It made the rounds here when I posted it this morning!
D’oh!!
Well, it’s an excerpt so nice, it needed to be posted twice.
Thanks. That’s a really excellent obituary.
Obligatory Simpsons vid:
10 posts were merged into an existing topic: OJ Simpson dead at 76
I moved most of the posts about OJ to their own thread.
https://community-new.goactuary.com/t/oj-simpson-dead-at-76/9252?u=lucy
This local mass murderer should qualify for this thread.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-serial-killer-robert-pickton-dead-following-prison-attack-1.6908969
Jim Inhofe can final determine how snow ball fare.
Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr. dead at age 80.
Leader of the 1968 My Lai massacre.
He died in April but his death was just made public. I read his Wikipedia; I hadn’t realized the extent to which public opinion had shifted… I grew up learning that he was the bad guy / the one who ordered the massacre.
I didn’t know this has happened:
I wonder how many people subsequently changed their minds. Calley himself did eventually express remorse.
I hesitated to put him in the BIH thread but I still remember the horror of the massacre from his trial proceedings. Others should have shared in the consequences is a reasonable view.
One of my American cousins was in the first wave of Marines in Vietnam and he was never the same after his tour of duty. Over half of his platoon either died in battle or from cancer at a young age (he was in the second category). It was an awful experience for everyone involved in that horrible war.
However the My Lai massacre was at another level. Calley was a bit of a scapegoat possibly but not an innocent.
He’s fitting for this thread. Yes he was thrown under the bus. But he also probably deserved to run over by it.
There is also the argument that we in the West are “better behaved” in warfare than many other countries. Thus, if we don’t punish our own bad behaviour, we can’t condemn other nations for theirs. Someone had to be punished for My Lai.
I am a bit cynical about the preceding view though as any war, by its nature, is going to have horrible incidents by both sides.