Word: destroys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they deliberately slay so many defenseless civilians? West claims that the orders read to them by the company commander, Captain Medina, were "to destroy Pinkville and everything in it." Another member of the company, Lenny Lagunoy, 25, said Medina had told them to "kill everything that moves." "Well, hell," adds Meadlo, "I was just following the orders of my officer like any good soldier?what's the good of having officers if they've nobody to obey them?" More thoughtfully, he explains: "It just seemed like it was the natural thing to do at the time. My buddies had been...
...cite greater or more frequent crimes than Pinkville. But one massacre is more than enough. My Lai is a warning to America that it, like other nations, is capable of evil acts and that its idealistic goals do not always correspond to its deeds. "Those whom the gods would destroy," wrote the late Thomas Merton, poet and monk, "they first make mad-with self-righteous confidence and unquestioning self-esteem." In the light of My Lai, Americans have little cause for feeling self-righteous, and much reason for self-reflection. The massacre may be only one betrayal of American ideals...
...serve Western bourgeois masters and send their works there through secret channels. Soviet men of letters want to get rid of them." In equating Solzhenitsyn with Colorado beetles, Sholokhov reminded some Soviet citizens of the episode in which Moscow accused the U.S. of introducing the pests into Russia to destroy its crops...
Nixon also unequivocally promised that the U.S. would never employ germ warfare-not even in retaliation-and would destroy its present stockpiles of weapons...
...only way that we're going to be people is when we destroy-when we kill! They think that we're trying to destroy the people of the world and that means yes-that we're trying to move white youth to armed struggle-that's what we're doing here," the Weatherwoman added...