On November 12, freelance journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the American massacre of hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the hamlet of My Lai and the U.S. Army’s subsequent cover-up.x The story had an enormous impact, swelling the number of participants in a second and even bigger moratorium, known as the Mobilization (“the Mobe”), that began with a night-time “March Against Death” on November 13. Starting at Arlington National Cemetery, forty-six thousand people, each carrying a cardboard sign with the name of an American soldier killed in Vietnam, walked in silence
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