Posted on 07/30/2024 3:38:36 AM PDT by DFG
William Calley, the army officer who was the only person to be convicted in relation to the mass murder of Vietnamese civilians, including children, in what came to be known as the My Lai massacre, has died at the age of 80.
The Washington Post on Monday first reported Calley's death, which happened in April, according to a death certificate the newspaper cited. The New York Times, citing Social Security Administration death records, also reported Calley's death.
Neither paper reported a cause of death. Calls to numbers listed for Calley's son, William L. Calley III, were not returned.
William Calley, the army officer who was the only person to be convicted in relation to the mass murder of Vietnamese civilians, including children, in what came to be known as the My Lai massacre, has died at the age of 80.
The Washington Post on Monday first reported Calley's death, which happened in April, according to a death certificate the newspaper cited. The New York Times, citing Social Security Administration death records, also reported Calley's death.
Neither paper reported a cause of death. Calls to numbers listed for Calley's son, William L. Calley III, were not returned.
William Laws Calley Jr. was born June 8, 1943, the only son and fourth child of a Miami businessman. In his youth, he went by the nickname Rusty.
He attended four high schools in four years, two of them military academies. Calley was forced to repeat the seventh grade after being caught cheating.
After he flunked out of junior college, he worked as a bellhop, dishwasher, insurance investigator and train conductor.
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Enjoy hell you genocidal demon.
Wrong. Infants and small children are not enemy combatants. You deserve the same region of hell as Calley.
LBJ was the demon who sent him there.
Hug? DEI didn’t exist in that period. Calley was shoved through OCS to fill manpower shortages. The military screwed up. Problem is, this level of incompetence was traced all the wat to the top commander of his unit.
Robert McNamara, in conjunction with LBJ, was responsible for all of this. Years later, this louse had the never to baldfacedly lie and say he was “against’ the war. The architect of the failed strategy, the body counts, the withholding of your military power can all be attributed to this arse.
My comment went right over your head. Read slowly and get help reading it if needed.
They're still butt-heart that they spawned the greatest nation the earth has ever seen, which they lost control of through mismanagement, and no longer get so much as a farthing in tribute. They're especially sensitive over their becoming a red-headed stepchild to their former colony during the Pax Americana.
Young Gaia has good features but doesn't look too happy. Hope she gets herself together.
Oops— wrong thread.
The person, even a kid, who smiled at you in the day might try to kill you that night.
Who knows who the people Calley's guys killed really were and what they really did?
Some unknown percentage were innocent, others not.
Yet the VC would do the same thing to a village that was known as supporters of the Americans and/or the S vietnamese. I wounder how many fellow soldiers this platoon came across fellow soldiers that had been disemboweled or beheaded by the VC. Every now and then everyone will reach their limit of carnage and seek retribution. There was no law on the battlefield in Vietnam. Drugs were openly used along with alcoholism, officers were fragged and friendly fire killed soldiers that may have had disagreements with others. It was a lawless battlefield for many. After killing so many enemy cong, killing came easy for some. Sort of like the saying, kill em all and let god sort em out.Not making excuses for it, but I do understand.
Some serious misallocation of blame by the DM: the pictures all say it was done by US Marines! It was all Army. There were no Marines there.
None of the officers above him were charged.
Is the number accurate of over 500 people?
He and many others involved should have been executed.
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