Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Army's slow-moving and presumably painstaking investigation into the killing of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai is beginning to climb the chain of command. The Army charged Lieut. William L. Calley Jr., leader of a platoon that swept through the village on March 16, 1968, with the murder of 102 people. Three enlisted men in Galley's unit were also accused. Last week Calley's immediate superior at the time, Captain Ernest Medina, commanding officer of C Company in the American Division's 11th Infantry Brigade, was charged with murdering four civilians and assaulting...
...question of a possible attempt to quash the incident is another issue. The chain of command went from Calley to Medina, then to Lieut. Colonel Frank A. Barker Jr., who has since died in combat. Barker's boss was Colonel Oran Henderson, then commander, 11th Infantry Brigade, which was under Major General Samuel Koster, the Americal Division commander, who is now superintendent at West Point. It seems likely that the full Peers report will not be released and that no other trials will be held until after Calley's court-martial, which...
...making sculptures out of the burlap itself draped over metal armatures. He quickly became handy with a needle and thread, still chuckles over the fact that when thieves recently broke into his studio, they walked off with his old secondhand Singer sewing machine and ignored his sculptures (which command...
Blest be the Muses who up-reared this band, Blet be the men who lend a willing hand, Blest be its members whom its laws command, And damn's be all others who would its cause withstand...
...clear conscience I cannot participate in the Vietnam war in any form. I cannot squeeze the trigger that would unjustly take another life; I cannot command others to do so. I cannot participate in any way in a military organization where such things are being done," he wrote...