WITNESS: Thirty seconds after the shooting stopped, I knew that I was going to do something about it, said Jamie Henry, who saw many civilians killed. (Damon Winter / LAT)
LEGACY OF LOSS: A hat lies in the mud in modern-day Vietnam. Archives describe recurrent attacks on ordinary Vietnamese by a violent minority of troops in every Army division in Vietnam. (Damon Winter / LAT)
VINDICATED AT LAST: Jamie Henry, now a logger in California, was among members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War whom the government worked to discredit. But military investigators substantiated his accounts of war crimes. (Damon Winter / LAT)
NEW PERSPECTIVE: We cant change current practices unless we acknowledge the past, says retired Brig. Gen. John H. Johns, a Vietnam veteran who served on the war crimes task force and once supported keeping the records secret. (Damon Winter / LAT)
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LOOKING BACK: We could have court-martialed them but didnt, retired Lt. Gen. Robert G. Gard says of soldiers accused of war crimes. (Damon Winter / LAT)
