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In war, the dead people don't cry. The ones who are still alive do.

— William Calley Lieutenant Calley: His Own Story (1971)

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It's odd about war crimes. We seem to have tried people only if they've lost the war.

Lieutenant Calley: His Own Story (1971)

A village is the last damned place to RON: to remain overnight in. There would be Vietnamese all around us. Old mamasan might come with an AK-47 to show us whose hooch we were really in, with a VC battalion behind her.

Lieutenant Calley: His Own Story (1971)

Our job," Medina said, "is to go in rapidly and to neutralize everything. Kill everything." "Captain Medina? Do you mean women and children, too?" "I mean everything."

Lieutenant Calley: His Own Story (1971)

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