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...communique was published following a weekend visit to Hanoi by Chinese Premier. Chou En-Lai. Chinese military leaders accompanied Chou to Hanoi...
...Dark. At about 8:30 a.m. on March 16, the men of Charlie Company were lifted by helicopter toward My Lai. "I was definitely hyper," said Calley. The men feared most the sort of minefields that had previously decimated their unit. In a minefield, Calley said, "it's kind of like being in the dark, knowing there is a step there and afraid to walk. You almost have to force every foot down...
...artillery bombardments and helicopter gunships were still propping the My Lai area when Charlie Company landed. Calley described how his men entered the village, dropping grenades into bunkers and firing to "neutralize any personnel inside any building." He said he saw many dead Vietnamese before he saw one alive. At one concrete house, "there were about six to eight individuals lying on the floor, apparently dead, and one man was going to the window. I shot him. There was another man standing in a fireplace-and I shot him. I took him as NVA cadre...
...total of 25 officers and enlisted men were charged in connection with My Lai. Last week it was announced that for failing, among other things, "to conduct a proper and thorough investigation" of the incident, Colonel Oran K. Henderson, former commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, will be tried by a general court-martial. Of those charged, all have been freed except Henderson, Calley, Medina and Captain Eugene M. Kotouc, who did not participate in the raid but is accused of having assaulted a Vietnamese during interrogation just after My Lai...
...could accept such a defense, Calley and Medina, the only actual participants still charged, could both be acquitted on the ground that they were following apparently lawful orders from Colonel Frank Barker, their task force commander, who died three months after My Lai. Thus My Lai could conceivably enter history as a massacre for which no one is legally held responsible. Calley, who is well aware that he was his own best witness at the trial, considers himself by now an expert on the horrors of war. He has said that he would some day like to make a combat...