My Lai
We had a saying in the Air Force, when I served in 1968: “Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
The massacre at My Lai and the subsequent investigation (cover-up) and trial only convince me of the truth in that saying, 30 years later.
DOUGLAS HERMAN
Staff Sgt., USAF (Ret).
Santa Monica
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