Word: galley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resigned last week, maintained that Koster had evidence that possible war crimes had been committed at My Lai, and it was his professional duty to make a report. Koster did in fact inquire into the incident. He asked Colonel Oran Henderson, commander of the brigade that included Lieut. William Galley's Charlie Company, to fill him in. Henderson is being tried by court-martial for failing to make a proper report...
...Part of the outcry and the anguish over William Galley's conviction for multiple murders at My Lai came from the sense of many Americans that the young lieutenant was only a scapegoat. Punish sergeants, lieutenants, perhaps captains, but let the big brass alone. The Nixon Administration and the U.S. Army are troubled and embarrassed by that sentiment. Partly as a result, there is one big figure who is unlikely to get away without a murder charge...
...opinion, Lieut. Galley represents the tens of thousands of Americans who in the past have gone to foreign lands and waters to defend this country and the things for which it stands. As a World War II veteran, I know war is not pleasant. But to punish Lieut. Galley for carrying out his basic mission-to seek out and destroy the enemy-is wrong...
...Lieut. Galley's conviction and sentence are permitted to stand, these actions will most surely destroy the necessary fighting spirit of our armed forces...
AFTER the wrenching ordeal of the Galley affair, it was time for a moment of vernal exuberance. The sap was running in Vermont, where farmers have tapped the sugar maples and the stuff is flowing through plastic tubing directly from the trees to the sugarhouses. Detroit's Belle Isle Park and the banks of the Charles River in Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap...