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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: My Lai: Preview

What drove a company of American soldiers -- ordinary young men from around the country -- to commit the worst atrocity in American military history? Were they just following orders as some later declared? Or, did they break under the pressure of a vicious war in which the line between enemy soldier and civilian had been intentionally blurred?