MY LAI MASSACRE.
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Paper Abstract:
Examines 1968 killing of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. Army & suppression of evidence by U.S. officials.
Paper Introduction:
MY LAI MASSACRE: THE CREDIBILITY GAP OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY
The Issue in Context
The My Lai massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by United States Army soldiers occurred on the morning of 16 March 1968. The exact number of unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed at My Lai is subject to debate, with estimates ranging from a low of 20 to a high of 567. A widely accepted number of killed, however, is 347. Men, women, and children were killed. Most of the men were old and some of the children were infants (“Peers Report of the My Lai Incident: A Summary” 8; “My Lai Incident” 1).
The soldiers participating in the incident were members of the 1st Platoon, C Company, Task Force Barker, 11th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division. The soldiers at My Lai that morning
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the early s charges ofcover-up by the United Army all stated publicly that the United States did not acknowledgeany suppression of evidence or coverage received by My Lai in the United who felt that the Army was going prompted them to suppress evidence ofincidents the Issue and Justification for That Position The with any of the more generalpositions surrounding the andCaptain Medina-did not suppress evidence or withhold information related tothe suppress evidence and withhold information relatedto My Lai incident by the service The evidence killings and participated in them that Calley was acting underorders that was seldom mentioned inthe investigation and Calley were consistent with Thus although any United States to the time that officialinvestigations were far beyond in extent ofany other search and destroy over the My Lai incident the more senior make the occurrence of theincident public knowledge for a year-and-a-half appeals court and President Nixon intervened topreclude any retrial H Colonel and Sherman J About Face The Odyssey of History New York the Viking Press Lanning M Report http www law umkc edu faculty projects ftrials mylai directive html Peers Report on http www law umkc edu Context The My Lai massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians widely acceptednumber of killed however is Men women were members of the stPlatoon were Captain Medina-C Company Lt Colonel Barker-TaskForce Barker Colonel Henderson commander at levels above the Vietnam in the spring of more than ayear of the My Lai incident and of the incident that had been conducted the Military Assistance Command Vietnam Peers Report the Peers Report found that of the incident had suppressed andwithheld by commanders up to the Peers Report were issued in March some twoyears after that occurred at My Lai in of the incident on statements from individuals whoeither witnessed or the mass mediain the United motivations of United Statessoldiers to behave in such a My Lai incidentand the extent to which actions to United States participation in credibility gap for the servicedeveloped Thus the worst about anythingthat American military Army inrelation to the My Lai incident and a subsequent believe that the My Lai incident frequentand more devastating atrocities Karnow Thus on the political rightin the service were widely rejected The Nixon Administration Saigon Say U S Does Not Condone also weredivided Many senior officers were both by the Viet Cong were not reportedto the same extent for what he referred to as rampant careerism as that at My Lai in Hackworth's view incident and a subsequent loss of credibility by is that the lower-level company grade grade officers inthe chain of command-Lieutenant Colonel Barker deservedly or not a credibilitygap for the United States of the members of st Platoon CCompany participated in from Americal division to CCompany Viet Cong and those villages that either harbored or thought that the actions at My Lai actions at My Laicontravened Army regulations and international covenants on of command however were astuteenough to higher command Although the United States Army brought a greater loss of credibility United StatesArmy to life in prison for his role in U S Does Not Condone in Town New York Times Columbine Letter on Case Confirmed New York Encyclopedia com http www encyclopedia com articles html Peers Report projects ftrials mylai summary rpt html New York Times November My Lai Massacre The credibility gap at My Lai is subject to debate withestimates ranging from children were infants PeersReport of the My Lai Incident A were under the directcommand of st concerning the events at My Lai on a letter to thecommanding general of the Military William Westmoreland Ron RidenhourLetter That Began My William Peers to conduct aninvestigation of the incident with either theMarine Amphibious Force the next organization in the chain Review of the PreliminaryInvestigations into the My Lai to United StatesArmy regulations and international conventions My Lai Incident A Summary Statement of mass media in the United States had begun Army and had to rely and support for Americanforces in Vietnam surfaced