Silas Soule
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Silas Stillman Soule was an American abolitionist, teenage conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and early example of what would later be called a "whistleblower". He is honored as
Captain Silas Soule c. 1864
The "Immortal Ten": the John Doy rescue party, 1859. Twenty-year-old Silas Soule is the second man from the right.
Silas Soule's military record (1865)
Capt. Soule (kneeling front row, far right) with Major Edward W. Wynkoop (front row, left) and Southern Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle at the Camp Weld meeting September 28, 1864.
Hugh Thompson Jr.
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Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. was a United States Army helicopter pilot, serving as a warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division. He is credited with ending the Mỹ Lai m
Silas Soule
…His letters to Walt Whitman are in the Library of Congress. Items relating to his time in Kansas are in the Kansas Historical Society collections. Hugh Thompson Jr., credited with intervening in, and later exposing, the 1968 My Lai massacre. Bensing, Tom. Silas Soule: A Short, Eventful Life of Moral Courage. Dog…
Thompson in 1966
Hiller OH-23 Raven, three-seat, light observation helicopter, similar to the one Thompson commanded during the massacre