Section Ⅲ Lesson 2 & Lesson 3 — Prereading ADo Chuc is a fortyeightyearold① Vietnamese farmer whose two daughters and an aunt were killed by American soldiers in My Lai that day②
He and his family were eating breakfast when③ the American soldiers entered the village and ordered them from their homes
Together with④ other villagers they were marched⑤ a few hundred metres into the village square where they were told to sit
“Still we had no reason to be afraid⑥,” Chuc remembers
“Everyone was calm
We'd seen it all before
” Then, in surprise⑦ he watched as the soldiers set up⑧ a machine gun
The calm ended
The people began weeping⑨ and begging
One man showed his identification papers to a soldier, but the American simply said,“Sorry
” Then the shooting⑩ started
Chuc was wounded in th