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====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>
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