Ernest Schaal wrote:

> in article 4176437B.2672E84A@yahoo.co.jp, Eric Takabayashi at
> etakajp@yahoo.co.jp wrote on 10/20/04 7:52 PM:
>
> > So why don't Americans hate Americans who commit atrocities, demanding the
> > same be done to them as those darn Japs? (eg, recall handling of My Lai
> > Massacre) Why are they not as angry about American wrongdoing being covered
> > up? Why don't we teach such as _War Without Mercy_ or _Embracing Defeat_ in
> > all schools to show the darker side of the US and the human side of the
> > Japanese, during and after WWII? Why does survey show even American ignorance
> > of the A-bombings (or the reasons for them) is on the increase?
>
> I don't know of any Americans who were not angry about the My Lai Massacre.

Then you should try knowing about five minutes' reading more.

http://tinyurl.com/6fov6

"Charlie Company met no resistance; there were no Viet Cong soldiers at My Lai.
Calley then ordered the slaughter of the civilians. People were rounded up into
ditches and machine-gunned. They lay five feet deep in the ditches; any survivors
trying to escape were immediately shot. When Calley spotted a baby crawling away
from a ditch, he grabbed her, threw her back into the ditch, and opened fire. Some
of the dead were mutilated by having 'C Company' carved into their chests; some
were disemboweled. One GI would later say, 'You didn't have to look for people to
kill, they were just there. I cut their throats, cut off their hands, cut out
their tongues, scalped them. I did it. A lot of people were doing it and I just
followed. I just lost all sense of direction.'"

[snip]

"Coverup of the massacre began immediately. Reports on the My Lai operation stated
that it was a stunning combat victory against a Viet Cong stronghold. Stars and
Stripes, the army newspaper, ran a feature story applauding the courage of the
American soldiers who had risked their lives. Even General William Westmoreland
sent a personal congratulatory note to Charlie Company. An initial investigation
into My Lai was swift and definitive: My Lai was a combat operation in which
twenty civilians had accidentally been killed."

http://tinyurl.com/p75b

"If not for the determined efforts of a twenty-two-year-old ex-GI from Phoenix,
Ronald Ridenhour, what happened on March 16, 1968 at My Lai 4 may never have come
to the attention of the American people. Ridenhour served in a reconnaissance unit
in Duc Pho, where he heard five eyewitness accounts of the My Lai massacre. He
began his own investigation, traveling to Americal headquarters to confirm that
Charlie Company had in fact been in My Lai on the date reported by his witnesses.
Ridenhour was shocked by what he learned [RIDENHOUR'S STORY]. When he was
discharged in December, 1968, Ridenhour said 'I wanted to get those people. I
wanted to reveal what they did. My God, when I first came home, I would tell my
friends about this and cry-literally cry.' In March, 1969, Ridenhour composed a
letter detailing what he had heard about the My Lai massacre [LINK TO LETTER] and
sent it to President Nixon, the Pentagon, the State Department, the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, and numerous members of Congress. Most recipients simply ignored the
letter, but a few, most notably Representative Morris Udall, aggressively pushed
for a full investigation of Ridenhour's allegations."

[snip]

"Reaction to the reports of the massacre varied. Some politicians, such as House
Armed Services Subcommittee Chair L. Mendel Rivers maintained that there was no
massacre and that reports to the contrary were merely attempts to build opposition
to the Viet Nam war. Others called for an open, independent inquiry. The
Administration took a middle course, deciding on a closed-door investigation by
the Pentagon, headed by William Peers, a blunt three-star general."

You really should know more, lawyer.

Your own reaction, please. If not for the efforts of ONE MAN, it could have been
covered up forever. Note: it took ONE YEAR for Ridenhour to make his claim.

Please tell me more about how all Americans in your pathetically limited knowledge
are angry. Are you ignorant, or are you lying, or are you exaggerating?

Did this work for you in court? Is this why you are not in criminal law?

Next, contemplate what the general public (or you) does NOT know about what was
done in Vietnam, even just in other villages in the area around My Lai.

http://tinyurl.com/3bkbk