NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died early Friday. He was 62. Thompson, whose role in the 1968 massacre did not become widely known until decades later, died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Alexandria, hospital spokesman Jay DeWorth said.

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The president and chief executive officer of Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, a Baltimore County-based civil engineering firm, is donating $1 million to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

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