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Behind the tortuous unraveling of the American role in Viet Nam, as well as the national debate over the court-martial and conviction of Lieut. William Galley, there lies a haunting problem: well-intentioned men faithfully executing their duty as they see it can find themselves responsible for horrible events. By coincidence, in the week that the Pentagon papers emerged, Yale Law Professor Charles Reich (The Greening of America) addressed the problem in The New Yorker. Reich wrote: "Evil now comes about not necessarily when people violate what they understand to be their duty but, more and more often, when...
...scalding publicity and agonized soul searching that the U.S. Army had to endure in the case of Lieut. William Galley Jr., his trial and subsequent conviction did not penetrate the military's innermost defenses. After all, Galley was hardly one of the elite of the officer corps. He was one of those thousands of peripheral soldiers of ordinary background and average intelligence who slog their way through O.C.S., enjoy a career of tedious assignments in grubby outposts and never, never rise beyond the rank of colonel...
...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...
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...