Eric Takabayashi wrote:

> > > Do you recall the reaction (or should I say, lack of reaction)?
> >
> > If by "lack of reaction", you mean public outcry when the events came to
> > light, then yes I do.
>
> I mean how the men who risked their lives to stop the slaughter were also considered
> traitors and forgotten for 30 years, or how even the only man convicted of
> wrongdoing, enjoyed a degree of public support and was given favorable treatment
> because of the President.

Here Mike, is one account of the reaction (or should I say, lack of reaction) to "HOW
the My Lai Massacre was stopped" (emphasis yours), your actual question:

http://tinyurl.com/65al8

"For years, the U.S. military tried to cover up the My Lai massacre. And Hugh Thompson
was treated not as a hero, but as a traitor. But this past March, all that changed for
Thompson, at a special ceremony in Nashville, Tenn."

"It was a night Thompson never dreamed would happen. For years, he'd been treated as an
outcast, a turncoat, because he had dared to question his fellow American GIs who said
they were just following orders."

30 years, Mike, is what it took the US to recognize the three (two surviving) men who
stopped the My Lai Massacre, "credited with saving the lives of at least ten Vietnamese
civilians", according to npr:

http://tinyurl.com/6dhew

Ten.

That's right, Mike. One of the men who risked their lives to stop the slaughter,
threatening to turn their guns on their own comrades, "never dreamed" he would be
recognized as a hero. He was instead treated as "an outcast, a turncoat". "For years,
the U.S. military tried to cover up the My Lai massacre. And Hugh Thompson was treated
not as a hero, but as a traitor."

THAT is the reaction to "HOW the My Lai Massacre was stopped". THAT is how Thompson has
had to live for 30 years, while Lt. Calley, by what I have read, was married and lives
a normal life, working, by various accounts, as an insurance salesman or at his father
in law's store.