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...William Calley at My Lai was free-willed, responsible, culpable and individually guilty. There, I said it. True, as you say in your review of my book The Man-Eating Machine [Oct.22] I wrote: "Calley was nothing but a brass instrument that it [the massacre order] was trumpeted through." But the sentence states that it seemed that way to Calley...
Jeff Golan, number one on the Harvard team and formerly ranked number two in New England, managed only one win. However, Anders Carlsson and Shang Lai Kung provided the Crimson with victory edge by winning two of their three close matches...
...result was 60 tape-recorded hours of Galley's own words about truth, military honor and My Lai, a virtual confession that resulted in a controversial magazine article, a book and even a subpoena, when the Army tried to get hold of the tapes...
Sack, also the author of M, was not out to hang little "Rusty" Calley with his own words. Quite the opposite. The intention was to show that Calley was what Sack now calls a "brass instrument" through which the order to execute My Lai villagers was trumpeted. The blame is then pinned on The System, of course...
...Viet Nam." He is thus viewed as a loyal robot unable to make moral distinctions, while at the same time Sack tells us about Calley's intelligence and honor. Few readers are likely to swallow such contradictions. Despite Sack's intent to exculpate Calley, the My Lai triggerman (still confined to base at Fort Benning) comes across as a very shrewd robot, cynically using the truth to embarrass the Army and deflect his own guilt...