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"Im going to go over and get them out of the bunker myself. If the squad opens up on them, shoot em."
William CalleyIts odd about war crimes. We seem to have tried people only if theyve — William Calley
"Its odd about war crimes. We seem to have tried people only if theyve lost the war."
William Calley
William Calley
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William Laws Calley Jr. was a United States Army officer and war criminal, convicted by court-martial of the murder of 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. Calley was released to house arrest under orders by President Richard Nixon three days after his conviction. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
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"My name is William Calley, Im a soldier of this land Ive tried to do my duty and to gain the upper hand But they`ve made me out a villain they have stamped me with a brand As we go marching on"
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"In war, the dead people dont cry. The ones who are still alive do."
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"Calley was convicted, Nixon had made it easy on him, five hundred and four people were dead in Vietnam, it was a war crime, no one paid for it."
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"After all was said and done, in the effort to court-martial those who were responsible for the murder of five hundred and four Vietnamese civilians, and the coverup which followed, only one man was found guilty of anything whatsoever in a court of law."
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"A village is the last damned place to RON: to remain overnight in. There would be Vietnamese all around us. Old mamasan might come with an AK-47 to show us whose hooch we were really in, with a VC battalion behind her."
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