That wasn't about to deter Calley, however. He didn't see people - only targets.
"We weren't in My Lai to kill human beings, really," he said later. "We were there to kill an ideology that is carried by - I don't know - pawns, blobs, pieces of flesh. I was there to destroy an intangible idea. To destroy communism. Killing those men in My Lai didn't haunt me."
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Thompson, who died last year, confronted Calley and urged him to stop the killing, but the Second Lieutenant refused to defer to his superior, saying: "Down here on the ground, I run the show."
>Навеяно календарем, оотуда в качестве краткой аннотации к английскому тексту:
> После чего Келли отдал приказ "прикончить их всех" (finish them off).
В статье, кстати, приводиться иная фраза:
With bayonet fixed, the young platoon leader instructed his men to round up everyone, regardless of their age or sex, and herd them into a partially filled, 5ft-deep irrigation ditch. "Take care of these people!" he barked.
