The Washington monthly's Monthly Journalism Award.

• Position: Brief Article

Michael D. Sallah and Mitch Weiss

"Burried Secrets, Buried Truths" The Toledo Blade October 21-23, 2003

Sallah and Weiss spent eight months uncovering some of the most frightening events of the Vietnam War to emerge in decades: During a seven month spree in 1967, a vicious, elite American army unit called "Tiger Force," killed more than 80 unarmed Vietnamese civilians, in some cases mutilating and torturing them. In the 1970s, the Army had investigated the incidents and found 18 soldiers had committed atrocities, but declined to charge anyone, Sallah and Weiss discovered. Now, the Blade's investigation has prompted the Pentagon to reopen the case.

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