{"id":9258,"date":"2020-03-16T10:29:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:29:59","slug":"march-16-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9258","title":{"rendered":"March 16, 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars and Stripes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Calley led one of Charlie Company\u2019s three platoons and was responsible for numerous killings himself, was the only soldier convicted of a crime at My Lai. He was sentenced to life in prison but served only three days because President Richard Nixon ordered his sentence reduced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

National Museum US Army<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This article examines what really happened in the \u201cMy Lai Incident,\u201d or the \u201cMy Lai Massacre\u201d as it is sometimes called. It will then look at the court-martial of Lieutenant Calley before discussing how the Army learned lessons from this tragedy, and took actions that not only ensured that there would be no more war crimes like My Lai, but also made the Army a more ethical and professional institution. The result is that fifty years after My Lai, some genuine good has come out of a very dark episode in U.S. Army history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nick Turse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In late 1969 Seymour Hersh broke the story of the 1968 My Lai massacre, during which US troops slaughtered more than 500 civilians in Quang Ngai Province, far north of the Delta. Some months later, in May 1970, a self-described \u201cgrunt\u201d who participated in Speedy Express wrote a confidential letter to William Westmoreland, then Army chief of staff, saying that the Ninth Division\u2019s atrocities amounted to \u201ca My Lay each month for over a year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interviews with My Lai Veterans<\/a><\/p>\n

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