Word: hammerism
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...Hammer on the Moon...
...Dave Scott drop the hammer and feather and watch them drift slowly down and touch the moon at the same instant was worth more than all the science classes in the world [Aug. 16]. Of all the people that have ever lived, we saw it first. No doubt Galileo would be pretty proud of himself now! As for "unnecessary voyages," maybe Columbus should have been stopped...
...many members of Galley's own platoon contradicted Galley's testimony about his role in the carnage and Galley's memory of the action was so self-servingly selective that Hammer concludes flatly: "Calley lied and lied blatantly on the stand." He was also ill-advised by his attorneys, especially his civilian counsel, George W. Latimer, whose defense strategy was "confusing and confused, rambling and directionless." The defense at various times argued that: 1) there was no large-scale killing at My Lai; 2) yes, there was a lot of killing but it had been done...
Violated Conventions. Eventually, claims Hammer, the outgunned defense tried to turn the court-martial into a near trial of Galley's commander, Captain Ernest L. Medina. The defense produced soldiers who claimed that Medina had ordered the slaughter of civilians. Calley, it was argued, had no choice; he could not disobey his superior. Medina denied giving such orders, and the Army's young prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel III, was able to draw from a surprising number of defense witnesses the admission that they had disobeyed Galley's order to fire into the assembled groups of civilians...
...Hammer has a weakness for run-on sentences and rhetorical questions, and he allows his feeling of outrage...