Lt. Calley was not convicted for losing conrol of his men at My Lai.
He was convicted of personally killing twenty-two civilians with his own weapon.
Should others have been convicted with him? Of course. But Calley was not an isolated scapegoat.
Go figure: The warrant officer helicopter pilot who interposed his aircraft between the remaining civilians and the Americal Division grunts is celebrated as a hero at the U.S. Army JAG school, even as it is well known that he was universally hated at the time for doing so.
Me, I flew helicopters in RVN 1971-72. Thank G-d I wasn’t a part of this.
They should have given him a medal for killing the so called civilians!
The interveining chopper pilot was the one that was wrong.
Kids be damned!
A good friend of mine was killed in Korea because he was stupid enough to let a little kid approach him with a paper bag asking for candy and the kid knifed him with a knife in the bag.
his buddie killed the kid but to late!