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...Robert Maples, 22, a machine-gunner in the platoon and now a warehouse worker in Freehold, N.J., swore that Calley had asked him to use his machine gun on the Vietnamese. Maples said that he had refused...
...Maples' testimony. The witness conceded that Calley had not actually ordered him to fire on the civilians. He also acknowledged that he had not seen victims being struck by bullets. However, Maples observed, "the people that was in there did not come out." Charles Hall, an assistant gunner, remembered the victims with "blood coming out of all parts of their bodies. It was very red and very...
...They'll try to sock it to a brother if they can," said Pfc. Alfred Exum Jr. of Denver, an assistant gunner on a 102 howitzer in the 82nd Airborne. "Just like civilian life, the white doesn't want to see the black get ahead...
...LATE. Even though the crash enables Sonny and Gunner to throw off their parents and begin life on their own terms, you can't help but wonder what exactly it is that the heroes are beginning. What is in the pot when you go all the way to the end of the rainbow...
...only necessary to recall the decade Sonny and Gunner were inadvertently hurled into-one of political assassinations, absurd war, and tumultuous racial strife-to appreciate the futility of their journey. If you can escape one car crash, you live only to be propelled into the big new one around the corner...