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...field." On March 16, 1968, a mimeographed release included this passage: "In an action today, Americal Division forces killed 128 enemy near Quang Ngai City. Helicopter gunships and artillery missions supported the ground elements throughout the day." Thus did the Follies announce the infamous action at My Lai...
When Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert started his war with the Army two years ago, he found a receptive audience among newsmen and the general public. It was the time of the My Lai trials, and the military was being subjected to a barrage of bad publicity. Herbert was a much-decorated professional officer whom the Army had lionized. His charges that superiors had ignored his reports of atrocities and were hounding him out of the service because of his accusations seemed highly credible. Dissenting voices (TIME, Nov. 22, 1971) received relatively little attention...
...journalists. Marsh Clark first visited Viet Nam seven years ago, later served as bureau chief, and is now back in Saigon for a brief stint. "The mark of Viet Nam is forever on me," he says. "My language is altered, my hair grayer, my eyes sadder. Hamburger Hill, My Lai, the Green Berets, assassinations, mistaken air strikes, refugees and kids with napalm burns. The U.S. may try to forget, but that will be hard...
...expansion be explained when President Nixon was making friends with the leaders of the two great Communist powers? To a country that takes pride in being practical, the Viet Nam dilemma seemed insoluble and ultimately too expensive by any reckoning. Morally expensive, as well. Too many memories, from My Lai to the massive bombing of last Christmas, would continue to weigh on the American spirit...
Above all, there is the damage to the country's self-image. One of the most persistent and persuasive observations by Viet Nam commentators has been that the war, and the revelations of My Lai, the perversity of the overdog, the abuses of power, conspired to destroy not only the sense of America's omnipotence but the sense of American guilelessness as well. And yet, how true will that prove...