Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, last year the gang from the sports cube played a Friday night game against the Penn cheerleaders at halftime of the Quaker-Crimson basketball game. After the game, we hit the sack early to get the rest we needed for Princeton the next night...
...John Sack's book focuses on Calley the individual, and it helps to dispell some of the more comforting liberal myths about the man. If we can believe that Calley is sub-normal, retarded, and robotic, we can comfort ourselves that his decisions were aberrations and that we could never be led to be like him. Sack interviewed Calley on and off for more than a hundred days, and he has constructed this book out of fragments of Calley's own sentences. Sack says in his introduction that "I liked being with Lieutenant Calley. To me he seemed sensible, intelligent...
Unfortunately, Calley is not eloquent enough--nor is the editing skillful enough--to allow the book to serve the only useful purpose it could have. Calley as an individual is not all that important in the story of the Vietnam war: but Sack's book could have helped us grapple with My Lai if it had more definitely killed the Calley mystique, and made it clear that Calley is wholly within the American experience. The book as it stands is still readily susceptible to willful misreadings such as that of Styron, who saw it as further evidence that Calley...
What is the nature of what Calley did at My Lai on one specific day? To Calley--and to Sack, who wrote an earlier book, M, on the conduct of the American infantry during operations against the people of Vietnam--it is nothing exceptional. In the book, Calley states that when he was first called in and told that he was under investigation for his actions at My Lai, he thought that the Army was referring to an operation he had taken part in six months later. If we can believe him and Sack, what we have come to think...
Calley began talking his book to Writer John Sack months before the trial and continued (with military permission) even after his confinement. The rush into print is probably due to the fact that public opinion still can influence Calley's case. Collaborator Sack has an avowed bias in Calley's favor-in fact, he still faces contempt charges for not testifying at the court-martial. Though Sack claims every word in print is Calley's own he admits, in the introduction, to asking more questions (10,000) than there are sentences in the book. With...