Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on M.I.T.'s Howard Johnson [Nov. 21] has an undemocratic flavor. No one man cools such a potentially explosive situation. By failing to report the actions of other persons in cooling the M.I.T. scene, the story makes Howard Johnson "the winner...
...friends and relatives, the men of C Company who swept through My Lai were for the most part almost depressingly normal. They were Everymen, decent in their daily lives, who at home in Ohio or Vermont would regard it as unthinkable to maliciously strike a child, much less kill one. Yet men in American uniforms slaughtered the civilians of My Lai. and in so doing humiliated the U.S. and called in question the U.S. mission in Viet Nam in a way that all the antiwar protesters could never have done...
After Secretary Resor showed color photographs of massacre victims to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, none doubted that an atrocity had been committed. Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker described the affair as "a simplistic, deliberate act of inhumanity?one of the darkest days in American history." Near tears, Ohio's Stephen Young said he had seen a young woman begging not to be shot while a child clung to her neck and scenes of "youngsters who had been killed at close range, with their insides hanging out." He called it "an abominable atrocity...
...warfare do not adequately explain My Lai. In March of 1968, most members of C Company of the Americal Division's 11th Infantry Brigade had never been tested in direct combat with any large numbers of the enemy. Trained together in Hawaii, they had been in Viet Nam only one month. Yet as part of Task Force Barker, their assignment in March was a fearsome one: to clear the Viet Cong out of Quang Ngai province?an area long known as "the cradle of revolution" in Viet Nam. The province had produced and harbored some of the Viet Minh...
Precisely what happened next will be the subject of multiple investigations by the U.S. Army, committees of Congress and the South Vietnamese Senate. It will presumably be microscopically examined?and argued?in more than one U.S. court-martial. But enough participants have spoken up to make the general outline painfully clear...