Sarah Dessen Quotes

A number of the American soldiers refused to obey Calley's illegal order. Some helped some villagers to escape, and a helicopter pilot landed betreen Callery's men and the villagers they were shooting at, and ordered his helicopter machine gun crew to fire on the soldiers if they did back off. The soldiers stopped firing at the civillians. However, his and other reports of the massacre were covered up by the military for a few years. Mai Lai was not the only major war crime perpetrated by Americans in the Vietnam War; there had been a few others. But given the years of fighting and the many opportunities war crimes violations under orders were quite rare. The Viet Cong had many more war crimes that they perpetrated, and our South Vietnamese allies repeatedly committed war crimes against their own people.

Many have speculated that this personal grudge may have been one of the motivating factors leading Bush to his disastrous Iraq War decisions.

Instructions to followers in revolting against the mulattoes

La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.

Dornan’s close friend Congressman Randy Duke Cunningham had insulted and attacked ethnic Irish Congressman Jim Moran. The two ended up getting physical with Cunningham clearly getting the worst of it. Dornan came to the defense of fellow right wing extremist Cunningham and fortunately was restrained. Moran had been a skilled boxer and still retained much of his skill. Cunningham, went to jail as the most corrupt congressman in American history. Dornan adopted a very low profile as he had been one of the unknowing enablers of Cunningham’s corruption.

Carter beat Kennedy in the Primaries bit lost to Ronald Reagan in the General Election.

The Congressman was not even chastised by the House of Representatives.

See {639177}.for part of the article. Platt even demanded of President Roosevelt that the Journalist, White, be barred from the White House. Actually White was a very good friend of Roosevelt’s and generally agreed with White’s assessment of Platt.