The people who said it were the six officers in the United States Army. The very people who sent him there and told him to do it. The very people who were still doing it that day in Vietnam. Calley never felt that he was the fall guy. I mean, that s what the Army s like.
Life isn t fair.
The Army isn t fair. Your company is retreating, the whole division is retreating, and they tell you, Lt. You say, yes sir. And you stay there, and you hold the enemy off as long as possible and you die. That s what you do in the Army.