In 2018, I traveled with journalist Shaun Raviv to central Vietnam for the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre, when on 16 March 1968 US troops entered the village hamlet and killed unprovoked hundreds of innocent men, women, and children.  For this story, we walked the same dirt paths through the same rice fields that US soldiers walked decades before us, harbingers of death and destruction. We saw the scarred trees of war and the mass graves that now dotted the landscape. And we met with survivors who invited us into their homes and served us tea and told us their stories. And for days, we simply listened.

These photographs and a thousand more could never do the full story justice, so I encourage you to read Shaun’s incredible piece for Smithsonian Magazine HERE.