2016

A Young Boy Writes to an American Viet Nam War Hero

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Marsha Price, teacher
Marsha Price, teacher

A young boy, at the encouragement of his reading teacher, writes a letter to United States Army Captain Hugh Thompson, who had the courage to stand up to his own soldiers to end the My Lai Massacre in Viet Nam. Listen to Marsha Price, the boy’s reading teacher who assigned it as an essay on what it means to be a man, tell this moving story.

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