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Americans are morally outraged whenever war atrocities bubble to the surface, as they have in recent revelations of the July 1950 killing of civilians by G.I.s at No Gun Ri, South Korea [NATION, Oct. 11]. Somehow we feel that we are above this type of behavior, that we are the protectors of democracy and freedom. But we forget that in times of war, every human being is capable of behavior that would never occur in times of peace and prosperity. The My Lai massacre is a reminder of that painful past. But do isolated terrible acts make us a nation...
Secretary of State William S. Cohen announced Monday that he has asked Ernest R. May, Warren professor of American history, to join a group that will investigate American conduct in the tiny village of Nokuen-Ri during the Korean...
...group, composed of seven experts from outside the Department of Defense, will investigate allegations by South Korean villagers and American veterans that U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of innocent Korean civilians in Nokuen-Ri in the early...
After the events are investigated, the panel may examine the initial Army report on the incident to determine if any wrongdoing occurred when Nokuen-Ri was first reviewed...