"My Lai" (2023) The Mỹ Lai massacre  was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Between 347 and 504 civilians were killed by US soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children who were as young as 12. It is the largest publicized massacre of civilians by US forces in the 20th century.  Former Lt. William Calley, the only soldier, officer, or official ever convicted for the crime, served 3 years of house arrest at Fort Banning, Georgia. Former US President Richard Nixon received so many telegrams from Americans requesting clemency or a pardon for Calley that he remarked to Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, "Most people don't give a shit whether he killed them or not."  William Calley is a free man today, presumed to be living in Gainesville, Florida.