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...tries to whip its new all-volunteer force into shape, the U.S. Army is doing its best to rid itself of the lingering legacies of Viet Nam. Two weeks ago, Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway paroled Lieut. William L. Calley, the only man convicted for taking part in the My Lai massacre. With Calley free, Callaway last week took another calculated step toward exorcising the demon of Viet Nam. Saying he wanted "to tell it like it is," the Secretary released key parts of the Army's official inquiry into what happened at My Lai on the morning...
Discussing the attempts to hide the massacre, Secretary Callaway sounded overtones of Watergate when he said: "One man gets involved a little bit and then he begins covering his tracks, and it just goes on and on . . . It's the kind of thing that grows. Once you start that, you have to sort of have to continue...
...facts set down in the Peers report raise again the question of why so many got off so lightly. Secretary Callaway frankly confesses: "This is a story of the Army which is not a happy one. None of us is proud of it." Peers, now retired and a missile-systems consultant in California, goes further. Says he: "To think that out of all those men, only one was brought to justice. And now he's practically a hero. It's a tragedy...
Small wonder that Secretary Callaway is eager to move on. Last week he declared: "The release of this report concludes a dark chapter in the Army's history...
...threw out Calley's conviction, partly on the grounds that pretrial publicity had prejudiced his case. That set the stage for last week's double denouement: the civil courts released Calley pending the Army's appeal to uphold the conviction, and Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway paroled Calley, since he had served with good behavior a third of his sentence...