Calley maintains that he was following orders from his superior
Calley maintains that he was following orders from his superior
Site of My Lai massacre
Good. No one can move on until guilt is acknowledged. The US response to this is one of the things that clearly separates them from their rivals.
The SOB should have been hung for a war crime, so should anyone in his chain of command that “approved” it.
Of course you can’t ignore McNamara and Project 100,000 which put a bunch of people in the Army who had no business being there, but Calley had the responsibility to tell his solders to cease fire and not fire on unarmed civilians.
This whole mess was inexcusable and more heads should have rolled.
“Calley maintains that he was following orders from his superior”
Following illegal orders is never a defense.
Why did Nixon commute his sentence?
>>”Calley maintains that he was following orders from his superior.”
In fairness, that line is a picture caption, not a direct quote. It is unlikely that there was a professional journalist at the Kiwanis meeting. Probably, an ordinary, untrained citizen (maybe a Lib with an axe to grind) reported what he remembered hearing. Then some twit in england, who got it third hand, and was more interested in sensation than accuracy or fairness, wrote the caption.
DG