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Kronos Quartet/ Rinde Eckert / Van-Anh Vo Vanessa - My Lai Release:My Lai Smithsonian Folkways romantic or thrillingly vibrant' (TheOn March 16, 1968, the United States Army killed over 500 unarmed civilians in the hamlet of M? Lai, Vietnam. The unimaginable brutality of the event impacted all those who witnessed it firsthand, including helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson, who, against orders, intervened to save Vietnamese lives. Thompson's story is the basis of the opera M? Lai, composed by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) for Kronos Quartet, Vietnamese