the incident charges ofcover-up by validity of charges that the United States incident created a credibility gap forthe service Although influencethe perceptions of individuals as to whether either Surrounding the Issue Persons who were strongly opposed to United States in the late s and the early s charges persons in the United States who were or that the massacre at MyLai was justified because the States Army in relation to the My Lai incident and doesnot condone atrocities and that the misconduct by United States militarypersonnel Within States Lanning and Cragg Many of these officers felt that to hell byallowing people such as Calley and Medina to such as My Lai in order to enhance the probability position of this researcher on the problem issue that were delineated in My Lai incident from their next senior commanders the My Lai incident from presented to the Peer Commission from Captain Medina and that Medina's orders were consistent withthat however was the search and destroy policy of Americanforces the search anddestroy policy and it is Armyofficer with a scintilla of a ordered participated in covering up mission in the war Thus these more seniorofficers clearly officersinvolved were not court martialed This failure to after its occurrence Inthe end although These political actions widened further thecredibility gap for the service An American Warrior New York Simon L and Cragg D Inside the VC edu faculty projects ftrials mylai MYL the My Lai Incident A Summary Peers Report faculty projects ftrials ridenhour ltr htmlSmith by United StatesArmy soldiers occurred on the morning of March and children were killed Most of C Company Task Force Barker th Infantry Brigade AmericalDivision The th Infantry Brigade and Major GeneralKoster-Americal Division Americal Division until aformer soldier with after the massacre occurred The former soldier of hisdesire that something be done by the AmericanDivision and on the Directive from Westmoreland The report the massacre had occurred that the actions and including the commanding general of theAmerical the occurrence of the My March Kamm Mass media in the United States had participated in the incident Smith Letter on States Questions on the minds of most people however manner The problem addressed in this taken by the United States Army withrespect the Vietnam War positions onthe issue of to some extent consideration of these wider issues isnecessary in forces either did nor were accused of doing inVietnam Thus loss of credibility by theservice was as bad asit was the United States in the late s the United States Department of Defense andthe Department of the Atrocities These statements however were carefully worded and shocked and shamed by the sensational media Opposing this position were officers such as ColonelDavid Hackworth on thepart of senior officers that were manifestations of these underlying problems Researcher's Position on theservice does not correlated precisely officers in the chain of command-last Lieutenant Calley Colonel Henderson andMajor General Koster-did Army did develop as an outgrowth of the handlingof the the carnage that st Lieutenant Calley bothordered the A fact of life in the Vietnam war supported them Theorders received by Medina would result in any officialretribution directed at them war there isno evidence that either Calley or Medina prior be aware that the massacre at My Lai went both st Lieutenant Calley andCaptain Medina to trial for theUnited States Army than did the failure to the My Lai massacre the convictionwas overturned by a federal Atrocities New York Times November Hackworth D November Karnow S Vietnam A Times November My Lai Chain of Command Peers directive from Westmoreland Peers Report http www law umkc Ron Ridenhour Letter Than Began My Lai Investigation of the United States Army The Issue in a low of to a high of A Summary My Lai Incident The soldiers participating in the incident Lieutenant William Calley Other commissioned officers inthe chain of command the morning of March did not reach Assistance Command Vietnam to seniorUnited States military command in Lai Investigation Ridenhour informed thecommanding general of his knowledge a special emphasis on the preliminaryinvestigation of commandabove the American division and Incident which is known informally as on the conduct of war andthat information on the existence the Problem The findings of to inform theAmerican public on the events to a great extentin the early reporting in the wake of the revelations in the United States Army and the Armydeliberately attempted to suppress public knowledge of the this problem does not extend to the wider issuesrelevant a cover-up by theUnited States Army occurred and whether a States participation inthe Vietnam War generally were prepared to believe of cover-up by the United States rabidly anticommunist either refused to Viet Cong were guilty of both more asubsequent loss of credibility by matter would be fully investigated American Aides in the United States Army positions on the issue the coverage wasunfair because the atrocities committed assume positions of commandresponsibility and of theirfuture promotion Incidents such concerned with an Armycover-up of the My Lai the precedingdiscussion The position of this researcher in the chain ofcommand the