The My Lai Massacure Could Have Been Avoided

Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr. was guilty in the My Lai killings. Imagine, a family sitting on their front porch peacefully, making breakfast for their themselves. They see hundreds of people rushing at them, pointing guns at their heads. Firing, killing for no reason, just a assumption. Calley ordered his men to kill hundreds of innocent civilians before he knew anything about them. He broke the rules of war killing them. He used his men in killing civilians saying they are Vietcong. Vietcong are Vietnamese communists. He estimated 200 hundred Vietcong in My Lai, but he killed three hundred and five people. None, still to this day, are known to have been Vietcong.…