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2024-07-30 -Obits-

My Lai massacre army officer William Calley dead at 80: The only person convicted over 1968 atrocity in which US troops killed hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese died in a hospice

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-30 07:57|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 He was behind bars only three days before then President Richard Nixon ordered him released under house arrest.

Bully for Nixon!

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-07-30 13:23|| 2024-07-30 13:23|| Front Page Top

#2 He ended up in the position because the 'best and brightest' were doing their bit to avoid their civic responsibilities (unlike 20 years before).

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-07-30 13:56|| 2024-07-30 13:56|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Wasn't sarcastic P2k.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-07-30 14:22|| 2024-07-30 14:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The Viet Cong and the NVA committed similar atrocities against hostile civilians in the South. The Tet Offensive was when a tiny portion of these atrocities came to light. The dreary reality is that they were essential in order to rapidly force civilians who were aiding the enemy to switch sides. The ROKs in Vietnam used similar measures, and in so doing, rejiggered the balance of terror such that the civilians in their sector feared the Koreans more than they feared the VC. The result being that the VC learned to avoid ROK sectors because civilians there would not hide, feed or supply them, for fear of being tortured or killed by the Koreans. For whatever reason, Korean threats outweighed similar VC threats.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2024-07-30 15:11|| 2024-07-30 15:11|| Front Page Top

#5 #1 I know you weren't. He was a scapegoat. My point is such events may not have even occurred if better people were selected to fill those offices and those parents of those better people insisted that the pols win and not play f*ing games.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-07-30 15:28|| 2024-07-30 15:28|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 Yea, well, sorry. Overreacted - been there.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-07-30 15:46|| 2024-07-30 15:46|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Armed conflict may not be the only measure of a Man, but it is revelatory. Consider Hamilton Fish, William Tiffany and Woodberry Caton to mention but a few of the genuinely privileged who worried about not qualifying to be Rough Riders, and made their way to the action once they did.

Posted by Cesare 2024-07-30 16:02|| 2024-07-30 16:02|| Front Page Top

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