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Thus far, Calley is the only man involved in the My Lai affair to be convicted by a court-martial. In all, 25 officers and enlisted men have been charged with various offenses in connection with the incident. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam at the time of My Lai, recently recommended administrative punishment?demotion by one grade?for Calley's division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young Jr., for failing to report the incident. General Koster was also officially censured. Those relatively minor strictures against...
Michael Brower, first vice chairman of the Massachusetts Americans for Democratic Action, spoke for those who wanted the nation's leaders put in the dock along with Calley. "The guilt of My Lai runs up the chain of command into the White House," he said. "The Army is trying to sacrifice one or two low-level officers as token scapegoats." The most extraordinary demonstration against the verdict from the antiwar side was staged in Manhattan's Wall Street by the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Smack in front of the New York Stock Exchange, a dozen veterans in fatigue...
...Calley jurors?all up-from-the-ranks officers, all combat veterans, all but one of whom fought in Viet Nam ?defended their unanimous verdict. Said Major Charles Mclntosh: "It had to be done. Somebody had to do it. We were the six." Said Major Walter Kinard: "We looked for anything that would prove Lieut. Calley innocent. We gave Lieut. Calley every benefit of doubt." Somberly Major Harvey Brown confessed: "I wanted to believe it didn't happen, that it was a hoax. I'll have to live with this verdict the rest of my life...
Only three men, all officers, still have charges pending against them. Colonel Oran Henderson, Calley's brigade commander, is accused of helping to cover up the massacre; pretrial hearings in the Henderson case began last week. Captain Eugene Kotouc, a member of Calley's task force, is charged with assault and maiming. Calley's immediate superior, Captain Ernest Medina, still faces charges of murder and assault...
...from their homes for imperative military reasons, but they must be returned as soon as local combat ends. They may not be used to protect combatants, whether by placing them inside military objectives (a Viet Cong tactic) or by forcing them to precede troops across minefields, a practice that Calley admitted to without a qualm...