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During the trial Calley admitted firing into a drainage ditch filled with Vietnamese captives but insisted that everything he did at My Lai on the morning of March 16, 1968, was under the orders of his company commander, Captain Ernest Medina. Medina is currently awaiting court-martial on similar charges at Ft. McPherson...
...government had charged Calley with premeditated murder of not less than 30 Vietnamese along a trail in My Lai and of more than 70 villagers in a drainage ditch just east of the small hamlet. The jury found him guilty on both counts, but reduced the number of victims to not less than one in the first incident and not less than 20 in the second...
...Twice during the morning, said Calley, Medina radioed him, demanding that he hurry and "get rid of" or "waste" the Vietnamese so that the attack could press forward. At one point, said Calley, "I broke out in a clearing, and my men had a number of Vietnamese in a ditch and were firing upon them." According to the charges, there were at least 70 men, women and children killed at the ditch, but Calley estimated the number last week at from four to 15. He conceded that he joined in firing into the ditch. Ex-Private Paul Meadlo has testified...
Calley also denied a charge that he seized a child by the arm, threw him into the ditch and shot him. He claimed that the entire day he did not expend one full M-16 ammunition clip, customarily loaded with 18 rounds. "I felt then and I still do," Calley concluded, "that I acted as I was directed and that I carried out the orders that I was given, and I do not feel wrong in doing so, sir." Meadlo testified earlier that at the ditch alone, Calley used 10 to 15 clips...
...direction, which features bodies dragged through a ditch of urine and a man plunked face down in a John, makes one doubt that Mankiewicz ever saw, much less made, All About Eve-or, for that matter, Cleopatra...