Word: calley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parts of this memoir that deal with My Lai are mainly taken verbatim from Lieut. Calley's trial testimony. Readers who like to see Calley as scapegoat and martyr can read again his claim that the star prosecution witnesses were lying, and reflect on the lieutenant's reassertion that at My Lai he was acting not as a responsible individual but as the blind agent of the American people. What makes the book interesting are Calley's recollections of the months before and after...
...Calley got into the Army in the first place almost by accident, when he ran out of gas and money in Albuquerque and decided to enlist. He talks in a convincing colloquial way about such things as pizza-pie-throwing contests at OCS, a one-day "wartime romance" with a Vietnamese prostitute named Yvonne, and the repeated indoctrination to kill, as well as to serve the almighty body count. According to Calley, almost nothing was said either about protecting civilians or adhering to the Geneva Convention. For three months after arriving in Viet Nam, just after the Tet offensive, Calley...
...ironic that the Calley memoir should produce funny and persuasive accounts of the frustrations that came from trooping around the rain forests of Southeast Asia. The first time he called for a full-sized field artillery strike he was bowled over. "BOOMBOOM! BOOMBOOM! And the world lit up: the house, the trees, the world was blowing away. It was a slow-motion movie of some atomic bomb, and I knew everyone in America had heard it. President Johnson! Congress...
Drawing Doodles. Galley lifts weights in his living room to keep in shape, is allowed on the lawn behind his apartment for daily exercise periods. Neighbors have seen several bags of cow manure delivered to fertilize the vegetables Calley grows in his backyard. His evening meal is occasionally prepared by Miss Moore...
...Medina of command responsibility for what went on in the ill-fated village. Relaxed and apparently unconcerned as the men who once served under him take the stand to testify for the prosecution, Medina passes his courtroom time drawing doodles of the newsmen covering his trial. As Medina and Calley await the results of the legal proceedings against them, the cases of nine other soldiers implicated in earlier investigations were closed. Five officers and four enlisted men received administrative reprimands for their roles in the massacre...