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...evenings he holds forth from his favorite spot behind the padded bar in the corner of the living room, or demonstrates his culinary talents in the cramped kitchen. Calley learned to cook in Viet Nam, where "I used to tell about six guys to give me their K rations and I'd fix us up a banquet if they'd dig my foxhole for me. I'd pull wild onions out of the ground and somebody would come along with a rabbit or a chicken, and I'd make us a feast over an open fire." One day recently...
...outgoingness, the high spirits, are not to be confused with braggadocio. The stigma of being called a war criminal, the 19 agonizing months of facing charges for premeditated murder, have taken their toll. When the Army first charged him, Calley went into a deep depression. "After about a month," he explains, "I just faced myself and asked, Do you want to quit living?' At worst, t knew I had one year left, and I decided I wanted to do something before 1 die. I decided I would look other people in the eye again...
...Though Calley has made no effort to travel incognito, sallies outside the confines of Fort Benning have been painful. "Sometimes, like in airports," he says, "I can feel everybody staring at me. I have stages of feeling very paranoid. The psychological testing showed I was paranoid, but hell, there are people trying to kill...
...Calley has also developed a mortal fear of accidental death, not for the usual reason but because the world might think he was a coward who took his own life. "If I got killed in my car on the way to Atlanta," he explains, "everyone would think Calley copped out. I had a room in Delmonico's Hotel in New York once with a floor-to-ceiling window. I was afraid to go to sleep at night because I thought I might sleepwalk through one of those 18th-floor windows and everybody would think Calley committed suicide...
Despite such stresses, Calley has demonstrated throughout a remarkable restraint, a stiff refusal to lapse into bitterness. He refuses to hate the Army or the country, or even the man trying to take away his life and freedom. At midtrial, Calley said of the Army prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel: "He's just doing his job." When Daniel ended the trial with a devastating, impassioned plea for conviction, Calley remarked afterward and with obvious sincerity: "I think he did a great...