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...even made plans to direct the first Vietnam feature, "Although it was written more than six years ago," he wrote to film historian Juliam Smith of his script, The Rifle, "it has all the ingredients of that flavor of war right up to the end--including a Calley flavor." His central character was "a symbol of war through generations--who ends up killing a Viet Cong boy--a boy he fell in love with--a boy he wanted to adopt and take back to the States--because the Army...commanded him to murder the civilian boy only because...
...even made plans to direct the first Vietnam feature, "Although it was written more than six years ago," he wrote to film historian Juliam Smith of his script, The Rifle, "it has all the ingredients of that flavor of war right up to the end--including a Calley flavor." His central character was "a symbol of war through generations--who ends up killing a Viet Cong boy--a boy he fell in love with--a boy he wanted to adopt and take back to the States--because the Army...commanded him to murder the civilian boy only because...
...author's prejudices. Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese could be wonderfully readable ("I don't deal in direct quotations," explained Talese, "I'm into what people think"). Meanwhile, Esquire's black-humor covers became intentionally outrageous, such as posing a benign Lieut. William Calley with a group of Asian children. The magazine's basic outlook, said Harold Hayes, one of its best editors, was to be "smart...
...combat when a bullet shattered his spine. "Your guilt, your hang-ups., your uneasiness made it socially unacceptable to mention the fact that we were Viet Nam veterans." Pounding his knee with a clenched fist, he accused most Americans of regarding G.I.s who fought in Indochina as "Lieut. Calley types, crazed psychos or dummies that couldn't find their way to Canada. That really hurts when you remember the pride we had. We fought hard and we fought well...
That's like asking me to remember the Alamo, where Rusty Calley killed all those Arabs...