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Lt. Cally was convicted, but pardoned by Nixon before doing any time. Interestingly enough, Colin Powell was in charge of the military's unsuccessful whitewash/cover up of the incident. The government tried to suppress all information and images of My Lai at the time, and if it wasn't for the heroic efforts of Ron Ridenhour to get the story out, we wouldn't even know about it.
Pentagon papers, My Lai, Deep Throat, Abu Graib...you don't need to explain to us why you are publishing, you will always be doing the right thing when bringing any important information to the light of public scrutiny...even when it is hurtful to our national pride.
