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MY LAI

On 16 March, 1968, in the hamlet of My Lai, Vietnam, U.S. soldiers of C Company 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children. The massacre prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced American support at home for the war in Vietnam. Lt William Calley, the unit’s platoon leader, was charged with several counts of premeditated murder in September 1969.

Several other officers and enlisted men were later charged with related crimes. Lt Calley alleged that he and his men had been ordered to commit the massacre by their Company Commander, Captain Ernest Medina.

Lt Calley was convicted in 1971 of premeditated murder in ordering the shootings and initially sentenced to life in prison. However, two days later President Richard Nixon ordered him released from prison, pending appeal of his sentence. Lt Calley served 3½ years of house arrest in his quarters at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was then ordered freed by a federal judge.

Captain Medina was acquitted of any wrongdoing during a highly publisized trial. See Medina, Mary McCarthy, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972, for a recounting of the trial of U.S. v. Medina and Mr. Myers's participation in it. Of then Captain Myers, Mary McCarthy wrote:

“Widmer’s (Captain Medina’s RTO and Captain Myers’ client) determination, in any case, was matched by that of his defender, who appeared in the courtroom like some uncompromising puritan angel, wearing full regulation uniform that stood out dark and trim against the summer tans of military counsel and the M.P.’s on guard. Gary Myers was the Aubrey Daniel (Lt Calley’s prosecutor) of the Medina case. One could imagine him as belonging to that idealistic cell of young lawyers in JAG who had argued for a Nuremberg-style war-crimes trial.” Pg. 51.

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