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...would have guessed three years ago that the straight and narrow pathway to success and admiration for a man named William Calley [Feb. 15] would be through his connection with the wholesale slaughter of 102 human beings...
...Strange that 1 found humor in your article "The Hero Calley," even as I almost choked to death from indignation...
Certainly Calley is innocent until proven guilty. Assuming he was a terribly mixed-up soldier acting in a very irrational manner, or that he was an eager-to-please young officer following the orders of a mad superior-neither of these would qualify him for hero status. To place him on a pedestal and deluge him with fan mail is to me incomprehensible...
...reminds me of the old westerns with the Vietnamese replacing the Indians and Calley the Cavalry...
Sachs called the trial of First Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. "scapegoating," saying, "He may be some kind of homicidal pervert-I don't know-but if he is, the Army picked him to take all the blame. There are a whole jot of people who have done the same shit Calley did and thought it was the best thing for their country...