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...held in a farmhouse, though "no one would have been able to distinguish the bodies of those Germans from the ones already lying on the cold December ground outside." Mulliken, like most combat veterans, can understand how bystanders often become casualties during fierce fighting. This fact cannot justify My Lai, he feels, because neither the victims nor anyone else offered resistance...
...hostile reaction ranged across the political spectrum. War critics on the left saw in Galley's conviction for slaying old men, women and children in My Lai in 1968 fresh proof of the immorality of the entire Viet Nam involvement. The war's supporters on the right read in the verdict a repudiation of the valor and honor of all American fighting men in Viet Nam. If the alliance was odd, the effect might be odder still. It was too soon to be certain, but there was seemingly a new readiness, born of disgust and weariness on both...
Even after months of grisly testimony, the jury's stern judgment came as a shock. It was as though the verdict had finally brought the ultimate horror of My Lai home to Americans, and acceptance of that horror was agonizing. The widespread initial reaction to My Lai?that no American soldier could have done such a thing?in many cases changed to the notion that Calley had only been doing his duty. In a new book called Sanctions for Evil, the title of one chapter sardonically sums up the horrendous confusion: "It Never Happened and Besides They Deserved It." With...
Calley, 27, was convicted Monday by a military jury at Ft. Benning, Ga., of the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese old men, women and children at My Lai. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor...
Medina quickly added that he believed the atrocities at My Lai to be "isolated incidents," and that he was not advocating the punishment of his superior officers who have already been exonerated...