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1. Jay Roberts, “Press Release dated March 1968” in
My Lai: Brief History with Documents
edited by James S. Olson and Randy Roberts (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 1998), 27.
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2. Michael Bilton and Kevin Sims.
Four Hours in My Lai
(New York: Viking, 1992), 53.
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3. Ibid., 53.
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4. Peter Tauber.
The Sunshine Soldiers
(Higganum, CT: Higganum Hill Books, 1971), 37.
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5. Ibid., 37.
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6. Ibid., 37.
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7. Ibid., 38.
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8. Ibid., 39.
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9. Ibid., 71.
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10. Ibid., 43.
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11. Ibid., 55.
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12. Ibid., 123.
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13. Ibid., 84.
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14. Ibid., 132.
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15. Bilton and Sims, 50-51.
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16. Ibid., 52-53.
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17. After the My Lai incident, General William Peers was assigned to fully investigate the matter. His investigative body becomes known as the Peers Commission.
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18. Ibid., 52.
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19. In Olson and Roberts, 36.
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20. Ibid., 41.
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21. Bilton and Sims, 55.
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22. Tauber, 77.
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23. Tim O’Brien.
The Things They Carried
(New York: Broadway Books, 1990), 32.
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24. Peers Commission.
Report
in
My Lai: A Brief History with Documents
(Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 1998), 45.
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25. Michael Walzer.
Just and Unjust Wars
(New York: Basic Books, 1977), 176.
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26. Ibid., 176.
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27. Ibid., 184.
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28. Karen Gottschang Turner.
Even the Women Must Fight
(New York: John Wiley and Sons), 100-102
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29. Ibid., 73.
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30. Olson and Roberts.
My Lai: A Brief History
, 17-18.
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31. Ibid., 18.
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32. Ibid., 20.
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33. Ibid., 21-23.
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34. Bilton and Sims, 135.
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35. Ibid., 135.
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36. Ibid., 135-136.
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37. Ibid., 138-141.
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38. Ibid., 141.
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39. Facing History and Ourselves.
Holocaust and Human Behavior
, 210.
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40. Bilton and Sims, 103-104.
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41. Ibid., 124.
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42. Ibid., 124.
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43. Ibid., 133.
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44. Olson and Roberts, 22.