“Sounds like you might have a case of PTSD over something you read about in our glorious, unbiased press.”
If I do have PTSD, I have a reason. Unlike you, I was in Vietnam. I also knew CW2 Hugh Thompson and I served under MG Peers when he was the 4th ID CG. Both honorable men.
“Sounds” to me like you are defending both the actions of LT Calley and his men, and the cover-up conducted by the command of the 23rd Infantry Division (Americal). Despicable.
Wrong! I was there in ‘67-’68 at Phu Bai and points north around Dong Ha, Khe Sahn, some south around Danang, An Hoa, etc. With 1stMAW, MAG36, a gunship pilot in a Marine gunship squadron. And, I am proud of every minute of my service, unlike you obviously are. You seem to me to exemplify exactly what the “glorious and unbiased” media’s goal is, i.e., to disparage everything/anything that the U.S. armed forces do a la Abu Ghraib(fraternity pledge initiation hazing); Gitmo(paradise for a bunch of terrorists); Haditha(looking more and more like nothing there)until they have destroyed support for US efforts.
And, if you think the fact that ,35-40 years after an event of My Lai’s nature, I am not still crying about it equates to defense of whatever happened there, go ahead. I didn’t have anything to do with. It happened, and I’m not going to cry about it. I did my job and would do so again given the opportunity; but, the Marine Corps won’t re-up a 64 year old former helo gunship pilot for Iraq.