Editing My Lai massacre (section)

===Historical memorials===
[[File: Vietnam - Hanoi - War Remnants Museum - Haeberle.JPG |thumb|upright 1.2|Visitors to the War Remnants Museum view enlarged photos of the massacre by Ronald Haeberle.]]

====Ho Chi Minh City====
The massacre is memorialized at two locations within Vietnam. The first is in Ho Chi Minh City at the [[War Remnants Museum]], which contains exhibits relating to the [[First Indochina War]] and the [[Second Indochina War]] (the Vietnam War in the United States). This museum is the most popular museum in the city, attracting approximately half a million visitors every year.<ref>{{cite web |title=When the Whole Village Died – My Lai Massacre |url=https://www.roughguides.com/vietnam/ho-chi-minh-city-and-around/?redirect_ng |date=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=Rough Guides |access-date=2023-06-18 |quote=This museum is the city's most popular attraction but not for the faint-hearted. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Introduction general |url=https://warremnantsmuseum.com/posts/introduction-general |date=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=War Remnants Museum |access-date=2023-06-18 }}</ref> A number of Haeberle's photos are displayed in the museum along with other artifacts and information about the massacre.

====Sơn Mỹ====
[[File:Monument of the My Lai Massacre (2).jpg|thumb|left|Monument of the My Lai Massacre in Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam]]
The second is the Sơn Mỹ Memorial Museum which is located at the site of the massacre and includes the remains of the village of Sơn Mỹ in Quảng Ngãi Province.<ref>{{cite web |title=My Lai: Ghosts in another Vietnam wall |url=https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/my-lai-massacre-vietnam-memorial-intl-hnk/index.html |first=Brad |last=Lendon |date=2021-03-21 |publisher=CNN Travel |access-date=2023-06-18 |quote=The pictures, taken by a US Army combat photographer, were horrifying. Piles of bodies, looks of terror on Vietnamese faces as they stared at certain death, a man shoved down a well, homes set ablaze. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=When the Whole Village Died – My Lai Massacre |url= https://whattawowworld.com/en/feelings/my-lai-massacre-mass-slaughter-vietnamese-civilians/ |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=What a Wow World |access-date=2023-06-18 }}</ref> A large black marble plaque just inside the entrance to the museum lists the names of all 504 civilians killed by the American troops, including "17 pregnant women and 210 children under the age of 13."<ref name="SmithsonianMag">{{cite magazine |title=The Ghosts of My Lai |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ghosts-my-lai-180967497/ |first=Shaun |last=Raviv |date=January 2018 |magazine=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=2023-06-26 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Bearing Witness to the Inhuman at Mỹ Lai: Museum, Ritual, Pilgrimage  |url=https://www.asianetworkexchange.org/article/id/7847/ |first=R |last=Tamashiro |date=2018 |publisher=ASIANetwork Exchange |journal=ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts |volume=25 |pages=60–79 |doi=10.16995/ane.267 |access-date=2023-06-18 |doi-access=free }}</ref> A number of enlarged versions of Haeberle's photos are shown inside the museum.<ref name="SaigonNews">{{cite news |title=Photos of Son My massacre to be displayed again |url=https://en.sggp.org.vn/photos-of-son-my-massacre-to-be-displayed-again-post100796.html |date=2023-03-11 |work=Saigon News |access-date=2023-06-18 }}</ref> The images are dramatically backlit in color and share the central back wall with a life-size recreation of American soldiers "rounding up and shooting cowering villagers."<ref>{{cite web |title=Remembering the Unforgettable: The Memorial at My Lai |url=https://castle.eiu.edu/studiesonasia/documents/seriesIII/Vol%204%20No%201/s3v4n1_Kucera.pdf |first=Karil |last=Kucera |date=2008 |publisher=Studies on Asia |website=castle.eiu.edu |access-date=2023-06-18 }}</ref> The museum also celebrates American heroes, including [[Ronald Ridenhour]] who first exposed the killings, as well as [[Hugh Thompson Jr.|Hugh Thompson]] and [[Lawrence Colburn]] who intervened to save a number of villagers.<ref name="SmithsonianMag"/>

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At the center of the museum grounds, which is at the heart of the destroyed village, is a large stone monument. The two children to the lower right in the sculpture are modeled on the two children in one of Haeberle's photos, often called "Two Children on a Trail".<ref>{{cite web |title=Tale of children who survived My Lai massacre falls on deaf ears |url=https://e.vnexpress.net/news/life/culture/tale-of-children-who-survived-my-lai-massacre-falls-on-deaf-ears-3925046.html |author=Sen |date=2019-05-17 |publisher=VN Express |website=e.vnexpress.net |access-date=2023-06-18 |quote=As Tran Van Duc and his sister Tran Thi Ha escaped from the armed men carrying out a grisly massacre, a helicopter flew low over them. Duc threw himself on his sister to protect her. Ronald L. Haeberle, a combat photographer on duty Vietnam, captured that moment. }}</ref> The two siblings were shot and wounded, but survived.

Some American veterans choose to go on pilgrimage to the site of the massacre to heal and reconcile.<ref>Becker, Carol. [https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3558488?uid=3739864&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102588830241 "Pilgrimage to My Lai: Social Memory and the Making of Art"], ''Art Journal'', Vol. 62, No. 4, Winter, 2003.</ref>

====Mỹ Lai Peace Park====
On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, 16 March 1998, a groundbreaking ceremony for the Mỹ Lai Peace Park was held {{convert|1|mi|km|0|order=flip|abbr=on}} away from the site of the massacre. Veterans, including [[Hugh Thompson Jr.]] and [[Lawrence Colburn]] from the helicopter rescue crew, attended the ceremony. Mike Boehm,<ref>Westfall, Marilyn. [http://thehumanist.org/march-april-2009/the-humanitarian-impulse-not-%E2%80%9Cgod%E2%80%99s-work%E2%80%9D-for-this-veteran "The Humanitarian Impulse: Not 'God's Work' for this Veteran"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829215439/http://thehumanist.org/march-april-2009/the-humanitarian-impulse-not-%E2%80%9Cgod%E2%80%99s-work%E2%80%9D-for-this-veteran|date=29 August 2013}} ''The Humanist: A Magazine of Critical Inquiry and Social Concern'', March/April 2009.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref> a veteran who was instrumental in the peace park effort, said, "We cannot forget the past, but we cannot live with anger and hatred either. With this park of peace, we have created a green, rolling, living monument to peace."<ref name="CNN, March 16, 1998"/>

On 16 March 2001, the Mỹ Lai Peace Park was dedicated, a joint venture of the Quảng Ngãi Province Women's Union, the Madison Quakers' charitable organization, and the Vietnamese government.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426132721/http://www.mylaipeacepark.org/peace-parks Our Projects: Mỹ Lai Peace Park], Mylaipeacepark.org; accessed 23 February 2018.</ref>