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...destroy" from the division's official vocabulary and suggesting the use of other phrases that would "give the reader no basis for assuming a lack of compassion on the part of members of this command." Indeed, compassion was not completely absent at My Lai. Immediately after the slaughter, G.I.s found two survivors, little girls. They fed the children and delivered them safely to neighboring Vietnamese...
Certainly, that's a legitimate goal. But there's a difference between a victory and a slaughter, between a game and a war; and it's an important one. The ideal should be wide participation, not enormous margins of victories and an impressive set of statistics. Blackman always made a point this Fall of stating that everyone got a chance to play in most games, but being on the field for two minutes at the end of the fourth quarter barely qualifies as playing...
...turned back to the captain. Though the agents apparently found little that was damning in his background, they formed the theory that MacDonald and his wife Colette had had a violent argument over his younger daughter's bed wetting and that the angry words ended in the slaughter. Then MacDonald ripped up the house and, being a doctor, added a few careful stab wounds to those already inflicted by his wife as she fought back. The CID's chief reasons for accusing MacDonald seemed to be its view that 1) there was no firm physical evidence...
...specially poignant moment in the already emotion-charged trial of Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. For most of an afternoon and the following morning, Thomas Turner, the prosecution's 34th and next to last witness, had described in measured tones how Calley had directed and participated in the slaughter of scores of women, children and old men. Turner was a fireteam leader in Calley's platoon at My Lai. His testimony had been the most damaging thus far, methodically lacing together the events described by earlier witnesses. But as he left the stand, Turner approached Calley and placed...
Given such grossness, why should Little Big Man be counted as a rambunctious triumph? Because in its 360° scope of slaughter and laughter, the film has contrived to lampoon, revere or revile the length and breadth of the entire frontier. On the trek, it demonstrates inconsistencies and errata. For months audiences will be talking about them. It also accomplishes that rarest achievement, the breathing of life into an ossified art form. The '70s has its first great epic. Blood brother to the 1903 one-reeler, The Great Train Robbery, Little Big Man is the new western to begin...