I can still hear them. He was just 19 years old. It was his third day in combat. It is easy to point the finger at soldiers like Daily who were simply following orders. Scapegoating the soldiers who actually participated in the shootings ignores the people in charge who actually issued these orders.
War is filled with atrocities.
We can't do a damn thing about them to change what has already happened. But we can certainly learn lessons from history so that similar incidents don't occur in the future. The only way that we can do this, however, is by investigating the facts of these atrocities, not ignoring them or waiting half a century before we investigate.