A Presidential Pardon

Today is Friday, 28 December 2012.

Congratulations to my Friend and her husband, married 32 years ago today.

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On 16 March 1968, American troops under the direct command of Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. conducted the My Lai Massacre, exterminating more than 500 Vietnamese civilians.  Calley was court-martialed and sentenced to life at hard labor in 1971.

Calley “served” his appeal time under house arrest in an apartment at Fort Benning, rather than in prison.  He received a limited Presidential Pardon in 1974.  He then vanished into obscurity, employed by his father-in-law at his jewelry shop in Columbus, Georgia.

Please ponder this, as I will soon make a proposal concerning a Presidential Pardon.