Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During this time, Calley's father's business was slowing down and his mother became mortally ill with cancer. The father, a diabetic whose health was also failing, was forced to sell the family house in Miami and move to the North Carolina cabin. Rusty stayed on in Florida. Once he and Chuck Queen flew up to visit the Calleys. "He was upset about it," Queen recalls. "It was a bad situation, but Rusty kept it within him." Young Calley always seemed calm and even-tempered. "I can't ever remember him getting mad," says Rick Smith. "He never...
...started drifting west in a brand-new Buick Wildcat. He worked his way across the country to New Mexico, taking pictures of real estate for insurance appraisers from time to time. In Albuquerque in mid-1966, a month before his mother's death, he enlisted in the Army. Once in uniform, he was soon recommended for officer candidate school, commissioned a lieutenant and posted to Viet Nam. His elder sister. Mrs. Marian Keesling, of Gainesville, Fla., reports that Calley clothed and fed a little Vietnamese girl; one day he returned to find the child's house bombed and the girl...
...TIME Correspondent Ken Danforth interviewed Calley before the Army announced that the lieutenant would be court-martialed on charges of premeditated murder. Danforth saw him again at Fort Benning last week, but this time was not allowed to speak to him. "He could communicate only with a gesture of recognition," Danforth reports. "He shuffled papers nervously, trying to look busy at his practically empty desk. Under the circumstances, he seemed reasonably cheerful." Calley is attached to the staff of the deputy post commander, Colonel Talton Long, designing plans for the colonel's parking lot and working on an infantry museum...
Today's young radicals, in particular, are almost painfully sensitive to these and other wrongs of their society, and denounce them violently. But at the same time they are typically American in that they fail to place evil in its historic and human perspective. To them, evil is not an irreducible component of man, an inescapable fact of life but something committed by the older generation, attributable to a particular class or the "Establishment," and eradicable through love and revolution. In fact, the fight against evil is more complex. "Good and evil, we know, in the field of this...
...commander, who was killed after the massacre. Some observers argue that the Army hopes to convict the lowest-ranking officer who is charged in the case. All the men under him might then try to get off by claiming that they were simply following his orders, which, at the time, seemed necessary and proper in a heavily Viet Cong area...