business in Oregon, and owned and managed an Atlanta business that sells orthopedic rehabilitation equipment. Exactly thirty years later, Colburn and Thompson were awarded the Soldier's Medal, the United States Army's highest award for bravery not involving direct contact with the enemy. At the same time, a posthumous medal was also awarded to Andreotta. "It was the ability to do the right thing even at the risk of their personal safety that guided these soldiers to do what they did," then-Major General Michael Ackerman said at the 1998 ceremony. The three "set the standard for all soldiers to follow." Additionally on March 10, 1998, Senator Max Cleland (D-GA) entered a tribute to Thompson, Colburn and Andreotta into the record of the U.S. Senate. Cleland said the three men were, "true examples of American patriotism at its finest." Also in 1998, Thompson and Colburn returned to the village of My Lai, where they met some of the villagers they rescued, including Thi Nhung and Pham Thi Nhanh, two women who had been part of the group that was about to be killed by Brooks' 2nd Platoon. They also dedicated a new elementary school for the children of the village. Both Colburn and Thompson were awarded the Peace Abbey "Courage of Conscience Award" on July 4, 1999. During the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, Colburn expressed a "bad feeling" about the invasion that he felt may have touched off a much larger war than was intended. He was at Hugh Thompson's bedside when the latter died of cancer on January 6, 2006. In 2003, at a Moral Lecture Series address to midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, Colburn made the following remarks: Combat is chaotic. Combat is primal. And something surfaces in you, especially when you see people close to you fall. And it's very difficult to control. Your job as young officers is to monitor those men who are pulling the trigger to make sure that that primal instinct, you have to keep it in check somehow. For the Dedication of the Peace Park of the massacre (March 16, 2001), Colburn was reunited with Do Ba, the young child Andreotta had rescued from the ditch. "I'm very glad to see the man who rescued me," Ba said, as the two men lit incense at the graves of Ba's mother, sister and brother, who were 31, four and two when they were