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The Gun Owners of the Parkland Generation

The Gun Owners of the Parkland Generation

"All but one were born in the decade after Columbine; like the student gun-control advocates activated by the recent massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, most are in their teens. But the children depicted hereβ€”hunters, target shooters, competitors in trap and skeetβ€”occupy a parallel realm, where guns signify not danger, alienation, and the threat of death but safety, discipline, and trust."

A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today

A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today

"Everybody's heard of the My Lai massacre β€” March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today β€” but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot. When he arrived, American soldiers had already killed 504 Vietnamese civilians (that's the Vietnamese count; the U.S. Army said 347). They were going to kill more, but they didn't β€” because of what Thompson did."