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' Linder Meadlo Lai Courts Martial Soldiers
1,385 words... warfare if a soldier believes an order to be unjust and / or illegal then they do not have to carry it out and they must report it to a higher authority. Most of the soldiers did not remember learning of this rule or basically any of the rules. In fact only two hours total was spent on training soldiers of prisoner's rights. Their training was learning to fight not how to treat the enemy justly. LT Calley claims he was simply carrying out the orders of CPT Medina by massacring a large group ...
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Southwest Windpower Inc Part 1
2,085 wordsSouthwest Windpower Inc. History Southwest Windpower Inc. was founded in Arizona in 1987 by David Calley and Andy Kruse, who were able to recognize business opportunities, related to manufacturing wind-power electrical turbines, intended to be used on individual basis. In 1986, Calley invented a 300 watt wind generator, called Windseeker, which Southwest Windpower Inc. began producing in 1987, to address the demand for such generators in predominantly rural areas. The production of Windseeker co...
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Women And Children Court Martial
1,506 wordsFrom a public relations standpoint, My Lai serves as one of the most damaging occurrences of the last century for the U. S. A. Almost anything related to the event, from the actual attack, to the following cover up, paints the U. S. A. in a negative light. Because of the nature of the events of March 16 th, My Lai received widespread coverage, such as the cover of LIFE magazine, to mention only one. The world, not only the U. S. A. , heard vivid details emerge as the trials of many of the men in...
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Matter Of Fact Charlie Company
986 wordsMy Lai 4 A History Class Book Report On March 16, 1968, Charlie Company was sent into a small VietCong village called (by the U. S. ) My Lai 4. Their instructions by commanding officers were: kill every man, woman, child and animal the village. Burn all the homes. nothing should be walking, growing or crawling. Orders were followed, and as I read the first 65 pages of this book, I was exposed to the detailed death of 306 civilians, mostly women, small children, and old people. There was no threa...
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U S Army Life In Prison
1,147 wordsThe My Lai Massacre On March 16, 1968 a terrible massacre occurred at My Lai, called The My Lai Massacre. The following massacre should have never happened and the event s that followed the massacre are typical of any American wrongdoing. That s why it wasn t in my US History book. They covered it up and the people involved in the massacre received no punishment except for one soldier. My US History book: The Story of America Volume 2 doesn t even touch on this dark moment in US history. The clo...
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Body Count Isn T
857 wordsThis story starts out with Calley talking about his trial. He receives orders and a plane ticket and was told he was going to Washington, D. C. In Washington Calley is met and questioned the Chief of Staff. He later finds out that he s being questioned for murder at My Lai 4. Word gets out to the media about his actions and he receives loads and loads of letters. He received many letters from past war veterans supporting his actions in My Lai. At the same time he received just as many letters ca...
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Events That Took Place Found Guilty
1,516 wordsAmerican troops landed in Vietnam in the spring of 1965; that was probably the biggest mistake the United States of America have made in its 200 plus years of existence. As a result, the countrys concern turned towards, next to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, mostly in favor of it, but some against it. For the first time ever, America saw daily reports, footage, broadcasts on television of the reality of the war. The images presented at first, along with some carefully prepared li...
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