{"id":32865,"date":"2013-08-19T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=32865"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:57","slug":"march-16-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/08\/march-16-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"March 16, 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day the United States<br \/>\nkilled itself<br \/>\n504 Vietnamese also died.<br \/>\nThe My Lai peasants<br \/>\ndied their deaths in ditches,<br \/>\nwhile Charlie Company<br \/>\nof the 11th Light Infantry Brigade,<br \/>\nand their nation,<br \/>\ndied a self-inflicted death<br \/>\nin the eyes of the world.<\/p>\n<p>One soldier, Michael Bernhardt,<br \/>\nrefused to join in the killing.<br \/>\nThree soldiers, Hugh Thompson,<br \/>\nLawrence Colburn and Glenn Andreotta,<br \/>\nlanded their helicopter and stopped the killing.<br \/>\nRon Ridenhour collected reports<br \/>\nand got the story out.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. William Calley took the rap;<br \/>\nsentenced to life at hard labor<br \/>\non 22 counts of premeditated murder,<br \/>\nhe served three years<br \/>\nunder house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, as McNamara wrote,<br \/>\nmistakes were made.<br \/>\nLike bodies falling into a ditch,<br \/>\nthus proceeds<br \/>\nthe decline of great nations.<br \/>\n______________________<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Tom Greening:<\/b><\/em><em> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\" >www.tomgreening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day the United States<br \/>\nkilled itself<br \/>\n504 Vietnamese also died.<br \/>\nThe My Lai peasants<br \/>\ndied their deaths in ditches,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}