America in 1968.

An Indignant Generation." With all its disruptions and rage, the idea of black revolution was something many white Americans could at least comprehend, if not agree with. When rebellion seized their own children, however they were almost completely at a loss. A product of the posts war "Baby Boom," nurtured in affluence and concentrated in increasing numbers on college and university campuses. It was a generation marked by an unusual degree of political awareness and …showed first 75 words of 2094 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2094 total…a dozen U.S. soldiers in the process of murdering unarmed women, children, and old men. He landed his helicopter between a group of nine villagers hiding in a bunker and a line of U.S. soldiers advancing on them. Hugh Thomson, ordering his door-gunner, Lawerence Colburn, to shoot if necessary, coaxed the Vietnamese out and had them airlifted to safety. "There were many helicopters," recalls survivor Pham Thi Nhanh. The only one that helped.