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...desperate heat of the crowded South Carolina school auditorium, Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon, U.S.M.C., seemed as cool and unmoving as a glacier. Under the glare of publicity unknown in a U.S. court-martial since Billy Mitchell's day, he sat silent among his seven whispering, paper-rustling defense lawyers. His bony hands were clasped, his gaunt face was impassive. To the right, in a jury box, were the seven members of the court-martial, six Marine officers and a Navy doctor. On the dais in front, the court's law officer, Navy Captain Irving Klein, surveyed...
...finishing up my two-year tour with Uncle Sam, and therefore I had a great deal of interest in your version of the Parris Island tragedy [April 23]. The article was excellent. Sergeant McKeon made a "stupid mistake," but perhaps the real tragedy is the preparation, and the fighting of war itself. ROBERT M. PALMER Long Island City...
...commandant and the commander of the Parris Island barracks should be booted from the Corps because the responsibility is squarely on their shoulders for allowing Mc-Keon to be a group leader of men. McKeon, who is obviously a misfit, is to be pitied CHARLES M. WATSON Brookhaven, Miss...
Where were the lieutenants, captains, majors and colonels who were McKeon's superiors? They are the real culprits. General Pate should have been above placing the blame on a four-stripe sergeant...
King Christophe, mad dictator of Haiti, once had a formation of his troops march off the high walls of his fortress to their death to test their obedience. Unlike Sergeant McKeon, the King did not go with his men-perhaps because he realized "he had never been in the area before...