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Such troubling reflections are reinforced by the response of Americans to the My Lai massacre in TIME'S Harris Poll on page 10. By the large majority of 65%, those who were questioned expressed the opinion that "incidents such as this are bound to happen in a war." Almost as disturbing to note are the 13% who have no opinion on My Lai. Only 22% clearly expressed moral repugnance to the idea that American soldiers may have intentionally gunned down unarmed women and children. How can such a response be explained...
...millions of adult Americans who have fought from the Argonne to Inchon and carry their own private knowledge of the necessities -and the better-forgotten brutalities -of personal combat. It would be reassuring to think that these explanations encompass the opinions of those who appear to dismiss My Lai; the alternative is to contemplate an American adaptability carried to the point of callousness and barbarism...
Surprisingly, Americans are not particularly disturbed by the disclosure that U.S. troops apparently massacred several hundred South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. By a substantial 65% to 22%, the public shrugs off My Lai, reasoning that "incidents such as this are bound to happen in a war." It also rejects by a margin of 65% to 24% the charge that My Lai proves that U.S. involvement in the war has been morally wrong all along...
...wish the people of the world who are speaking put so loudly against the U.S. presence in South Viet Nam and the incident of My Lai could see the "friendly" villagers by day and the fighting hardcore V.C. by night. I wish they could see the women and children setting booby traps and mines. I wish they could see a young child that has had his limbs cut off by V.C. terrorists. I wish they could see the good will many of our troops have spread throughout the countryside of South Viet Nam. I wish they could see the harm...
...Lai massacre has only deepened the confusion. Many Middle Americans stoutly refuse to believe that it even occurred. This was true of 49% of those polled by the Minneapolis Tribune last month. When they do believe that the massacre happened, they attribute it to battlefield error and not to the malignity of American soldiers. Middle America