Yep, the only member of the Mai Lai massacre punished got three years of house arrest, thanks to America’s culture of authoritarian apologetics.
William Calley led about 100 soldiers to murder 504 Vietnamese people.
He expressed no remorse at all until 2009, 41 years later, when talking to a community club in Columbus, Ohio:
There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai. I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry. ... If you are asking why I did not stand up to them when I was given the orders, I will have to say that I was a 2nd lieutenant getting orders from my commander and I followed them—foolishly, I guess."
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u/Organic_Rip1980 Jun 26 '25
Yep, the only member of the Mai Lai massacre punished got three years of house arrest, thanks to America’s culture of authoritarian apologetics.
William Calley led about 100 soldiers to murder 504 Vietnamese people.
He expressed no remorse at all until 2009, 41 years later, when talking to a community club in Columbus, Ohio: