re: #136 Decatur Deb

Calley’s punishment consisted of a few months house arrest with his girlfriend in his BOQ, until a rabid Georgia Republican judge set aside his sentence. The trial was a throw-away.

And the helicopter pilot who stopped the massacre and reported it… was ostracized, harassed, a congressman told him to his face that he was the only person at mai lai who deserved to face charges…

en.wikipedia.org.

It took 30 years for him to be publicly recognized as the hero he was.