A little Mormon boy in Utah, Timmy Poppleton, wrote his senator begging him to intervene: "I'm only eight years old, but I know that Lieut. Calley was defending our freedoms against Communism." His mother--many mothers--had explained that the villagers of My Lai must have done something to deserve it.
My inner Frenchman read Perlstein's book on Goldwater. He says it was incredible.
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We'll try dumping haloscan and see how it works.