Sơn Mỹ Memorial

[4][5] A large black marble plaque just inside the entrance to the museum lists the names of all 504 civilians killed, including "17 pregnant women and 210 children under the age of 13".

[6][7] A number of enlarged versions of U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle's photos of the massacre are shown inside the museum.

[8] The images are dramatically backlit in color and share the central back wall with a life-size recreation of American soldiers "rounding up and shooting cowering villagers".

[9] The museum also celebrates American heroes, including Ronald Ridenhour, who first exposed the killings, as well as Hugh Thompson and Lawrence Colburn, who intervened to save a number of villagers.

[6] At the center of the museum grounds, which is at the heart of the destroyed village, is a large stone monument (see image), which was sculpted and donated by the Vietnamese artist Ho Thu, husband of Vo Thi Lien, one of the few survivors of the massacre; she was 13 years old at the time.