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...powers that had created My Lai gladly left Calley to symbolize their way of war. The Army which fights with nauseating gas, white phosphorus, napalm, fragmentation bombs, and dum-dum bullets tried and convicted Calley. Medina was acquitted, Koster was reprimanded, Henderson will get off: Johnson, Rostow, Bundy, and MacNamara are above suspicion. In the center is Rusty Calley...
...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-a charge that might have been brought against Medina with better results...
...scapegoat of Calley. It would leave itself open to a charge of whitewashing if it dropped the Donaldson affair without a trial. Besides, the man behind the investigation is General William Westmoreland; the flinty Chief of Staff has announced that "the system is on trial." Brigadier General Samuel Koster, Americal Division commander at the time of My Lai, has already been reduced to his present rank on Westmoreland's recommendation. Many ranking officers are up in arms over Westmoreland's inquisition. Says a friend and brother officer of Donaldson: "He is the least likely man to have knowingly...
Before My Lai, Koster had an outstanding military record. He had commanded an infantry battalion in Europe in World War II and had served with the Eighth Army in Korea. His fellow officers were clearly unhappy with his treatment. They argued that he was only following the old Army practice of protecting his men. But Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor, who handed down the punishment just before he 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...
...Koster left his post as superintendent of West Point last year when he was charged with dereliction of duty. Later, criminal charges against him were dropped because there was no evidence that he had deliberately intended to cover up the massacre. When informed of his demotion, Koster broke silence to call the punishment "unfair and unjust...