Also notable: the Ticonderoga’s logs showed it had recently conducted air strikes over Vietnam from the Gulf of Tonkin while carrying nuclear weapons. The A-4E, pilot’s body, and bomb were never recovered. DOD’s belated acknowledgement of the actual accident site sparked a political furor in Japan.

Yes you will! I very much look forward to that day.

Thank you for always sharing your work!

Dissertations re:My Lai I found useful

Pauline M. Kaurin, “Agency and Character: A View of Action and Agency” (diss., Temple University, 1997)

Rives M. Duncan, "What Went Right at My Lai: An Analysis of the Roles of Habitus and Character in Lawful Disobedience" (diss., Temple University, 1997),

Turse's work also shows the ways in which the historical moment in which we live influence our work as historians. He was writing at a time during which Abu Ghraib became a public scandal and in which the American Left railed against wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is one area in which Turse and I differ in approach. For him, all atrocity allegations are valid, and the goals of the claimant do not impinge on their reliability. I'm ore interested in the motivations and methods of allegations than the atrocities.

This is one of the issues with claims of atrocities as a function of policy - do we take allegations as entirely accurate and unmotivated by external concerns? Many allegations include motivations to have an effect that cannot be discounted.

While this is a damning account of the sort that Turse and those who admire his work use to claim that there was a "My Lai a Day in Vietnam," it remains unproven.