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...wrote Lieut. Calley a letter telling him that I am praying that he will soon be free. He fought for me and for all of us in beautiful America. He did what he thought best on the battlefield. He did not burn his draft card or say he was a conscientious objector...
...blame for any of this fiasco. I was against the war to begin with, had no opportunity within the System to halt it, was taxed without a vote to support it and am about to be forced to send two sons to murder and be murdered in it. Let Calley share the guilt with the people who sent...
...state that there is a "moral trap" in the position that Calley's guilt applies to all. For, as you reason, "if everyone is guilty, no one is guilty or responsible, and the very meaning of morality disintegrates." Christianity teaches that Christ came to forgive our sins. Would you argue that he need not have come, since at that time the whole world was in sin? Since God, not man, secures the meaning of morality, it is possible that we are all morally in the wrong...
...write hundreds of letters protesting a seal hunt, but when your Lieut. Calley goes about shooting women and children, the same Americans try to make a national hero...
...Calley trial and its aftermath of recriminations, soul searching, protests, etc., must be a good joke to Hanoi leaders, who, without any qualms, have pursued the policy of annihilation of anybody who does not agree with them...