Healing the Wounds of the My Lai Massacre: From 1968 through 2018

Gilman Halsted and Norman Stockwell will present “Healing the Wounds of the My Lai Massacre: From 1968 through 2018” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 8, at Zion Lutheran Church, Stratford. Their talk is part of the History Speaks in Your Town series presented by the Marathon County Historical Society and the Continuing Education office of UW-Stevens Point at Wausau. Fifty years after the My Lai Massacre, memorials and peace parks have replaced the burned out homes of villagers who were gunned down by U.S. soldiers. The massacre and subsequent cover-up by the U.S. Army became the biggest scandal of the Vietnam War. Since then, efforts toward bringing healing to the My Lai area have included building two peace parks and development projects organized by the Madison Quakers Inc that have built three schools and established micro loan funds for women. Speakers Halsted and Stockwell have visited Vietnam and reported for U.S. media about the massacre and about the peace and reconciliation projects. Halsted is a retired Wisconsin Public Radio reporter who lives in Madison. Stockwell is the publisher of The Progressive magazine. This talk is free and open to the public. Donations are appreciated. Registration is not required. The Historical Society is grateful to Janke Book Store and to Compass Properties for their sponsorship of the History Speaks series, and to the Murco Foundation and the Larry and Elsie Lohr Fund for their support for History Speaks In Your Town. For more information, please call the Marathon County Historical Society at 715-842-5750.