COLUMBUS, Ga. - Speaking in a soft, sometimes labored voice, the only U.S. Army officer convicted in the 1968 slayings of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai made an extraordinary public apology while speaking to a small group near the military base where he was court- martialed. There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai," William L. Calley told members of a local Kiwanis Club, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported Friday. "I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died early Friday. He was 62. Thompson, whose role in the 1968 massacre did not become widely known until decades later, died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Alexandria, hospital spokesman Jay DeWorth said.
We have been driving for three hours since we left Da Nang. My Lai is not on the tourist route. The roads are small. There is no airport nearby. No big cities to break up the ride. I'd thought about ditching it from my Vietnam itinerary; it would take up a whole day, one of only seven I had here, a ridiculously short time for such a fascinating country.
I'm of the view you can't torture anybody, whether they're criminals or not," says Burke, a 43-year-old mother of three who sports brown cowboy boots under her black dress slacks. "But these people are completely innocent. The people we've spoken to were all released without charge. There was nothing other than bad luck that got them picked up. And then they get tortured? It's just disgraceful. "They had a contract with the government, so therefore they should be entitled to something called the 'government contractor defense,'" Burke explains. "You're not liable because the government wouldn't be liable. The government has a lot of immunity from tort suits. So if all you're doing essentially is acting as an arm of the government, then you have some immunity too." "Whenever you look a...
...'t have done, whether it's the My Lai massacre or the internment of the Japanese," says Burke. "A...
Oh God, just when we desperately need an angry Black man," quipped the reporter who stunned America and the world with the story of the My Lai Massacre in November 1969, during the Vietnam War. [...] Hersh's critique of the Obama administration's foreign policy was blunt and harsh. Hersh later returned to the subject of the psychological damage that soldiers experience as a result of the horrors of war, speaking at length about his work on the My Lai massacre story and some of the soldiers and family members he interviewed for articles about the massacre.
The Hollywood writers' strike that has halted production on scores of television shows appears to have delayed the start of director Oliver Stone's "Pinkville" - leaving the hopes of hundreds of Memphis would-be actors in limbo. More than 860 men auditioned Nov. 17 at FedExForum for "featured extra" soldier roles in "Pinkville," a My Lai massacre-inspired movie that was scheduled to start production in Southeast Asia in late December.
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