As Afghans lay sleeping
It’s not quite My Lai but it is a nightmare nonetheless. An American soldier, reportedly suffering a mental breakdown, has killed Afghan civilians as they lay sleeping.
When Lt. Calley and his men lined up a village of women and children and executed them at point-blank range, nobody claimed the Great Satan was involved. The Vietnamese understood Lt. Calley to be a basket case. Not that they dismissed what he did. No. That happened when he and the others involved were tried in a military court at Ft. Benning, Georgia — the military base in my hometown.
I grew up under the cloud of Lt. Calley, ashamed and silent, keenly aware of the public debate about Vietnam, and as I heard hundreds of time throughout my life — what a shame my father died in such a wasteful war.
Just as now, thousands of children whose fathers and mothers have died in Congress’s wrongly-conceived War on Terror will wake to the news that a U. S. Serviceman has gone apeshit and murdered families in their own homes.
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