Trump pardons frmr. US Army lieutenant convicted of killing a suspected al Qaeda terrorist

We have to be sure that when we speak "war crimes (aka Crimes Against Humanity)" we consider how Nuremberg defined "war crimes with regard to the language of crimes against humanity". When we think of Hitler, PolPot, Stalin, Mao, etc. we have to be very careful at we don't place our service members in the same category, unless their is a level of proof that places them in the same tier as that kind of evil.

During Vietnam our nation was exposed to the Lt William Calli situation. As a Navy guy, before I became a "navy guy", I found the issues surrounding this Army guy and his Courts Martial was very interesting to watch then and review now. Here is some selected interesting readings:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley
- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/08/william_calley_makes_first_pub.html
- https://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/1968-stories/my-lai-where-are-they-now-1.516984
- https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/03/09/50-years-after-my-lai-what-learned-representing-lt-calley/401063002/
- https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/my-lai-massacre-1

I am quite sure POTUS remembers My Lai. Frankly, the CoC failed Lt. Cailey, especially Maj Medina, in not accepting partial responsibility and getting off scot-free. I always felt Medina hung Calley out to dry and that remembrance of his actions always caused me to make sure I documented well during my naval career.

In any event, there are bad apples and they should be punished, yet in reading the accounts of yet another Army Lt the CoC was willing to hang him out to dry, especially after forensics proved his story was true, but this evidence was apparently swept under the carpet to "appease whoever." Again, we have to make sure we train our war fighters well and they maintain the morale and ethical high ground, but when they are the very instruments of abuse we would not otherwise tolerate discipline is the order of the day, when and only when - it is just! Otherwise, the justice deployed resembles a kind of "mob justice" designed to exonerate the CoC from not keeping an EYE on their team.

I use to believe there was no "I" in TEAM, until a friend shared this graphic below to correct my thinking. He said, "Nate, of course there is an 'Eye' in team. Let me show you." "Okay, show me!"

Well, it was a good schooling! LoL All this to say all of us have to keep an "Eye" on things to make sure the just are not treated unjustly!

Excellent news share brother Danny.

Good news.