Lawrence Colburn
Age: 67
Summary: Vietnam
War veteran and helicopter gunner who was the last surviving member of
a three-man U.S. Army helicopter crew that ended the My Lai massacre on
March 16, 1968 and became an 18-year-old American hero when he
intervened with two comrades to halt the massacre of hundreds of
unarmed Vietnamese civilians by United States soldiers in 1968
elevating an innocuous hamlet named My Lai into a watchword for the
horrors of war, who along with former U.S. Army helicopter pilot Hugh
Thompson, Jr. (d. 2006) were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in
2001 for their actions and received the Soldier's Medal, the highest
U.S. military award for bravery not involving conflict with the enemy.
Cause of Death: Liver cancer
Born: July 6, 1949
Died: December 13, 2016
Location: Canton, Georgia
