A Nazi-type thing

Another witness to the shootings was Michael Terry, Orem, Utah, then a member of the C Platoon of Medina’s company and now a sophomore at nearby Brigham Young University. Interviewed at his home, Terry said he, too, came on the scene moments after the killings began.

“They just marched through shooting everybody,” he said. “Seems like no one said anything. … They just started pulling people out and shooting them.”

At one point, he said, more than 20 villagers were lined up in front of a ditch and shot.

“They had them in a group standing over a ditch — just like a Nazi-type thing.“

—Seymour Hersh, „GIs Call Viet Killings ‚Point-Blank Murder'“, Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 20, 1969.