Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, Freeman himself will not use the pool in Little Hunting Park; though he can seek damages, he is now a U.S. agricultural aide in Tokyo. Sullivan has leased the house to another Negro. Air Force Sergeant James L. Malloy, but he hesitates to join the club. "There is a very unhealthy atmosphere here," says Malloy, "and I know my children won't be welcome at the pool...
When I was in Viet Nam, our battalion had a young sergeant who had been first on a battle scene where he discovered half a dozen Americans hanging upside down, tied through the ankles like deer, and castrated. The V.C. had attempted to skin their "war prisoners" like we skin animals. Cuts circled their wrists, ankles and thighs from the futile attempts. Yet I do not recall any uproars about the atrocities...
...There must've been six or seven of them firing," said Sergeant Daniel Groth, leader of the raid. "I asked everyone to lay down their ammunition and throw up their hands. A voice came from the back and said, 'Shoot it out,' and with this, they resumed fire. If 200 shots were exchanged, that would've been nothing...
TIME Correspondent Burt Pines relates the case of a sergeant on patrol who suddenly shouted: "A three-day pass for whoever gets that gook." After a moment's hesitation, most of the patrol opened up with their M16s, ripping an old man, as well as the child he carried, into pieces...
...commit an atrocity? According to the U.S. Manual for Courts-Martial, he is justified in not following an order if "a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal." The trouble is that such echoes of Nürnberg are drowned out by every drill sergeant's most basic lesson-instant obedience. Under military law, in fact, a man who refuses to follow an order is presumed guilty of this offense until he proves that the order was illegal at his subsequent court-martial. Disobedience in combat is even riskier. More than one soldier...