Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army, charges of murdering "approximately 100" civilians at My Lai were preferred against one of C Company's platoon leaders, 1st Lieut. William Laws Calley Jr., a 26-year-old Miamian now stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. Last week Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, a 29-year-old career man from St. Francisville, La., became the second My Lai veteran to be charged (with assault with intent to commit murder). The Army has another 24 men (15 of whom are now civilians) under investigation. If the accounts of others who have spoken out publicly stand up, C Company, as Ridenhour...
...said Bernhardt, but "the rest couldn't quite understand what was going on." Sergeant Terry saw a young C Company soldier train an M-60 on the first group of huddled villagers, "but the kid just couldn't do it. He threw the machine gun down." Another man picked...
...reason for leaving. Except for a few months' leave, Lodge has seen little of his family, which includes two married sons and ten grandchildren, since he became President Kennedy's Ambassador to Viet Nam in 1963. "I am not a diplomat. I am a family man, and I miss my family," Lodge explained. Lodge probably would have stayed on if he had seen any sign of movement in the talks. An exponent of the theory that the war will fade away rather than end with a formal settlement, he became convinced that the Communists have no desire...
...family was the realization of Joe Kennedy's dreams of glory. "The measure of a man's success in life," said the founding father, "is not the money he's made. It's the kind of family he's raised." Joe Kennedy amassed a fortune of some $400 million (see box, p. 23), but he was also an astonishing success as a progenitor. Yet the patriarch's glory was brief. One day last week was the sixth anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination. Another would have been Robert Kennedy's 44th birthday...
...fathers have ever set out so deliberately to found a political dynasty-although the Kennedys were too close together to be called dynastic. The denouement of his dream was especially bitter for a man whose tough pride in name and faith in success amounted almost to hubris. For most of the decade of his sons' triumphs, he was paralyzed and speechless following a stroke the year after Jack's inauguration...