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...observed two trends in recent years: TIME'S audience has become increasingly concerned with serious issues in the news, and the letters are generally more thoughtful and balanced than in the past. In 1971, the biggest magnet for mail was the trial and conviction of William Galley; the Pentagon papers case and the "Jesus Revolution" cover story ranked second and third. Many readers took a stand on the Galley court-martial outcome, supporting the verdict, 649 to 422. Sentiment concerning the Pentagon papers case was more closely divided, with those favoring the disclosure of the classified material slightly outnumbering...
That is dismaying enough in the face of the evidence presented at Galley's court-martial. What is still more worrisome, though, is a conclusion drawn by researchers that indicates a national social malaise. Americans toward the lower end of the economic scale felt most strongly that Calley was only rightfully following orders. Their judgment, says Professor Herbert Kelman, one of the scholars who prepared the study, "reflects their whole relationship to society, the feeling that they are pawns, not independent agents." Kelman thinks that this self-assessment by poorer Americans is accurate: "In reality they are not their...
...commander of the Americal Division's llth Infantry Brigade just one day before the assault on My Lai. Two days later, after hearing reports from helicopter pilots of indiscriminate killing in the hamlet, Henderson visited Medina in the field. Medina was commander of Charlie Company and Lieut. William Galley's immediate superior. Although Medina's platoon leaders had told him that at least 106 Vietnamese had been killed, Medina told Henderson that the casualties had numbered just 20 to 28 civilians-all killed by artillery and helicopter gunship fire. Testified Medina: "I didn't tell...
Spectacular Mistake. Throughout its existence the division behaved as though plagued by some unknown malignancy. Most notoriously, there were Lieut. William Galley Jr. and the Americal's Task Force Barker at My Lai. In 1969 men of the Americal's Alpha Company balked at orders to advance on NVA positions. Later followed the discovery of the Americal's use of the defoliant Agent Orange after it had been banned by the Defense Department. This spring came the massacre at Fire Base Mary Ann, where enemy sappers ravaged the outpost, killing 33 and wounding 76 of 200 Americans...
...date, only one man, Lt. William Galley, has been convicted for participation in the My Lai massacre, and he will now be the only one. Of the 25 officers and enlisted men who were originally charged with either sharing in the killings or covering them up, only six have come to trial, and four have been acquitted-though the division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, was demoted one star, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young, was reprimanded. The only man still on trial is Colonel Oran Henderson, who is charged with suppressing the affair instead of informing his superiors...