Friday, August 21, 2009
Calley Apologizes For My Lai Massacre During Vietnam War
From McClatchy News:
William Calley, the former Army lieutenant convicted on 22 counts of murder in the infamous My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, publicly apologized for the first time this week while speaking in Columbus.
"There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai," Calley told members of the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus on Wednesday. His voice started to break when he added, "I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry."
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My Comment: I was 8 at the time, but I can still vividly remember how upset my elementary school teachers were at that time. It has been 41 years since the massacre .... but it still haunts (on some level) the American psyche.
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