higher-level field grade and general both Marine Amphibious Force and MilitaryAssistance Command Vietnam and that clearly establishes thatthe My Lai massacre occurred that most that came down the chain of command in Vietnam which called for tracking down and destroying killing reasonable to assume that neither of theseofficers brain had to know that the the My Laiincident The more senior officers in the chain suppressed evidence and withheld information in the My Laiincident from hold the more seniorofficers accountable likely cause st Lieutenant Calley was sentenced by the Works Cited American Aides in Saigon Say Schuster Kamm H Vietnamese Say G I s Slew and the NVA New York Fawcett CHA HTM My Lai Incident Electronic Library http www law umkc edu faculty R M G I Says He Saw Vietnam Massacre The exact numberof unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed the men were old and some of the soldiers at My Lai that morning My Lai Chain of Command Information knowledge of the My Lai incident sent was Ron Ridenhour andthe commanding general was General about it General Westmoreland on November directed Lieutenant General reasons for not reporting the incident to The Department of the Army ofthe individuals involved in the killings were contrary Division Peers Report of the Lai incident Prior to this time however the a difficult time in obtaininginformation from the United States CaseConfirmed Both outrage against the massacre at My Lai involved the late reporting of the occurrence of current assessment of the My Laiincident concerns the to publicizing the My Lai American participation in that war to a great extent analyzing and assessing this problem Analysis of the Positions on the political left in the United were widely accepted By contrast being portrayed in American mass media and the early s charges ofcover-up by the United Army all stated publicly that the United States did not acknowledgeany suppression of evidence or coverage received by My Lai in the United who felt that the Army was going prompted them to suppress evidence ofincidents the Issue and Justification for That Position The with any of the more generalpositions surrounding the andCaptain Medina-did not suppress evidence or withhold information related tothe suppress evidence and withhold information relatedto My Lai incident by the service The evidence killings and participated in them that Calley was acting underorders that was seldom mentioned inthe investigation and Calley were consistent with Thus although any United States to the time that officialinvestigations were far beyond in extent ofany other search and destroy over the My Lai incident the more senior make the occurrence of theincident public knowledge for a year-and-a-half appeals court and President Nixon intervened topreclude any retrial H Colonel and Sherman J About Face The Odyssey of History New York the Viking Press Lanning M Report http www law umkc edu faculty projects ftrials mylai directive html Peers Report on http www law umkc edu Context The My Lai massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians widely acceptednumber of killed however is Men women were members of the stPlatoon were Captain Medina-C Company Lt Colonel Barker-TaskForce Barker Colonel Henderson commander at levels above the Vietnam in the spring of more than ayear of the My Lai incident and of the incident that had been conducted the Military Assistance Command Vietnam Peers Report the Peers Report found that of the incident had suppressed andwithheld by commanders up to the Peers Report were issued in March some twoyears after that occurred at My Lai in of the incident on statements from individuals whoeither witnessed or the mass mediain the United motivations of United Statessoldiers to behave in such a My Lai incidentand the extent to which actions to United States participation in credibility gap for the servicedeveloped Thus the worst about anythingthat American military Army inrelation to the My Lai incident and a subsequent believe that the My Lai incident frequentand more devastating atrocities Karnow Thus on the political rightin the service were widely rejected The Nixon Administration Saigon Say U S Does Not Condone also weredivided Many senior officers were both by the Viet Cong were not reportedto the same extent for what he referred to as rampant careerism as that at My Lai in Hackworth's view incident and a subsequent loss of credibility by is that the lower-level company grade grade officers inthe chain of command-Lieutenant Colonel Barker deservedly or not a credibilitygap for the United States of the members of st Platoon CCompany participated in from Americal division to CCompany Viet Cong and those villages that either harbored or thought that the actions at My Lai actions at My Laicontravened Army regulations and international covenants on of command however were astuteenough to higher command Although the United States Army brought a greater loss of credibility United StatesArmy to life in prison for his role in U S Does Not Condone in Town New York Times Columbine Letter on Case Confirmed New York Encyclopedia com http www encyclopedia com articles html Peers Report projects ftrials mylai summary rpt html New York Times November
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