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Even before the court-martial was convened at Fort Benning in 1971, fairness loomed as the major problem. The My Lai massacre had been the most widely publicized military atrocity in U.S. history. Lieut. William Calley was the only defendant convicted, though 25 of his superiors and subordinates had been...
From West Point to Korea, from the Pentagon to Viet Nam, he answered every call to duty. Then Richard Nixon called him one day when Haig, at the time a four-star general and Army vice chief of staff, was visiting Fort Benning. Haldeman and Ehrlichman, about to be thrown...
Inside the bunker, Brigadier General Ali Hussein, the Syrian sector commander, offered us tea and baklava. Hussein, who spent one year training in the U.S. at Fort Benning, explained that in former days "the Arabs and Jews lived with each other. They used to love each other. But then came...
Sir / There are those of us in the professional officers' corps who view Mr. Galley (I cannot bring myself to call him lieutenant) as what he is: a convicted mass murderer. I was appalled when he was sentenced to only 20 years and angered when he was allowed to...
When U.S. District Court Judge J. Robert Elliott abruptly ended the 35-month confinement of Army Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. last week, the judge observed that he saw "no likelihood" that Calley would flee. Why should he? Under the terms of his sentence, he was comfortably confined to his...