Mỹ Lai 2 - The Charlie Company Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

The Mỹ Lai Massacre
Of Nineteen Sixty Eight.

Task Force Barker
was put in charge of
the search-and-destroy
operation against
the People's Army of Vietnam.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank A. Barker
ordered his troops
to burn the houses,
kill the livestock,
destroy food supplies,
and poison the wells.

Captain Ernest Medina
Headed The Charlie Company
Part of Task Force Barker
Executed the order with fervour.
Rest is history.