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Oil on Canvas – 20″ x 24″
September, 2014

Atrocities of war can occur in and by any culture, at any time, in any place, given proper indoctrination, and those horrors can live on through generations. The My Lai massacre, in which United States “soldiers” slaughtered upwards of 504 defenseless woman and children on March 16th, 1968, is a perfect case in point, and the inspiration for this painting. These US soldiers had been convinced that even the babies were booby-trapped with grenades, and carried out their orders in such barbaric fashion that the wounds of those in Vietnam today with any ancestral connection to this tragic event, still feel fresh.