If he ever does die in our lifetimes (probably) I bet his final will and testament will be full of whining about his hate for Metallica and other metal bands.

Calley actually died on April 28, but it wasn’t reported.

Some of the more embarrassing excerpts from his Wikipedia article:

“Many in the United States were outraged by what they perceived to be an overly harsh sentence for Calley. Georgia’s Governor, Jimmy Carter, future President of the United States, instituted American Fighting Man’s Day, and asked Georgians to drive for a week with their lights on.[34]”

CARTER?!? Really? Good Lord.

“Indiana’s Governor Edgar Whitcomb asked that all state flags be flown at half-staff for Calley, and the governors of Utah and Mississippi also publicly disagreed with the verdict.[34] The legislatures of Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, New Jersey, and South Carolina requested clemency for Calley.[34] Alabama’s governor, George Wallace, visited Calley in the stockade and requested that President Richard Nixon pardon him. After the conviction, the White House received over 5,000 telegrams; the ratio was 100 to 1 in favor of leniency.[35] In a telephone survey of the U.S. public, 79 percent disagreed with the verdict, 81 percent believed that the life sentence Calley had received was too stern, and >69 percent believed Calley had been made a scapegoat.[35]”

And they say this country is getting stupider.

“Nixon received so many telegrams from Americans requesting clemency or a pardon for William Calley that he remarked to Henry Kissinger, “Most people don’t give a shit whether he killed them or not.”[36] “

And that remark had to be made to KISSINGER. Good lord.

“Men in his platoon reported to Army investigators that Calley lacked common sense and could not read a map or compass properly.”

Our best and brightest!!

“Calley’s original defense, that the death of the villagers was the result of an accidental airstrike, was overcome by prosecution witnesses”

“The result of an accidental airstrike” - Yep, piles of people dead in ditches with photographic evidence would have borne that one out.

“On his death certificate, a question asking if he had ever served “in U.S. armed forces,” was marked with a “no”.”

He couldn’t even tell the truth about his own death!!