Word: wille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Perhaps the horror-filled memory of My Lai will awaken more of us to the belated knowledge that no nation has a monopoly on goodness, truth, honor and mercy-all the virtues habitually ascribed to Americans, and particularly the American soldier.
We are only human beings, and the fittest will survive. Please stop playing with ideals and words, and be prepared, for "something rather dark and bloody" may happen someday in the States, and it won't even be World War III.
Sir: Only effete snobs and impudent fools (or is it the other way around?) will blame clean-living American dropouts for the shooting of four-year-old children in My Lai. It needs little reflection to realize that they would have been full-grown and battle-hardened Viet Cong by...
Sir: In war the average man will commit atrocities whether he be American, Asian, German, British, Israeli or Arab. War-not the morality of an individual man-should be the subject of all this misplaced soul-searching.
If more people do not realize where the real blame lies instead of looking for scapegoats and excuses, if more do not condemn this and every war, then this whole mass post-mortem will have been in vain.